Well, the swimming pool….the one item that needed renovated that we all seriously wanted to get done first, but the whole being able to live in the house came up as a higher priority.
The words “swimming pool” was not really the right words that should have been used to describe what our pool used to look like and was definitely not somewhere I would want to swim in.
Here are some pictures of the pool from when we purchased the house…it was a swamp, piled high with trash, broken pool loungers and way too many frogs and other animals we were unsure of.
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| Above and Below – The pool when we arrived in October 2014 |
Below are some pictures of the work that Kevin and Charlie (with some help from Kevin’s work friend Paul) completed. The pool is 40 feet long by 18 feet wide and 10 foot deep at the deep end and 4 foot at the shallow end.
So with the new liner attached, the process of filling the pool started….because of the way you have to fill it up bit by bit to cut out holes for the filters and pump outlets, we had some challenges. It took over a week to get the pool filled and ended up with algae. However the right chemicals have killed the algae. Below are some pictures taken once the pool was filled.
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| Erin and Jordyn…plus Charlies feet 🙂 |
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| Jordyn |
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| Shelby taking a swim |
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| Tracey cleaning the algae |
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| Nearly there |
We are still struggling with keeping the algae at bay, but plan to empty the pool before winter, refill and winterize.
Just ordered a cover…the costs that we have incurred for the pool are $800 for liner, about $200 in chemicals, $100 for the cover and $30 for winterizing chemicals. Luckily our water bill has not increased because here we have a standard fixed city utility bill of $35 that does street lights, trash and water. I am sure because of running the pump our electric bill will increase as well but have not seen that bill come in yet.
So next year I estimate that it will cost us about $300 to keep up and running for the summer. Well worth it considering that I have spent an hour a day swimming since we got it set up, Charlie loves it, as does Kevin. Tracey and Erin certainly spent a lot of time swimming whilst they were here too!
