Do you have a pool?

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

What temp outside are you able to get into the pool? Do you swim or just sunbathe?

As a teen, we just went to the lake. We can still go to the lakes to swim.

Going over to Lake Michigan, we can watch the boats go in and out, walk out on the pier, lay in the hot sun, or walk the beaches. I love marinas too. It just feels good to be there.

It's raining here today, but I want spring and summer! LOL, Obviously!!

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

We do not have a pool , there is a community pool here but you can't actually swim there because everyone gets in it and just stands around gossiping. It is a standing in it pool, not a swimming pool.We go to the YMCA , get a lane and swim laps for exercise. My DH likes to swim his laps then get in the sauna - I swim until I'm exhausted. I also go to water aerobics 2 days a week. Sadly, it has been too cool here in the mornings to swim and I get too busy in the afternoons.

Meowingkitty · ‎06-19-2010

We live in Arizona where most people have a pool. We had a pool up until six years ago when we filled it in. We never used the thing more than a handful of times a year. It was always to cold, to hot, (it's to hot to sunbathe in Arizona, you will fry like a strip of bacon) to dirty, needed to be balanced, needed to be fixed, screaming kids outside etc. Every weekend it seemed we had to do something with it. Just wasn't worth the hassle for something we no longer enjoyed. The plaster was in desperate need of restoring, needed a new sand filter and when we needed a new pump it would be over $1000 and we decided it wasn't worth it. Filled that thing in and six years later we have no regrets. Our electric bill dropped over $200 a month plus the water and chemicals, pool man expenses. When we did use the pool we could swim from May to sometimes beginning of October. Depends on how chilly you can take. There are kids around me that will be in the pool sometimes in April but that's to cold for me.

jaxs mom · ‎04-18-2012

If the pool is unheated then on average it warms up to around whatever your overnight temps are. But there are a lot of variables such as how deep the pool is, how much direct sunlight the pool gets during the day and what your daily mean temperature is.

At one house we had a shallower pool, tons of sun and very high (90-100 degree) overnights and the pool would stay in the mid 90s all summer. At another house, we were surrounded by other two story houses and had more foliage blocking the sun plus the pool was deeper and it would hit the 80s at the peak of summer but in early spring it would be 68-72. We'd just heat the pool at the very beginning and end of the season to extend swimming time.

It also depends on what temp water you tolerate. I grew up with a pool and swam in it in winter in the 30s and 40s. High sixties for water temp felt cool but fine to swim in in spring. Having not been used to commerical pools kept at higher temps. I'm also an avid swimmer and not much deters me, I'd swim in the ocean in winter also.

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CareBears · ‎08-30-2015

We do not have a pool but live in MN (home of 10,000 + lakes) I love to go to the beach in the summer and read, hop in the water to cool down, and I love to watch the boats out on the water, being by the water relaxes me!

kitty60 · ‎03-13-2010

Oh yes! Live in New England up until ten years ago and had a pool there where I could only use June thru Aug, if lucky. When we moved south it was on my list but not in the house we purchased. Finally after ten years got my pool last year and while I enjoyed in for a couple of months in the north it was awesome in the South. I used to be a dipper but have changed my habits. Being so much hotter I do all my work during the day and head out about five and stay outside until about 7 swimming. We got ours running the beginnin of June and my last swim was Halloween. I will watch to see when to open depending on when it warms up. Honestly, I don't see a significant increase in electricity and chemicals with salt pool were much less than chlorine.

Abrowneyegirl · ‎03-15-2010

NO pool here! We live in PA where there is maybe 3 months (4 on a good year) worth of swimming weather. We have a community pool.

The idea, expense, maintenance, liability, etc of a pool does NOT appeal to us (even if we could use it year round).

ScrapHappy · ‎03-28-2010

We have a pool. We just moved to a new house last summer so this will only be our second summer to use it. I live in the Southeast, it gets hot. Yesterday it was in the high 70's There is also a community pool in our neighborhood but I know they don't open it until mid-May and soon after they start swim practices for the swim team. I would guess we could start using our pool the same time or maybe the end of May/beginning of June. Even if it's a litle colder, my daughter won't care, she just wants to go in.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

Hi @qualitygal. I never learned how to swim. My mother was fearful of the water so she passed that fear to my brother and me. No pool, but even sunbathing w/ SPF 50 and higher...I burn. I'm the one in the lounge chair w/ umbrella, huge hat, long sleeve lightweight tee and an umbrella drink. LOL 😂