Should I pay my contractor more than he quoted me?

[Gogar]

If the job's done,

And you feel right about the money,

Then we're all good!!!

The price went up, like you and me and everyone knew it would, but that's ok.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by chocolatelab

Rick

When i lived in scottsdale i did my own pool. If i remember it was fairly straight forward.

Run the pump at night, and run it for 1 hour for every 10 degrees over 60....???? Now I cant remember the hours. Someone in your neighborhood knows for sure.

For chemicals it was no more then a gallon of acid and clorine each week durring the summer. Substantially less during the winter.

Plus the afternoon pool scrub with the cold beer once a week.

Chris,

We used to do one hour for every hour of sunlight, and did that for many years. The last couple of years I have knocked it down to keeping the pool pump on 3 hours a day and thats it. It starts at just before 6 and turns off right before 9 am, before the price for electricity goes up.

I do four tabs of chlorine in the pool a week and have done this for years. Checks with the pool place show good. Dump some "extras" in from time to time but so far (and I have been here 10 years now) its doing fine.

Joe A