Selling a home - pool or no pool
Janelle Van
8 years ago
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Pool Equipment Storage (When you don't have a pool house)
Comments (2)If you are getting a safety cover, one item is a must, a Toters 96 gallon trash can. The wheels make it portable and easy to move, the safety cover will fit in it when folded for the Summer and the lid keeps mice and other rodents out so they can't nest and chew(expensive repairs), can hold pool toys and tools, pool sweeps, and stuff in the Winter, and are extremely durable. I also like Rubber Maid deck boxes for storing powdered chems such as Alkalinity Increaser, pH Increaser, 3" tabs, di-chlor and cal-hypo powdered shocking powders, DE, ... I DON'T use air tight storage so that any fumes can dissipate don't accumulate. Any liquids such as algaecides, Muriatic acid, sequesterants should be stored where they can't freeze and won't be subjected to very warm/hot locations, i.e. not next to a furnace. Also keep them out of reach from young children. I minimize the quantity of these I keep on hand. Scott...See Moreselling house with a nightmare pool
Comments (17)I had to sell a house in NJ with a pool that had not been opened in years. I contacted a pool demo company and got an estimate it was close to eleven thousand dollars. There are EPA, state and local laws about filling in a pool. Be sure to do your homework. The concrete fill had to be a certain size etc. Rebar needed to be recycled for a certain fee. Yikes. The prospective buyers had a pool inspector examine the pool. I gave that report to a pool repair company. They said the repairs could run near two thousand dollars. I gave my estimates to the buyer and I offered to take off eleven thousand from the asking price. The buyer accepted and I no longer had the worry of what else they would find underground. I did not have to worry about having a truck with tons of concrete driving near my house's foundation and potentially cracking it. The heavy equipment and dumpsters can crack driveways too....See Moreelevated pool question with pool house
Comments (6)Sounds like a major oversight. All the elevations should have been finalized before anything started on your property. Just wondering why they need to raise and additional 18" ??? Don't mess with the pool height. Leave as is. As mentioned, it can look nice with an elevation change. Considering making the top step 24"-30" wide. A landing if you will. This way the folding doors when opened won't be an intrusion on the top step. The remaining treads at 14" are more comfortable than a traditional 12" step. We use this same concept for entry points into a pool on a new build. Depending on proposed overall height above the pool deck, if the run, the space between the pool and the pool house, is roughly 16'-18', it won't feel like your "stumbling" onto the pool patio. From the pic it looks about 15'-16' from the pool? That can work in your favor. Good luck....See MoreWho sells pool plaster material to public?
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