Am I the only one who thinks that Above Ground Pools...

[buck]

I am not a fan, but i have seen some that look decent.

 

[oddyager]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Am I the only one that thinks that above ground pools are a little bit white trash? This guy in my office goes on and on about how great his above ground pool is and he drives me crazy in general and this is just another thing. Seriously, they are just an overgrown baby pool.

Sorry, we all don't have money pouring out of our pockets. Leave us common folks alone with our above ground pools, thanks.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: *kjm
White trash?

not nearly as cool as the one that was made off the roof with the jump at the end.

 

[TheFamilyMan]

Originally posted by: NightDarker

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: NightDarker
In ground pools are where its at.

If I ever decide I absolutley HAVE to get a pool, I'll spend the extra $15000 on a real pool.

$15000? are you kidding me. Double that for anything decent.

I'm not kidding anyone $15k would get you a pretty freaking nice pool.

18K will get you an 18 x 36 in-ground, concrete and vinyl pool with 5ft of concrete on the perimeter for chairs and whatnot. The system is salt-water and low maintenance. It even comes with the Polaris cleaning system...for an extra 2k or so you can get a jacuzzi with infinity edge built in to one end of the pool that also serves as a 'waterfall' of sorts...very nice setup...

I know because that's what we're having built...

 

[SillyOReilly]

Having a short season here in NY, I see an inground being a waste.

If I lived in FL, I'd have one.

 

[Deeko]

This is a stupid thread.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: meltdown75
you build a deck on one side of it... you don't need ramps around the whole pool. lol n00b

You didn't understand what I said at all, but FDF did so I blame you.

i just wanted to imagine this funky above ground pool with ramps built all the way around it so you could ride your BMX up the ramp and do a wicked kickflip into the water

You can't kickflip a bike.

true.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: NightDarker
In ground pools are where its at.

If I ever decide I absolutley HAVE to get a pool, I'll spend the extra $15000 on a real pool.

extra $15k? You realize this is really just going to be an above ground pool mounted under the grade.

A real in-ground (concrete) pool usually starts at $30k, I know for a complete 15x30ish custom shaped pool I was quoted around $50k by a few vendors.

i was quoted $eleventy billion for a 16 x 32 pool. no word of a lie.

 

[brunell8]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Approximate costs for a 16x32 pool:
inground:
Steel wall+vinyl side: $17,000
Gunite: $37,000

Above ground:
metal wall oval: $2000
soft side rectangular: $4000


...and that is for a large pool, round ones are much cheaper.

Edit:
my point: inground pools are nice and all, but you're comparing a Scion TC to an Aston Martin Vantage price wise.

Guess it depends on where you live. I just had a 24 foot round above ground installed - my cost for just the pool and installation was around $4500. Add in $300 to have the electricity installed, plus $2000 to re-route my inground electrical lines so the pool could be installed to code in the location I wanted, and i'm out nearly $7K. I already have a deck on the back of my house - the plan is to expand that deck to wrap around the pool. An inground pool of approximately the same size with a nice stone deck around that would have run me around $40-45K.

 

[TestedAcorn]

As soon as i read the thread title I thought to myself, "white trash/redneck".

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: trmiv
Depends how it's installed. The house my parents bought a couple of years ago came with an above ground pool, but it is completely surrounded by a huge deck. Since the house has a crawl space, the pool and deck are level with the back of the house.

They did have an in-ground pool that they had installed at their old house. I think it was like $20,000 to $25,000.

This is the only acceptable above ground pool IMO

 

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: FDF12389
Above ground pool with a nice large deck, nothing wrong with that.

I agree with this. A couple people I know have a raised deck that comes off their house so that the pool is actually sunken all the way to the ground underneath and the water is at deck level. Unless you go under the deck you dont even see that it is "above ground"

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: FDF12389
Above ground pool with a nice large deck, nothing wrong with that.

