- Sep 9, 2017
- 66
- Pool Size
- 14000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-3)
Hi everyone! Hope everyone who was/or is in the path of a hurricane is keeping safe.
So, my wife and I are 20 days away from hopefully closing on our next home. Cross your fingers, we're closing on both the house we're selling and buying on the same day. Anywho, once that goes through here's what I'm looking at...
We found the right home, in the right neighborhood with a great backyard. It has a kidney-ish shaped free form in-ground vinyl pool. Inspector guessed it was about 12k gallons. The home was foreclosed before some investors bought and quickly flipped it. Google images show the pool looking like a swamp. Since it was purchased by the (out of state) investors they've retained a local pool company to "maintain" and service it. It's a salt water system with a gas heater. Apparently they replaced the pump, filter sand and a bunch of gaskets. There has obviously been a leak a some point. Possibly the reason for the burned out pump? But you can see a few wrinkles of significant size in the shallow end. We asked the sellers to replace the liner. They and the pool company servicing the pool insist there is no leak. A patch is visible. Anywho, they responded to our request offering to give us a $1500 credit toward an estimated $3k replacement job. We accepted. We marked the water level a few days ago and will return shortly to see if it's changed much. In my mind, if we saw the house but instead of a questionable liner -- there was all the equipment, concrete and a hole already dug for the pool and all we'd needed to get up and running is spend a little money getting a liner, that's still a great deal for me. It would be several years before I could afford to build a new $40k pool -- but a few thousand dollars for a liner, I can swing.
It's my hope the sellers and pool company are truthful when they say there's no leak. If that's the case, it's just a matter of getting it up and running and maybe we can get a few seasons out of the existing liner before biting the bullet and installing a new liner. My buddies have insisted we're handy enough to install the liner ourselves. Jury is still out on that opinion!
What do you think? Dive-in? Here are a few pics from the listing. Since leaves have started falling, it doesn't look quite as nice now as it does in the pics. But I'm sure a few minutes a day could have it looking nice again before shutting it down for the season.
So, my wife and I are 20 days away from hopefully closing on our next home. Cross your fingers, we're closing on both the house we're selling and buying on the same day. Anywho, once that goes through here's what I'm looking at...
We found the right home, in the right neighborhood with a great backyard. It has a kidney-ish shaped free form in-ground vinyl pool. Inspector guessed it was about 12k gallons. The home was foreclosed before some investors bought and quickly flipped it. Google images show the pool looking like a swamp. Since it was purchased by the (out of state) investors they've retained a local pool company to "maintain" and service it. It's a salt water system with a gas heater. Apparently they replaced the pump, filter sand and a bunch of gaskets. There has obviously been a leak a some point. Possibly the reason for the burned out pump? But you can see a few wrinkles of significant size in the shallow end. We asked the sellers to replace the liner. They and the pool company servicing the pool insist there is no leak. A patch is visible. Anywho, they responded to our request offering to give us a $1500 credit toward an estimated $3k replacement job. We accepted. We marked the water level a few days ago and will return shortly to see if it's changed much. In my mind, if we saw the house but instead of a questionable liner -- there was all the equipment, concrete and a hole already dug for the pool and all we'd needed to get up and running is spend a little money getting a liner, that's still a great deal for me. It would be several years before I could afford to build a new $40k pool -- but a few thousand dollars for a liner, I can swing.
It's my hope the sellers and pool company are truthful when they say there's no leak. If that's the case, it's just a matter of getting it up and running and maybe we can get a few seasons out of the existing liner before biting the bullet and installing a new liner. My buddies have insisted we're handy enough to install the liner ourselves. Jury is still out on that opinion!
What do you think? Dive-in? Here are a few pics from the listing. Since leaves have started falling, it doesn't look quite as nice now as it does in the pics. But I'm sure a few minutes a day could have it looking nice again before shutting it down for the season.
