Pool Build Cost

This isn’t your area but it may be a good estimate for a leisure pool fiberglass pool. The site lists their price and what it includes. I wish all did that.

Leisure Pool Pricing

Anyone have experience with Leisure Pools or a more cost effective pool build?

I agree. Get a nice above ground pool that is sunken into the ground a couple feet, have a nice deck built around it, then rip it all out 15 years later when you're sick and tired of that shite.

W went with a fiberglass pool a few years ago. Installation cost was a little cheaper than gunite but the maintenance and 10 year cost cost is much cheaper.

We got lucky and built last summer with a guy just getting into the business but was a concrete salesman and he snagged the gunite guy exclusively who was previously doing gunite for other companies. Prices were fair and he could start sooner than anyone else. Our pool is 24 x 17 with a hot tub and basically decked most of the surrounding area as our yard is small. Cost us $61K. If we did it now, it would probably be closer to 75-80. We’re in Lafayette so not sure how comparable prices would be in BR. Maintenance has been pretty straightforward and not too costly. Startup chemicals are expensive but once you’re water is settled, it’s not bad if you stay on top of it.

FWIW, our agent looked at comps in our neighborhood and priced our house 200k over those because of our pool.

we got it.

throwing that out there because conventional wisdom in the past has always been that a pool is a giant money pit but covid changed everything and now people are willing to pay a premium for a pool.

in other words, that 100k might actually be a decent home upgrade that pays for itself if you ever sell.

of course in 5 years everything could completely change again.

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Best thing that happened to me before building a pool was finding troublefreepool. You have gotten great advice here as usual, but I would head over there as well. Not just building but water maintenance as well.

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yep a bunch of smart, retired, grumpy old men over there who are SPOT ON with their advice.

i asked a question about a UV system connected to my current pool and just sat back and watched the shite fly. you had the "useless, rip it out" followed by a scientific treatise from a different old grumpy man as to why it DOES work.

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says the guy who has never had a pool

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the new pool is 8' deep and has a diving board and a slide.

i want to put in a basketball goal but the wife is VIOLENTLY against adding anything else.

its like being a kid again. i can't tell you the last time i was in a pool with a diving board.

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he wife is VIOLENTLY against adding anything else.

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you want me to talk to her?

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I’d like a built in hot tub as well.

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I bet you would you horndog.