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So what's the median household Income in 2025? $80k?
You won't be ablet to build pool like that for $40K nowdays.
Just three years ago had one dug and put in with heated, and some other fancy features including slide for $60k.
3y ago! Check how much your pool will cost now. $100k?
Yeah crazy . Not worth it at that price.
Especially in North East... where you can use it for 3 months if you are lucky
Add a heater and you’ll get April to Sept
With an $800 / month gas bill (well, for April and May at least here in the south plains)
Ask me how I know! 😂
Use mine from onset June through October now. Don’t even need a heater.
You mean into October. No way in hell you're using a non-heated pool on Halloween in the Northeast
100% did this past year and the one before. We had temps in the 80s often through October this year. I’m downstate, which may be the difference, but three months is a huge exaggeration either way.
Not us. No heater and we’re looking at mid/late June through mid September.
Agreed - we used ours in the NE from May to Sept last year and May to October the year prior without the heater.
Nah, pool tech said they were doing them for about the same. I had a bit of pandemic pricing still.
Send me their website. Do they install in NJ? 🙃
New Mexico.
I think a huge chunk of it is just competition. A couple of young guys broke off and started their own pool companies and are competing for business.
My tree trimming prices dropped by more than half once a new guy came in and started his own business.
It just doesn’t seem like people in their late 20’s or early 30’s are starting their own businesses, so prices just rise.
That's interesting, we're seeing somewhat of the opposite here in southern California.
COVID really helped to cut out a lot of the competition, and after the pandemic there was a sort of "the good ones now know they're the good ones" scenario.
What we have now within the industry is that half the companies are charging top-dollar because they know they can.
The other half is undercutting to compete and get a foot in the market. However, lack of experience, resources and capital prevents them from being able to fix their mistakes so they eventually fold & close.
How many gallons
Mine was $47k for 16x38 vinyl, cuddle cove, Pentair equipment with vsp and heater. I’ve heard it varies a lot depending on location. This is in upstate NY last summer.
Wow. Wish they had same prices in NJ. Gave up last year when was getting $100k+ quotes
Yeah… we installed our 18x36 vinyl pool with heater in 2007 for around $37K. We replaced the liner 3 years ago and that set us back $4500 😳
I’d hate to see what it would cost to replace.
But the pool is just one piece of the backyard expense. Add paver patio, pool shed, landscaping, lighting, etc and you can easily double your base cost.
I have an old 1980 sylvan pool here in NJ. Was quoted 60k to refinish and redo all the concrete decking.
100k for vinyl? My 17x34" gunite pool with a spa, heater, raised wall along one length and 2 water features was like 105k last year in NJ. Vinyl is much cheaper. Like half the price at most. 40-50k
Is that just the pool? I did an 12x24 vinyl with full length steps, cantilever coping, brushed (not stamped) concrete with an extra 250sf or so beyond the included 3 foot surround with swg, vsp and a heat pump for like 68 in Saratoga. After the rest of the landscaping and fencing we were closer to 85 and I did the lawn part myself (40 yards of topsoil spread, seeded, covered with mulch.
Yeah just the pool. Concrete was separate
How far upstate we talking? I'm looking to get a pool in upstate NY too, Ulster County. Appreciate any info.
Syracuse area
Upstate NY 2016 my 14x32 vinyl, sun ledge and all my extra concrete was $27k in 2016. Feels like a world away, though with your heater and VSP not too bad all things considered
Not really that far off - online says the average vinyl pool install falls between 35-65k.
Yeah but that’s just the pool. Not the build, labor or hardscaping. And that’s bare bones basic.
That’s the pool and installation , which includes some amount of basic decking just like OP has.
In my area definitely not (not now anyways) but even if that is the case 35k at your low minimum is still a far cry from 14k 🤷🏽♀️
35k is almost exactly the same as the value of that 14k.
That sounds about right, one of my local pool builders that posts on Facebook all the time says they are typically about $50,000 on average.
Local pool place that sold us all our replacement equipment set a new build pool would run around 70K now.
In Ontario you can't really build a pool for less than 100k, just installed a liner the other day that was 18k
Huh? I'm in Quebec and my neighbour just had one installed on his 80,000 liter pool and his was $7200.
If you're talking a liner install this was a very large pool, with a very complicated step sunledge combo all vinyl. A lot of the cost comes from the complicated steps
Still sounds bloody expensive.
that is horseshit
Huh?
You might be able to depending on where you are. Vinyl pools cost less. A fiberglass or Gunite pool will almost certainly cost 100k. But even that depends where you are
Adjusted for inflation that would be 34,000.00 in today’s dollars. 🤷♂️
80k? Hilarious. Not even close.
Vinyl pools are kinda cheap...
61K is median