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How much does a lap pool like this cost approx?

9 years ago

We have a narrow section at the rear of our house that gets lovely sun.

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Barbara Dunstan
9 years ago
Antoinette,
More information and also pictures and measurements would be needed for any professional to respond to your question.
You really need to get a pool professional to come to your residence and give you a quote.
Talk to any neighbours who have had a pool installed and see if they will recommend their installer.
These are the first considerations that come to mind:
Do you have easy access for the pool delivery but more importantly the excavation process and removal of the excess soil or even rocks if you're unlucky.
If you only have a narrow access, you will need a crane to lift the pool in.
So far, you need to factor in any or all of these scenarios and you're already taking many thousands, if for example removal of the soil or rocks needs specialist equipment beyond the usual equipment.
If you are wanting to install a concrete pool, then there's many more thousands again with forming the pool and then concrete that would no doubt need to be pumped to the site and the pump itself is at least $2000 to get to your door before it actually starts concreting.
Then there's the plumbing, pool pump, solar heating that needs to be placed on the roof for heating the pool if you want it heated.
You need room around the pool to errect compulsory pool fencing too.
I expect you would possibly have no change out of $50,000
I am building a home with an indoor pool so it is a bit different to retrofitting a pool after a home is already errected.
My pool is a lap pool approx. 8m x 3m and the space that it's in is approx 12m x 6m and does include a changre room and pump room at one end so the actual area around the pool is 10.5m x 6m.
I was very lucky that hubby was able to dig the hole for the pool himself with a friends excavator and we had a truck to remove the clay and it was used around the home to back fill the veranda.
Because the pool was indoors, we were required to install concrete piers to support the pool every 1.5m and the pool also had to have a concrete bond beam before the rest of the concrete was poured.
We were lucky to purchase a fibreglass pool second hand but had we paid a professional to do everything in the photo's, it would have cost probably $10,000 not counting the cost of the pool shell or the rest of the foundations and brickwork.
Lots to consider isn't it???
Best of luck.
Cheers,
Barbara
I have attached a few photo's prior to the frame being installed.
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