So the spouse is getting fairly interested in a pool. I designed our house is such a way that off the concrete deck is perfect for a pool, ingress from the major road is right there, and there is about a 4’ easy drop in grade over 40’ or so. IE, a lot less excavation. The lot itself is on almost solid limestone with a layer of flint below it, so it’s solid, but it’s also hard to remove material (you need a rock ram).
We don’t want a massive pool and moderate gunite pools of 15-20k gallons are running $150-175k.
So we’ve been looking at pre-cast concrete pools like [Plungie]. It arrives on a truck, you drop it on an excavated 6" slab, and backfill. It’d be easy to set it level with my porch about 4’ away. Bids on this (with 4’ of deck) are coming in at $90k, which seems a bit nutty to me for a 10x20’ pool that probably costs $35k dropped in with a crane. A buddy has one and we spent the weekend in it and it’s perfect for our use.
There are fiberglass pools, but I have not seen them in the area and there is probably a reason for that.
I’m not really wanting to completely roll my own pool, but interested to hear what other people have to say.
I understand that pool prices are likely very regional and demand based.