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Post by fishnfool on Sept 5, 2023 15:08:16 GMT -5
BTW it's so effing hot here I just jumped into my pool after cutting the grass. I hope you rinsed your feet first.
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Post by fishnfool on Sept 5, 2023 15:09:55 GMT -5
I'm curious, what is the range your seeing for a basic pool that size? My wife hit me with, maybe we should get a pool the other day..... For a turnkey build excluding hardscaping $90k - $116k. That price is for a 30 yr plaster including a heater If you did just the basic white plaster, coping, equipment cost would be +/-20% lower.
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Post by finatic on Sept 5, 2023 16:04:42 GMT -5
A sprinkle home depot $9 for the cheap one or $16 for top of the line. Benefits water the lawn and the family gets a workout running in and out. Now that's Memories they will bust your chops on for years. 🤣🤣🤣
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Post by footy3 on Sept 6, 2023 6:36:48 GMT -5
I'm curious, what is the range your seeing for a basic pool that size? My wife hit me with, maybe we should get a pool the other day..... For a turnkey build excluding hardscaping $90k - $116k. That price is for a 30 yr plaster including a heater If you did just the basic white plaster, coping, equipment cost would be +/-20% lower. Thanks, I think if we do it we will probably go with a fiberglass drop in pool. Hopefully this too shall pass.....
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Post by nickbhw on Sept 7, 2023 7:20:07 GMT -5
A sprinkle home depot $9 for the cheap one or $16 for top of the line. Benefits water the lawn and the family gets a workout running in and out. Now that's Memories they will bust your chops on for years. 🤣🤣🤣
When my son was 2, I set up the sprinkler AND a bubble machine. I was the coolest dad ever that day.
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Post by finatic on Sept 7, 2023 12:36:31 GMT -5
You guys do know I'm just messing with Chris. He hammers me enough so I saw a small opening I just couldn't pass🤣
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Post by jerryk on Sept 7, 2023 12:54:37 GMT -5
You have to give your kids the opportunity to someday reminisce about how tough they had it back in the old days. Like we had by walking to school uphill both ways in deep snow. Drinking water directly from the garden hose. Having BB gun fights with your friends. Blowing up model cars you made with firecrackers and either going deaf or blowing your fingers off. Jumping into the round 24" deep pool out on the patio and hitting hard bottom, which was just the concrete bottom of the patio with the thin vinyl pool liner over top of it. The dangers of riding in cars across railroad crossings without gates, without child car seats or seat belts while inhaling your parents' cigarette smoke. Get 'em a real pool and you'll ruin their childhood and make them loose all bragging rights as adults I say. Attachments:
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Post by nickbhw on Sept 7, 2023 13:15:32 GMT -5
Haha. Sounds fun. When I was 5, me, my brother and my neighbor were all walking around with glass bottles to see who could fill theirs with the most pee. I was winning. They chased me around the yard to get my pee bottle. I fell. The bottle broke. I got stitches. The ER doctor didn't seemed surprised by what happened. I still have the scar.
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Post by fishnfool on Sept 7, 2023 14:07:18 GMT -5
Sprinkler? NO WAY, they'll ruin my grass.
Now get off my lawn!
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Post by finatic on Sept 7, 2023 14:47:41 GMT -5
Sprinkler? NO WAY, they'll ruin my grass. Now get off my lawn One thought,,, OCD 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by jerryk on Sept 7, 2023 14:49:49 GMT -5
Oh, Chris...so you're one of THOSE guys huh? We had a guy like that our neighborhood when I was growing up. Funny, it was always HIS house that got egged on Halloween. I honestly don't know why, and it wasn't me I promise. Yet I do still remember the pain inflicted by having to walk barefooted over the sealcoat covered pebble street that we lived on to get to my buddy's house on the other side of the picky guy's grassy lot. All because he wouldn't let us walk on his grass. And his grass didn't look any better than anyone else's either, it just was softer and cooler on the feet than the street coating. Never forgot that guy, nor forgave him.
Good luck with your pool project, and I look forward to the first annual Sailfish Owners' forum pool party!
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Post by fishnfool on Sept 7, 2023 18:34:53 GMT -5
And I'll put you up at my house with home cooked meals every night!
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Post by hookedup on Sept 12, 2023 8:10:13 GMT -5
Oh, Chris...so you're one of THOSE guys huh? We had a guy like that our neighborhood when I was growing up. Funny, it was always HIS house that got egged on Halloween. I honestly don't know why, and it wasn't me I promise. Yet I do still remember the pain inflicted by having to walk barefooted over the sealcoat covered pebble street that we lived on to get to my buddy's house on the other side of the picky guy's grassy lot. All because he wouldn't let us walk on his grass. And his grass didn't look any better than anyone else's either, it just was softer and cooler on the feet than the street coating. Never forgot that guy, nor forgave him. Good luck with your pool project, and I look forward to the first annual Sailfish Owners' forum pool party! Had one of those guys in my neighborhood as a kid. We were passing a football in the street and it ended up in his yard. He saw us coming to get it and yelled to keep off the grass and took the football into his house. Being kids of course we got even. New Year's eve when fireworks were going off everywhere, we got on the roof of the house and used slingshots and cherry bombs. Probably didn't really do much damage to his yard, but his coming out and getting all upset was great. He never figured out it was us and we aggravated him for about half an hour, shoot fireworks, then hiding and listening to him fuss, them more fireworks.
Those were some good times.
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