I didn't really want a pool when we got the house 3 years ago, but I figured I could deal with it.
I tried maintaining it myself, but I soon realized that brushing a pool a few times a week in the middle of summer, paired with buying and storing harmful chemicals in my garage, ruining my clothes with chlorine, almost gassing myself a few times and dealing with the chlorine shortages a few years back, was all too much of a hassle. So I paid a company $130/mo to keep it clean
We replaced the pool pump and filter ourselves, because all pool guys around here charge $300+ to do some basic PVC plumbing... We soon realized the racket that is the entire pool industry. All of the pool companies void your warranty if not installed by a "lIcEnCeD PoOl pUmP InStAlLeR" which comes around and does 10 mins of work with some PVC pipes and leaves. We got one from InyoPools which WILL warranty anything regardless of who installs it
Well, yet again the pool racket got me. The Century controller on top of the pool pump IS NOT WATERPROOF. So eventually water got in and would make the controller act funny, so I contacted them for warranty work. They then told me to take the pool pump apart, and send them the entire pump motor on my dime, and "In 3 to 4 weeks" they will send another. So I'm out a ton of shipping, no pump for a month and then the icing on the cake is that they don't provide replacements for the one-time-use seals!
Not wanting to go through that hassle I decided to just stick with it. Eventually the pump started to leak, so I replaced all the seals which all have "DO NOT USE WITH CHLORINATED WATER" on the packaging. Yes, Pool Pump seals. For a swimming pool. A swimming pool with chlorinated water. Yep you read all that right
Three seal packs later, still leaks and gets worse. Last week it got to the point where I had to dig a moat around my pool pump to stop it flooding the place. A new pool pump is $1000~, paying my pool guys for the year is $1000~, so I'm out over $2000 and I have a junk pool again! Woohoo!
It needed to be replastered, and the plumbing needed repairs, and the concrete around it would need to be replaced. It would end up at least being a $30K job, for a pool I never use.
Wish I had done this from the start! now I'll pay less home insurance, use less electric, use less water and gain a ton more room in my yard
Does anyone know if I can create a timelapse using regular video footage? I have all the demo on camera, but I want to make a time lapse of it