This is pure whining--but also a bit of genuine questioning! Why are pools so insanely expensive?
I want a hole in the ground, perhaps as small as 8x10, 12x10 at very largest. No diving board, no grotto, no volleyball net or spitting statues, no bulky faux-marble hot tub benches and stupid hot tub jet packs...just a container of some sort, with clean, cool chlorinated water of some sort. My quotes have now ranged from 50k to 100k, which is a bizarrely wide range. Am I being ripped off?
I'd be ok with an above ground pool if they didn't all have egregiously-plasticky wide top rails or look like bloated blue cookie monsters.
Two years ago I completed an 1800 sq ft house expansion--furnace, AC, flooring, framing, painting, etc. for less than 50k. I just...don't get it. What is it about pools that makes them cost so much more than, well, anything?
I want a hole in the ground, perhaps as small as 8x10, 12x10 at very largest. No diving board, no grotto, no volleyball net or spitting statues, no bulky faux-marble hot tub benches and stupid hot tub jet packs...just a container of some sort, with clean, cool chlorinated water of some sort. My quotes have now ranged from 50k to 100k, which is a bizarrely wide range. Am I being ripped off?
I'd be ok with an above ground pool if they didn't all have egregiously-plasticky wide top rails or look like bloated blue cookie monsters.
Two years ago I completed an 1800 sq ft house expansion--furnace, AC, flooring, framing, painting, etc. for less than 50k. I just...don't get it. What is it about pools that makes them cost so much more than, well, anything?