I want a pool.....what does it really cost??

[sjams]

I want to put in a pool, inground, in our back yard and I am wondering what the cost would really be to do this? I want to do the salt system too!!

Any advice??


ps...I DO NOT want an above ground one as I have done this and I hated it!!

 

[The Mayor]

When we put ours in about 15 years ago it cost about $30,000...and that was with all the landcaping.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I priced it and including everything...all that stuff they don't include with the first price...every single thing down to the penny it was around $100,000. I wanted a good sized pool, though, that started at 3 and went to 12 feet, including all the equipment (we have none) and cement and fence and EVERYTHING.

DH said No. I'll try again in ten years when the kids are out of college.

 

[lillygator]

We had ours put in last year....paver deck no screen, no fence (yet) it has two waterfalls and a hot tub. The salt system navigator, etc. It was $45k.

 

[lillygator]

if I had to do it again, I would get a new kitchen instead.

 

[DawnCt1]

When we put ours in about 15 years ago it cost about $30,000...and that was with all the landcaping.

I think that was when we had ours put in and our costs were in that ball park. We had to have some trees taken down, but that's not unusual. Since then we have replaced the heater, replaced the pump and filter, had some tiles repaired around the spa and spent an additional $800 to replace some fence posts. There are always additional things that pop up. I love my pool and I am happy when we open it....and then I am happy when we close it. I wish our season was longer, We generally use it from May 20th or so until the end of September and then I am done. It gets too cold and I am too cheap to heat the entire pool.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Just put one in last year here in Flower Mound.

Pool/Spa w/ deck was 42,000.
Fence, sod, irrigation totaled up to 50,000.
No landscaping yet, we did plant flowers and a couple of trees.
No lighting either.

We have the salt system, but Missypie here had a salt or chlorine system put in. I wish I would have looked in to that.

We got the textured decking but it is kind of slippery. I don't know if I would get that again even though it looks pretty.

Stone...I wish we would have done stone instead of tiles around the lip. The stones bleed onto the tiles and now we have to clean them.

Lights...wish we would have added more lights in the pool.

 

[lillygator]

I forgot to add:
$3k for electrical issues
$5k for sewer to be moved....

and I am sure there are countless others as well.

 

[ducklite]

We're looking into it and after talking to some of our neighbors, we're looking at about $80K for a gunite pool, spa, heater, tiled deck, moving existing landscaping and irrigation and adding additional landscaping, pool enclosure with golf ball resistant screen, solar cover and solar panels, a removable safety fence, and all the associated materials and labor.

Anne

 

[Liberty Belle]

There goes my dream of owning a pool. We're actually shopping for houses...I think I'll look more closely at the ones with pools already.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

if I had to do it again, I would get a new kitchen instead.

That's what I am doing, pool or kitchen, went with kitchen.

 

[DVC-Don]

In 1995 for a 16X32 inground pool we paid about $30,000. This includes the pool, water, concrete apron, fence, filter, heater & a screened gazebo.

 

[PghLybrt]

Depends where you live. We sell a inground kit for $5,999.00. (There are lots of do it yourselfers out there.)
Most of the cost is labor and insurance. In the northeast you should realistically be looking around 25-35 installed.

 

[sjams]

Depends where you live. We sell a inground kit for $5,999.00. (There are lots of do it yourselfers out there.)
Most of the cost is labor and insurance. In the northeast you should realistically be looking around 25-35 installed.

Can you explain the "kit"? How would you even go about doing an inground pool yourself? That seems a bit much even for an experienced do-it-yourselfer doesn't it???

 

[PghLybrt]

Can you explain the "kit"? How would you even go about doing an inground pool yourself? That seems a bit much even for an experienced do-it-yourselfer doesn't it???

The kit is the walls, plumbing, equipment and here the liner. Would I personally ever do it myself? Nope, but we sell quite few every year.
The hardest part to doing an I pool is digging your hole correctly , so if you have a good digger the rest is pretty self explanatory for anyone with some building background.

 

[mrsmom]

We got a one piece fiberglass pool in 2000 for 17,000 , They start now at 19,000 but my dh got transfer to Ohio and we sold our house in indiana. I wouldl get another one piece pool again in aminute.
Kim