Know How To Price A Swimming Pool?

By Nina Adelson

Whether you're a new home owner or you've been in your existing home for some time, when you make the decision to install a pool, you may not know how to price a swimming pool. This article is meant to give you the basic information that you need to know in order to make a safe assessment of the price of getting a pool at your home.

First things first. What kind of pool are you looking for? As silly as it may sound, not everyone knows what they are looking for. Are you looking for an above ground or in ground pool? Chances are, if you're pricing a pool, you'll be getting an in ground swimming pool. That is a good place to start.

When pricing a swimming pool, you need to consider what size of a pool you want to have built. This includes circumference and depth of the pool. This will dictate the shape of the pool, as well. Decide on something that you can live with, for quite some time.

For instance, if you've got young children, you may at first be inclined to get a shallow pool. Just don't forget that as your kids grow, they'll need a deeper pool. It's easier to take precautions now to safeguard them from the deep water than it is to dig up and rebuild a pool later.

Figure out what you can afford and find out who can give you the most for your money. Do you live in a warm climate? If you do, you'll be using the pool more than up North where pools are usually used for three months out of the year and need to be covered the rest of the year. You need to decide whether or not you need to buy a pool cover and add that in to the price.

If you live somewhere that your pool will be open year around, you need to consider whether or not you're going to put a covered patio over the pool. In many states, Florida in particular, lanais are built over and around the pool, as a pool cage, protecting your pool from the environment and giving your family a bug free place to enjoy the water.

If you're having a pool enclosure built, you should add this cost in to the price. Either way, you need to have a security fence put up to protect your kids and animals from the dangers of being alone near the water. All of these things add to how to price a swimming pool. - 30521

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