We have never owned a pool, but we are both originally from the cold and now in Las Vegas for the last 5 years. Our first home we rented had an older pool that scratched the itch. We are currently building a new home that is slated for completion appx June. We'd like to get a pool done this year and our realtor who we know and trust recommended the person who has done his pool and his best friend's pool as well. We do plan on getting at least one other quote. We met with this builder on Monday and will do further vetting/questions for him. He will be sending us some of his work here this week. Anwyay...
He's quoted as beginning prices for an 80 perimeter for 40K. I believe spa was 12.5K. We didn't go into great detail what this all entailed, but basic equipment with this and prices up from there.
About us: Never owned a pool. Had one for 2 years as our first rental here. We are in our 40s. No kids. Don't do a ton of entertaining, but we do have a collection of close cold weather friends who like to visit us each year. We primarily will have the pool for just my wife and I.
We are leaning towards these features/concepts with primary function as an adult leisure pool with very little kid use.
1) rectangular shapes that will keep us in the 80 to 90 perimeter size as we want to keep the costs reasonable and don't need a monstrosity. 14X28 or probably no larger than 15X32.
2) Spa. Unsure on the size. 7X7 seems reasonable. Likely would have less than 4 people in it 99% of the time. Likely built into the pool space. Drop down or raised? I LOVE a hot tub and like to use it year around. That being said, we probably won't heat the actual pool during the "winter" months outside of maybe when we get visitors over Thanksgiving. So spa used year around and the pool pretty much Mid March at the earliest to Mid Oct at the latest. Can we just use a shared system for the pool/spa for how I describe it?
3) We are planning on a tanning ledge. With this, we would likely have the spa next to it. is a 7x9 or 8x9 deck enough for 2 people? How about thoughts on depth? I'm leaning towards 10 to 15 inches? I'd like it to be enough to just sit in to cool off and deep enough to be slightly in the water in a lounger chair.
4) Pool depth. I'm 5'11" and wife is 5'5" I'm leaning more toward either a sport pool or a uniform depth. If a sport pool, I'm thinking 4-5-4 or no more than 5.5 in the middle. Let's say we end up with only 19 feet of usable pool space after the tanning deck, would the sloping be okay? If a uniform pool depth, I'm leaning toward 4.5 feet, which might be a bit too deep for the wife? The wife actually would like a gentle slope from say 3.5 or 4 feet up to 6 feet at the "deep end." IMO, this 6 foot depth would be nice, but I see it more as wasted space. But again, most times in will just be us, or another couple or 2. Thoughts?
Sorry if I am a bit disjointed in my initial post. I'm excited and nervous over spending so much money and knowing so little. I've spent a good couple of days reading up on reddit, this website, and swimmingpoolsteve to get some thoughts and ideas, but I'm still a bit all over the place, but we do at least have a nice framework in our minds, lol.
He's quoted as beginning prices for an 80 perimeter for 40K. I believe spa was 12.5K. We didn't go into great detail what this all entailed, but basic equipment with this and prices up from there.
About us: Never owned a pool. Had one for 2 years as our first rental here. We are in our 40s. No kids. Don't do a ton of entertaining, but we do have a collection of close cold weather friends who like to visit us each year. We primarily will have the pool for just my wife and I.
We are leaning towards these features/concepts with primary function as an adult leisure pool with very little kid use.
1) rectangular shapes that will keep us in the 80 to 90 perimeter size as we want to keep the costs reasonable and don't need a monstrosity. 14X28 or probably no larger than 15X32.
2) Spa. Unsure on the size. 7X7 seems reasonable. Likely would have less than 4 people in it 99% of the time. Likely built into the pool space. Drop down or raised? I LOVE a hot tub and like to use it year around. That being said, we probably won't heat the actual pool during the "winter" months outside of maybe when we get visitors over Thanksgiving. So spa used year around and the pool pretty much Mid March at the earliest to Mid Oct at the latest. Can we just use a shared system for the pool/spa for how I describe it?
3) We are planning on a tanning ledge. With this, we would likely have the spa next to it. is a 7x9 or 8x9 deck enough for 2 people? How about thoughts on depth? I'm leaning towards 10 to 15 inches? I'd like it to be enough to just sit in to cool off and deep enough to be slightly in the water in a lounger chair.
4) Pool depth. I'm 5'11" and wife is 5'5" I'm leaning more toward either a sport pool or a uniform depth. If a sport pool, I'm thinking 4-5-4 or no more than 5.5 in the middle. Let's say we end up with only 19 feet of usable pool space after the tanning deck, would the sloping be okay? If a uniform pool depth, I'm leaning toward 4.5 feet, which might be a bit too deep for the wife? The wife actually would like a gentle slope from say 3.5 or 4 feet up to 6 feet at the "deep end." IMO, this 6 foot depth would be nice, but I see it more as wasted space. But again, most times in will just be us, or another couple or 2. Thoughts?
Sorry if I am a bit disjointed in my initial post. I'm excited and nervous over spending so much money and knowing so little. I've spent a good couple of days reading up on reddit, this website, and swimmingpoolsteve to get some thoughts and ideas, but I'm still a bit all over the place, but we do at least have a nice framework in our minds, lol.