rain, thunder, book, shepherd's pie.
now throw in some hail, nice bouncy hail.
High 90s the rest of the week.
^ high in the low 40s today.
There isn't much accreditation a contractor has to have to remodel a pool. Bonkers to me.
Hah. No story to tell...yet. Getting estimates for some pool remodeling. We knew when we bought our house a a few years ago, the pool plumbing would need some work and the liner replaced. It was already limping along on 1 skimmer and the liner was pretty shot, past expiration. The owners had to make some other major repairs and we wanted the house enough to compromise on the pool fixes.
Anyway, two different estimates with two different remodel approaches - one says to fix the main drain, the other says its not necessary and many pool installers aren't doing them now. I have a manual pool vacuum and any time we need to drain the thing, it'll be done with a service company sump so other than filtering, I'm not sure I see the reason for a drain...and doing that much digging adds $$ to the job.
Anyway, apparently you don't need much in terms of credentials to be a pool builder/contractor...surprising.
years ago when I was in banking, a client hired some guy to empty her pool for the winter (I don't know if they do that these days or not). Anyway, I guess the pool sat on something of a slope (though presumably it was level) and the guy drained the water on the uphill side of the pool in such a way that it actually lifted the pool partially out of the ground, water liking to run downhill and all.
Then it was a race to the bank between the guy who did the work (looking to cash the check) and the homeowner who was not amused and wanted to stop payment. Ugly scene.
The house we bought ten years ago had a nice in-ground pool. Cost us an arm and a leg to maintain. When the time came to spend $25k on a new liner, we took the easy opportunity to have it collapsed.
Here in Asheville you only get about three months of use anyway.
Y’all are not easing my mind! 😂
Pools are a six figure event here. Definitely why I don't have one. If you amortize that over how many times you use it...
Whoa. Really? I'd say you can expect to pay between $25K and $50K to install a brand new, in-ground pool here...with most basic models coming in on the low end and highly waterfall-ed versions coming in on the high end.
We definitely weren't looking for a pool but the house we ended up liking had one.
No, it didn't talk a whole lot, but there was a lot of braying...took our adept Animal Control officer and several of her best minions to get the horse out of the pool. Not long thereafter, the horse threw my neighbor (in the equine sense) and nearly killed her. Horse isn't around any more.