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Originally Posted by Oh Haha
We are thinking about going to a sand filter setup. Supposedly, it will save money in the long run as you will use less chemicals to keep the pool clean.
Ours is just an above ground one that you can buy at most stores.
Ideally, an inground would be the ticket but big $$$. We only get hot days for 3 months so the investment is hard to justify. Yeah, it would raise the property value but still....
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In AZ it is almost mandatory. When you buy a house they don't add but maybe 10-12k for a pool, in fact on our street of 6 houses, only one doesn't have a pool!
Once the kids are gone we will move to a place without a pool. It's s pretty big monthly expense to keep it up, even in winter. We have gotten to any water rationing yet, but that will make things interesting.
Is you filter now a cartridge type? Sand is probably the cheapest filter type to run, but most say the water doesn't get that same sparkle it does with DE. I'm not sure I can tell, but I'm not about to drop $500 to swap out filter types since ours is working fine!