Thread: What are you working on?

My wife has wanted a pool for some time. In the end she decided that she wanted semiretirement more. Good luck with the pool Mike.
Tom I’ll be picking your brain in about a week about my truck problems.

I feel the same about pools up north as people from the north feel about hockey in Florida. Dat don't make no sense. How long do you get to use that thing, 2-3 months?

I'd rather drop hot coals in my pants than have a pool. The wife has been after me to get one and my answer is not only no but HELL no. Even in Miami that water gets a little cool in the winter for me and you can't drain it. A gunite pool can pop out of the ground like an empty soup bowl in a pot full of water. Or it will crack and fill up with ground water which is just a couple of feet below ground level. That's why nobody has a basement here. Also you can't cover it. It will turn into a green frog pond and you'll get The Creature From The Black Lagoon going on. So basically you are maintaining it all year whether you use it or not. I guess you could skate on it in the winter in the great white north.

I don't know bout all that, Paul. But I do know that the weather is about the same here, as it is down there, during summer, as for temps go, but our humidity is a bit higher.

Pool no, hot tub yes. I love my hot tub and use it even when it’s -40° C outside.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

I feel the same about pools up north as people from the north feel about hockey in Florida. Dat don't make no sense. How long do you get to use that thing, 2-3 months?

Even in Miami that water gets a little cool in the winter for me and you can't drain it.

My neighbor has an above ground pool. well although it's above ground it's set about 3 or 4 feet into the ground.

He warms his water up by running the water through a long black hose between the pump and the inlet. That water gets suprisingly warm going around his garden in the black hose on a hot sunny day.

Originally Posted by outback

I don't know bout all that, Paul. But I do know that the weather is about the same here, as it is down there, during summer, as for temps go, but our humidity is a bit higher.

You have 90s 8 months of the year (or more) and humidity higher than 90%?

Edit: check this out. Short video in Holiday FL, Pastor Co.
https://images.app.goo.gl/MneGSjT5CspAe1dB8

As said....during summer.

Well more what I'm saying is that man if you've got higher humidity than we do here that's high! This morning at 8:00 it was 80°, and 92% humidity. That's a little crisp for us this time of year


I don't fault anybody who wants a pool. It's nice to have in the summertime when it's hot and I like to swim as much as anybody else it's just boy is that a lot of work. Even here where you have at least 8 months of the year that you can use it that means that that's 4 months that you have to maintain it in which you can't use it. It's not a judgment for me. Hey, if you want to pool knock yourself out, invite me over to while you're at it I just don't want to maintain one myself. I don't want to maintain one here where you can use it most of the time. That just seems like such an awful lot of work up north where there's such a long period where all it's doing is taking up a big chunk of your backyard.
You know I have a really nice big wool over coat that I love but people make fun of me for having it, mostly people I know from up north. "When are you ever going to wear that thing?" Maybe it's a similar thing. No slight intended to anyone who wants to have a pool. If that's your thing enjoy it to the fullest and if you want to put in the work then God bless you for it.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

You have 90s 8 months of the year (or more) and humidity higher than 90%?

Edit: check this out. Short video in Holiday FL, Pastor Co.
https://images.app.goo.gl/MneGSjT5CspAe1dB8

I don't want to get into a p****ng contest with you Paul but Kingsville where I live, is the most southern town in Canada. South of Northern California and you can trust me when I say it is damn hot here and very humid, we get very little snow and it doesn't lay on the ground for more than a few days at a time.
Had a white Crimbo every year since I came to Canada, until I arrived in Kingsville 5 years ago, haven't seen a white Crimbly since I got in this neck of the woods.

Strangely, I shoveled snow by hand every year which is hard work in the great white north, then I came to Kingsville where it doesn't snow much and rushed to buy a snow blower before I even saw the first winter here. I start it up occasionally just to make sure I still can

We had pools at every home we built up until this house. When the kids were growing up and likewise the grandkids, I don’t care how much it cost or time it consumed it was dollars well spent, hell by the last house I just hired a maintenance company to take care or the pool, plus we always had an curb motorized cover you could actually walk across. But just me a momma we like a hot tub, oh and there’s not a lot of maintenance for salt water pools. So maybe those who dont like them are lazy or cheap, but hey we’re all different, I don’t like living near an ocean, fine for visiting but live. No