Pool or No Pool?

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by asufan

My guess is that your snowbird friends exaggerated for shock value

What? No one ever exaggerates here, especially not about how hot it is

[kell490]

Grew up in Orange County area Southern California we had a pool we heated in the summer with a 200k BTU gas heater to get it to the low 80s cost us about $125 a month in gas which was 1980's money today that probably $300+.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Bates419

I think the guys who pay the bills and gave me the quote might know better than you or I. How much do you think it would cost to run your gas pool heater for probably half of the 24 hours in a day? Remember they are heating a pool to 90 degrees when the air temp is probably below 60 for half of tge day. And before you say no one is heating their pool at those temps you are 100% wrong as snowbirds do it every year when the grand kids are in town. No is it exactly $100 or above per day, maybe not, but 6ut is very significant and that number is not out to lunch.

Well if some snowbird said it, it must be true!

I’ve heated mine several times over the years and it was always a somewhat negligible increase in billing.

[Bates419]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

Well if some snowbird said it, it must be true!

I’ve heated mine several times over the years and it was always a somewhat negligible increase in billing.

You heat your pool in January for a week and the cost was somewhat negligible hey?? Yeah someone is bs'ing all right.

[DetroitN8V]

Originally Posted by Bates419

You heat your pool in January for a week and the cost was somewhat negligible hey?? Yeah someone is bs'ing all right.

Where did you get that I said I heated it for a week in January? I'm telling you when I did heat it, I barely noticed the increase. $100/day is far from reality and repeating hearsay as if it's factual doesn't help anyone.

[Bates419]

Originally Posted by DetroitN8V

Where did you get that I said I heated it for a week in January? I'm telling you when I did heat it, I barely noticed the increase. $100/day is far from reality and repeating hearsay as if it's factual doesn't help anyone.

How much do you think it would cost to heat a pool in January for a week? Am I off by $100 for the week? $200?

[Bates419]

Just for fun I looked up some websites that estimate the cost of running pool heaters. I apologize if the numbers are off but this is what I have found. It costs on average roughly 4 therms per hour to run a natural gas heater. In AZ I think a therm runs roughly $1.25 per therm. So you are looking at roughly $5 per hour to run your heater in AZ. In January I'm fairly confident my $100 per day will not be a massive exageration.

[john3232]

Originally Posted by Handymanjojo

We have teenagers and are moving to Phoenix area. How important is a pool? Found a good house but doesn’t have a pool or community pool- but is close to Wet n Wild. Any tips?

Depends on how much you plan to use it. I have a pool and I enjoy an afternoon swim during the summer months.

Maintenance isn't difficult but you will need to stay on top of cleaning the baskets, back-washing and adding additional shock tablets during the summer.


When we have a dust storm or it's a very windy day I have to check the pool for dirt/debris.

But I don't mind.

I like my pool and keep it very clean.