I agree with this. A couple people I know have a raised deck that comes off their house so that the pool is actually sunken all the way to the ground underneath and the water is at deck level. Unless you go under the deck you dont even see that it is "above ground"

when you comming home?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Above ground pools can be trashy or nice depending on how they're done. Alot of places down here only do above ground pools because the water table is 7 inches below the ground.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: FDF12389
Above ground pool with a nice large deck, nothing wrong with that.

 

[Xavier434]

If they are on a deck which looks really nice then I like them. Otherwise, I think they make a backyard look really ugly.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"

- Mitch Hedberg

I was fully expecting this to be one of the first five responses to the thread.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: GRIFFIN1
Above the ground pools are much easier to set on the curb when you realize that all you do is clean the thing and no one ever swims in it.

LOL...so true. If you have an inground pool, you need to have a few tons of dirt dumped in the hole. And now you're out $20K.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Am I the only one that thinks that above ground pools are a little bit white trash? This guy in my office goes on and on about how great his above ground pool is and he drives me crazy in general and this is just another thing. Seriously, they are just an overgrown baby pool.

..go soak in your bath tub.

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: GRIFFIN1
Above the ground pools are much easier to set on the curb when you realize that all you do is clean the thing and no one ever swims in it.

LOL...so true. If you have an inground pool, you need to have a few tons of dirt dumped in the hole. And now you're out $20K.

I came here to post this.

 

[PingSpike]

You should just dig a hole and put in a pond instead. Cheaper, you don't have to clean it, and you'll probably swim in it just as often as you would have swam in the pool.





I guess if you're in florida you have more then a month and a half to swim in the pool though. And you don't have to cover it and get it ready every spring. And the water probably isn't -400C most of the time.

 

[fisheerman]

Originally posted by: TheFamilyMan

Originally posted by: NightDarker

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: NightDarker
In ground pools are where its at.

If I ever decide I absolutley HAVE to get a pool, I'll spend the extra $15000 on a real pool.

$15000? are you kidding me. Double that for anything decent.

I'm not kidding anyone $15k would get you a pretty freaking nice pool.

18K will get you an 18 x 36 in-ground, concrete and vinyl pool with 5ft of concrete on the perimeter for chairs and whatnot. The system is salt-water and low maintenance. It even comes with the Polaris cleaning system...for an extra 2k or so you can get a jacuzzi with infinity edge built in to one end of the pool that also serves as a 'waterfall' of sorts...very nice setup...

I know because that's what we're having built...

Sold when will you be by to install? Ill give you all cash for a deal like this.

I'm not sure what area you are in but in mine you can't touch something like that for under 40K.

southeast va

-fish

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"

- Mitch Hedberg

I was fully expecting this to be one of the first five responses to the thread.

I know! I had to skim all of them and there was nothing! WTF! That's like not asking for pics when someone mentions a girl...

 

[dakels]

I grew up with an above ground pool. We wanted to install an inground pool but ran into several roadblocks.

1: Zoning was a problem and due to safety we would have had to completely fence in and secure the back yard area around the pool.
2: Landscape concerns. Our back yard sloped, and had massive rocks making inground digging extremely difficult and requiring a very large excavator and possibly explosives.
3: Real estate agents said it would make the house harder to sell (at least that's what they said, never heard that before but it makes sense. Some people don't want pools and you can't get rid of an inground very easily like an above ground).

So we ended up getting a very nice above ground with changing depth 4-6'. My father also got a ridiculously overpowered heater which was rated for a pool 3 times the volume. Sure made cold fall nights nice to swim in. FWIW It was a great pool and nothing trashy about it at all.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
You should just dig a hole and put in a pond instead. Cheaper, you don't have to clean it, and you'll probably swim in it just as often as you would have swam in the pool.

I guess if you're in florida you have more then a month and a half to swim in the pool though. And you don't have to cover it and get it ready every spring. And the water probably isn't -400C most of the time.

no. ponds are for frogs, fish and lilies. frozen ponds are for hockey.

pool > pond