Pool experts aka svo

[War Machine]

This pool was installed in 1972 and quipment seems to be the same age.

1st question seeing how it's holding water how likely is it this pool is savable?

2nd ball park for services to get back up and running again?

3rd how much to get the machical side up to date?

https://imgur.com/gallery/4PYjTl8

https://photos.app.goo.gl/58A1fiwGGoKjJfst6

[BradM]

Go down the slide, bro!

[dcs13]

I will say that SVO hooked me up a few times on parts.. He gets good prices..
That said, I'm so FUCKING glad I don't have a pool anymore...
If your pipes are still good , figure on
$750 for a filter
$500 for a new pump
$650 for a polaris unit if its plumbed for one.
Pool looks like it holds water. Cant tell how bad the plaster is. Not sure what a plaster job costs these days...

[Darren M]

SVO FTW at my place. He's the only one who will ever touch my pipes.

[Chopped54]

My brother has a brand new Jandy 3hp pump for sale. Also have a cheaper pump if you are just wanting to get it flowing, also brand new. I think it is a Polaris....

[svauto-erotic855]

Pools from that era were plumbed in copper and all of that plumbing would have rotted away a long time ago. In all likelihood the pool has been remodeled few times, re-plumbed with PVC, and the equipment replaced several times. If there are no structural deficiencies with the shell of the pool it is always possible to remodel it. The only limitations are your imagination and your budget.

Send me a PM with your number and I will give you a call. I'd also like a picture of the pool equipment.

[War Machine]

Thanks guys, if I buy this house i'll let be in contact svo.

It's a cool house, 4000sqft in Plano on an acre lot.

[Gasser64]

Go down the slide, bro!

he gonna get hurt

[Big A]

You can probably get it updated and swimmable for a few grand in equipment and chemicals, or be in it for 20 grand if you automate with top line equipment, and have to re-plaster with new coping. Hell, it could be fine if you drain it and have the equipment checked out. Our pool was dark and obviously neglected when we bought in Frisco. Turns out a plastic grocery bag had gotten sucked into the pump, so there wasn't enough flow to get the water filtered properly. I did eventually put in a variable speed pump, but the pool was back to blue in a couple days, and in use the whole time, til Iput in the new pump. Not trying to give false hope, ours is a much newer pool, but an example that water can go to shit for a myriad of reason, neglect being number 1.

Presuming that you do have to buy new equipment, I'd suggest going saltwater off the bat.

Set $5k aside for the pool, see what the realtor can tell you about how exactly it came to the current "unbalanced" state, and have it in mind when you settle on an offer amount. Not at all a deal breaker, but it will take time and money to get fixed.

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[War Machine]

Well, there's lots of scary things with the pool being one


Other is the house was built in 72 so it has the first generation of slab foundations. It's been vacant for 5 years, so it has cast iron pipes in the slab with no water running through them for half a decade. So that could be a huge problem.

We love the house, how often do you run across a property in West Plano has an acre lot that backs up to a creek and 4000 sqft? But this house is fucked so it's tough

[Captain Crawfish]

Watch the movie money pit before you buy it

[slow99]

Fuck a saltwater pool, I'll never go back to that again.

[Ruffdaddy]

With house prices set to fall...I wouldn't rush into anything.

[svauto-erotic855]

Without pointing fingers at anyone I will add a couple of more comments.

A 3 horsepower pump is typically too large to be useful for anything other than a water feature. Unless you have a several hundred foot run from the pool to the equipment a 3 horsepower pump will move more water than the filter can effectively handle and it will cause damage to the internals of the filter. Using a very large commercial sand filter would be the exception in this instance, but you had better have plumbed the pool in 2 and 1/2 inch plumbing

On a pool without water features, a hot tub, or an elaborate lighting system there is no reason to add an automated controller. There's nothing there to automate and a regular mechanical time clock for the pool cleaner and the filter pump is all you need. An automated system simply adds complexity, cost and another very expensive point of failure.

Don't add a saltwater chlorinating system to a pool, ever, under any circumstances, I'm not joking. Salt water is basically acid and it dissolves or kills everything around the pool including the pool itself and the pool equipment. Just because your pool isn't green doesn't mean that you don't have serious problems. A saltwater chlorinating system is itself a serious problem.

Edit: Saltwater is really the exact opposite of acid but it's easier to explain it as acid to people that aren't familiar with water chemistry. The end results are the same.

[Chopped54]

Don't add a saltwater chlorinating system to a pool, ever, under any circumstances, I'm not joking. Salt water is basically acid and it dissolves or kills everything around the pool including the pool itself and the pool equipment. Just because your pool isn't green doesn't mean that you don't have serious problems. A saltwater chlorinating system is itself a serious problem.

When we were looking EVERYONE said "go saltwater, only way to go, best decision we made"

The first two builders said the same, it's the only way. Last builder, and the one that we went with, said exactly what you said. When I asked about it he said he would install the chlorinator if we wanted it and would come back in a few years and replace it, as well as the flag stone, coping, grout.....
When I asked all the people who suggested salt water about these points all of them reluctantly agreed that they have all had some if not all of these issues....