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Originally Posted by tbro4123
I now get someone in to clean and maintain my (actually hers and kids) pool and equipment and it cost more than the XR8 yearly.
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Our pool barely gets used. I think I've been in it maybe 10 times since I moved here. Dad has been using it more regularly for his version of water aerobics since he got a knee replacement earlier this year.
When I first moved here I saw Mum and Dad were paying through the nose to maintain this water hole that no one used. Around $1000 a year for the pool guy alone. I decided how to learn to look after it myself, try save them money.
Got a cover to stop the evaporation, which meant chemical usage and chlorinator levels are kept to a minimum. Even then it still costs around $300 to $400 a year to maintain. $180 to $200 of that is electricity costs and the rest is water and chemicals. Gets closer to the $400 mark if there has been a hiccup that causes an algae problem.
It would scare me to think what it costs if we used the pool regularly like yourselves and had it maintained externally.