It cost us about $1000 a year to run the pool, including all chemicals and electricity. 2x a week DH goes and takes the filters apart and degreases the cartridges which takes about a half hour. We bought a robot vac for the pool (ironically I won't buy one for the house bc they are like $500, but the pool one was $800!!! LOL I use the house more than the pool too!) so having that vac saves time with not having to manually vacuum the pool as much. Our pool is open roughly 5 months, mid-May to late Sept usually, but its not really warm enough to spend time in until mid June and stops being warm by mid-Sept, so the first 2 weeks and last 2 weeks are just bc I hate putting the cover on it and love taking the cover off of it! LOL
To me, it's worth the time and money!!
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