Those of you with a Pool at home / in your Apartment / building, How often do you actually end up using it ?
I understand the answer may vary with location and weather but just trying to get a pulse to see if it's worth it as a criteria and if we'll end up using it.
Any other comments around pool heating or use welcome.
Twice a year. If I'm at home and the temperature is over 35.
I went to have a look at the pool in the apartment complex on the day I came in to do the rental inspection. It's been over 3 years and I have never been back to the pool.
I use my pool most of the year till the ducks migrate .
Repeat when they come back .
Kids use it all the time. Almost daily during summer. Usually late November until March - or this year mucking around with kayak during the lockdown. Definitely worth it for kids, especially once they are old enough to swim with minimal supervision.
Doesn’t take a lot of maintenance as we don’t have a lot of trees around and our auto pool cleaner works well. Get the water tested semi regularly, 3-4 weeks and it usually takes some sort of treatment.
A big buying decision for my cousin was buying a stand alone house with a Pool. His kiddos use it often as the warmer months roll in.
I think the extra amenities in apartment blocks like pools, gyms, community areas like bbqs, community rooms etc are nice to have but I would say I would seldom use them, only on occasion. If you own an apartment, the extra costs annually with your Body Corp adds up. I think most people would use a pool if they own it, rather sharing a tiny arse lap pool with 100+ apartment blocks.
Don’t use it often, but love to be in the backyard and look at it. Makes the yard look great. It’s not all about use.
Our’s is 14 years old was put in as soon as we moved into new home, it’s a feature of one side of our back yard, windows, doors open out to it, all rocks, garden around it with some coloured concrete. Can see it from family, kitchen,lounge rooms, it’s only like 3m from our big undercover patio. Big inground fold out umbrella. Used alot when kids were little and now they are teens too with friends, Xmas school holidays get a lot of visitors too.
Swapped from salt to magnesium about 4 years ago which is excellent, use a zodiac robot and get water checked at my local pool shop ever since we got it.
North coast nsw.
Thanks for the lovely details and painting a picture
Lived almost 10 years at a complex that had one. Of that decade, there was almost two summers worth of kids using it maybe 5-10x /week!, with an odd sprinkling of spring time swimming. BUUUUT that was it - Never repeated again. Personally, I think I used it less than 5x. The wife, once.
I remember these details because I bring them up whenever the wife starts thinking "maybe we should get a pool…"
Nowadays, I swim in the local athletic pool pretty much every other day, but would NOT EVEN CONSIDER getting a pool ourselves on our property. I consider it a literal hole in the ground to throw money in.
That’s exactly what I’m thinking
I remember these details because I bring them up whenever the wife starts thinking "maybe we should get a pool…"
Had a pool installed at my last house. It was great while my son was still at home, especially during his school years as he'd bring friends home to swim in the pool and it got a lot of use over summer. Once he moved out I had a wet hole in the yard that needed constant (costly) maintenance. (Also rainbow lorikeets were forever feeding off fermented fruit from the umbrella tree and falling, drunk, into the pool. They were literally pissed as parrots).
When looking for my current home I prioritised air conditioning over a pool. Best choice for me..
When I lived with parents It was used daily by Mum & Dad from November - April. I'd use it a few times a week. It was unused 6 months of the year.
My in-laws had pool solar so they got an extra 2 -3 months use but they were hardy folk and liked the cold.
When I had my house I studiously blocked any ideas of a pool as it costs a fortune to maintain (time, electricity, chemicals). There was a public pool nearby and a beach 20 minutes up the road.
Lol haven't swam in my parents pool for 15 years or so. Have a pool now as well and never swam in it. Ready depends whether you or your family are the swimming type or not
Should add, we occasionally use it on winter. Makes a great ice bath for tired legs after a hard workout. Haven’t gone to full immersion yet but our sports don’t involve a lot of arm work.
In an apartment block with shared pool and I've never used it. I rarely see people who do which makes me wonder its worth a lot of the time. I feel people with a shared pool apartment to be less likely to use it then at home pool.
What is the cost per year to maintain an avg size pool (Perth)?
In Summer(Melb), our pool gets used daily.
We have Solar pool heating, so pool probably gets used about 4+ months of the year, depending on the weather.