Oh Boy... What have I done... a pool?

[QCH]

My wife and daughter have convinced me to buy a pool... :banghead:

So, last Saturday, I went to go "look" at some pools and walked out an hour or so later $4,600 lighter. :bawling:

15' x 30' above ground pool... fountain, upgraded kit, and other nice stuff.....

So, by the middle of July, I will be mowing less yard :celebrate and cooling myself in a nice pool.... :cool:

I just keep thinking how nice of a laptop I could of had.... :rant:

[PressX]

Do you not need permsion to have a pool? In the UK it would take six months and then it would be to bloody cold to have one. Pool shops are as common as hens teeth here.
It would also cost a sh*t load more than $4600

[QCH]

Pool... just fill out a permit, call the utilities to make sure nothing is near where you plan on digging. That's about it.

They deliver the pool parts on Saturday and I'll schedule the install for the first week or two of July...

[TheBaron]

the joys of american consumerism :D

[profdlp]

Party at Q's house!
:celebrate

[leishi85]

i remember having a pool in our backyard......

oh wait, we still do, we just haven't used it in a while.

[Nomad]

the joys of american consumerism :D

At quick glance, I thought you said communism.

:eek2:

[Clutch]

Party at Q's house!
:celebrate


Ditto :Rocker:

[primesuspect]

my friends had a pool in their backyard when I was a kid... And then we went out there one spring and found a dead squirrel floating in it and I got put off on pools for a few years :D

[Thrax]

We can all play mantouch in Q's new pool! :D

[profdlp]

We can all play mantouch in Q's new pool! :D
I don't know, man. Wouldn't it be a step down to go from hash browns to one of this bunch? ;D

my friends had a pool in their backyard when I was a kid... And then we went out there one spring and found a dead squirrel floating in it and I got put off on pools for a few years :D
I'm sure that is just what a guy wants to hear after shelling out nearly 5,000 clams... :rolleyes: ;D ;D

[Mt_Goat]

We can all play mantouch in Q's new pool! :D

Only if you leave "The Eyebrow" home.
:eek3:

[csimon]

LOL ...the pool will be nice Q but just don't set it under a tree!
My pool "was" under a tree a month ago. To make a long story short ...the heavy rains took out an entire quarter of the tree and now (after days of cutting) I have no tree over my pool.

If you only knew the trouble I went thru every Fall ...not big leaves like a regular oak oh no ...we're talking millions upon millions of tiny little pin leaves that would clog the skimer within days ...and that's with me cleaning out as much as I could a few times a day. Then the pool had to stay unmaintained throughout the cold winter!

Basically ...trees are no friend to the family pool!

Oh yeah ...invest in a barracuda!

So I'm now going to the bank this week to close a deal on 6.75% interest to build another house. I have a friend who just bought a fiberglass pool company (American Pools). Last week he told me to choose the shape and size I want and I did ...basically I chose a $28000 pool that he can have installed and ready to swim for $18,000. Inground pools in this area start at $25000 so I'd be nuts to pass it by.

Anyway ...good luck with your pool Q ...did I mention it's a kini-babe magnet?

[profdlp]

...did I mention it's a kini-babe magnet?

MEGA:
Party at Q's house!
:celebrate

[Thrax]

Only if you leave "The Eyebrow" home.
:eek3:

The Short-Media Eyebrow cannot be left behind.

[Straight_Man]

We ahve other hazards to pools in Florida-- lizards that decide to get a drink, hop in or fall in, get caught in skimmer, and eventually dissolved except for skeletons by the chlorine levels floridians have to maintain to keep the flora from sringing out all over underwater (yellow algea, anyone??) So, we have this thing, called a lanai or a pool cage. Snow buildup would destroy those up norht, ours get blown assunder in soem random parts of state each year by hurricanes. But willow trees next to pools are a disaster. When I lived in MI, dad used to do this each winter-- first, pool was shut down and antifreeze (pink reasonably non-toxic anti-line-burst chemical for plumbing up north for trailers or houses to be left empty) was put in lines to pool. Pool got a huge chlorine shocking. Then we ran a large thick vinyl pool cover over the thing. That got held down by many patched things that were meant to be water filled but had burst too often, filled with SAND and tied closed. We let the cover sheet sink about 6-10 inches into pool. Come late December to early January, we had a small skating rink all winter until spring thaw. Take snow off, put ice skates on while sitting at pool edge so as not to cut small part of cover at edge of rink, wallah!!

Down here, we cover with a bubble wrap kind of sheet made of vinyl and bluish looking, and every noce in a whiel shock pool. no sand filled things, also no ice skating... On real warm winter days we might roll cover onto roller and swim fro a shorter than normal time, a few days ina row of warmer than usual winter, and the solar heater usually made pool bearable. Frequently the pool recirced all winter, and we maintain the chemistry year round in pools down here in my small town. different places, different problems... :D

We have trees overhanging screened lanai, and so far while I have lived here a hurricane has not hit Punta Gorda in a very long time in decades. If one hits, bye-bye lanai. Period. House should mostly survive unless it is a CAT 3, in which case primary danger to our house is flooding unless it becomes a CAT 4 hurricane. In that case, bye-bye house. Think big tornado composed BAND of tornadoes if you want to think of a CAT 4 hurricane and live up north. Cat 4 will give us a surge 6-8 feet or more up walls of block contruction house here (house floor is 9 feet above mean sea level). We will NOT be here if one is predicted to hit here, will be on east coast or Orlando area or up in MI or IL by the time it hits-- I kid you NOT!

[bothered]

The kids made our pool, it's directly under where the swing used to be. We can have three people paddling at once, Ah the long summer days.

[QCH]

Well we got a nice oval pool that will go in the middle of the yard near the left side of the yard to allow for some yard between the pool and the other side. Our lot is narrow and REALLY long so the oval was the best fit. The nearest trees are 50 feet away and east of the pool so, most of the leaves will be blow AWAY from the pool. I haven't had to rake the yard for leaves yet so, the pool should be fine.

We upgraded to a nice 2 HP motor, "vision" filter system so only 20% of the chlorine that most pools need. Shock it once a month and small tables of chlorine a week... the rest is handled by carbon filter, copper and zinc resin beads.... similar to "Brita" water filters... Clear water, very little chlorine... I like it.

I've never had a pool but from the people I've talked to that have pools or had pools, I should be good with what I have.

<font size=7 color=red> <b> NO MANTOUCH </b></font>
<font size=2 color=gray> unless its all the babes that are doing the touch'n.... </font>

[Thrax]

Awwwwww :( you wait to SMLAN '05, bitch.