personal swimming pools

[echo42]

I am new to having a swimming pool, and didn't go looking for a house with a pool, but we found a house we liked that happened to have a pool. With that being said, I have found that pool season for us starts somewhere around "tax day" and ends around Thanksgiving. We do not have a heated pool. I hear a heated pool will extend the swimming season a few extra months and the SDGE bill a few extra hundred dollars.

[sschibuola]

Just adding to the chorus that "year round" is probably too optimistic for an SD pool, unless money is no object and you don't mind giving SDG&E a hefty bonus. But even then - the pool will be warm . . .but remember . . . SoCal is a DESERT which means cool evenings . . you step out of that heated pool on a December evening after sunset, you'll catch cold and die! (as my mother likes to say).

We too jumped in our pool for the first time this year last Friday but it was unusually warm with a sustained Santa Ana wind. Usually it's June to Oct/Nov. We have a gas heater but I'm too much of a cheap bastard to use it on the pool.

One thing worth considering . . .it's very cost-effective (even for me) to fire up the hot-tub on a sunny winter day (as long as you get out before sunset!). Even if you just set it to luke-warm bath and not full-on skin-sloughing mode. So a hot tub in SD is definitely a year-round prospect.

[ShelbyGirl1]

Originally Posted by sschibuola

Just adding to the chorus that "year round" is probably too optimistic for an SD pool, unless money is no object and you don't mind giving SDG&E a hefty bonus. But even then - the pool will be warm . . .but remember . . . SoCal is a DESERT which means cool evenings . . you step out of that heated pool on a December evening after sunset, you'll catch cold and die! (as my mother likes to say).

We too jumped in our pool for the first time this year last Friday but it was unusually warm with a sustained Santa Ana wind. Usually it's June to Oct/Nov. We have a gas heater but I'm too much of a cheap bastard to use it on the pool.

One thing worth considering . . .it's very cost-effective (even for me) to fire up the hot-tub on a sunny winter day (as long as you get out before sunset!). Even if you just set it to luke-warm bath and not full-on skin-sloughing mode. So a hot tub in SD is definitely a year-round prospect.

We use our hottib all year long.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

You will go broke trying to use a pool year round here.