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Very good points swampwoman, real estate agents or their websites would be a good place to gauge the market. And you make a good point, as retires can mothball the pool, but restore it once the house is passed on to a young family in the future. This could be done DIY, but my guess most will...

Well so far we have a market size of zero, no one has yet indicated they would like to have a temporary pool removal. I would point out that some or all of the attractiion is reclaiming the space taken up by the pool, in some homes the pool takes up the entire backyard, and so converting a pool...

Having to run/power anything is a non-starter, and having to actual do anything is also pretty much out. The house is empty for 3-5 years is the situation, power likely turned off, I'm in Panama.

I'm not 'selling' anything, I'm doing a 'market survey' to gauge demand for the product/service to semi-permanently close a pool that is then equivalent to a patch of dirt but can be restored back to a working pool later. And thanks, appreciate all the advice here.

Yes my partner told me pool companies would be the last people interested in promoting my product. ;) But I'm not asking you, I'm asking pool owners. What do you estimate the cost to keep a pool clean? No free-labor either, I might be out of the country and can't do one bit of work. I just...

I have the solution to this problem. I can't tell you exactly what it is until I get a patent, but won't get a patent if there is no market for the solution. Seems to me there is a market, but so far nobody says they want it on this forum..

Right, you can't just empty them, that is the problem, and if they have water in them, you can't just ignore them like you can a pile of dirt.

I've had enough of paying to keep my pool up, we rarely used it and I plan to rent this house and don't want to have to deal with the pool or charge the tennants either. I've looked high and low for a way to just forget about the pool without destroying it, and I've not found any existing...

So it is going to take 2-3 weeks to get my replacement parts for my pump. What can I do to rig up something temporary until then? Pool is starting to need cleaning. I have a sump pump, maybe somehow use that?

Opened the circulating pump, and there was quite a bit of carnage inside. It ingested some big plastic parts, one big piece still intact, the rest about merged into one with the impeller cover (diffuser). The impeller 'nose cone' with not really there anymore. OK, so now to fix it. Looks...

I don't get any bubbles in my returns. The only air bubbles are coming from the pressure pump to the cleaner hose. The skimmer is only about half full now, still above the intake hole to the circulating pump. Just doesn't seem to be moving enough water. I'm going to tear open the...

I recently replaced my ancient noisy pressure pump with a new PBR-40 that runs my Polaris pool cleaner. It was working fine until I pulled the pool filter to clean it. Now the pressure pump isn't really working, it gets big surges. I pulled the cleaner hose and removed the pressure regulator...