Does your home have a pool or hot tub?

[TribalElder]

Never understood why the enclosed pool trend didn't take off as a thing around here

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[DeepPurple]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Never understood why the enclosed pool trend didn't take off as a thing around here

example

That's called a birdcage pool in Florida. Here in The Villages we have about 60,000 homes, population 132,000 all seniors. I would estimate 40% of the homes have that setup. Privacy fences or any kind of fence is not allowed, and Florida law requires a pool to have a fence or birdcage. So you can't have one without the other. A birdcage about that size will cost about $10,000 to $12,000 here. It's a really a luxury because at my disposal I have 4 large community pools within a mile of my home I can use.

I previously lived in Pensacola and I never saw a birdcage there, they don't offer them there. Areas further north if they have any snow fall that would crush the birdcage. The biggest problem in Pensacola wasn't snow fall but the panhandle of Florida gets hit by so many hurricanes, they would turn a birdcage into a erector set.

In 1979 at my home in Pensacola I had a vinyl pool installed. A 16 x 32 and it was $5,000. For example, here where I live 60 miles NW of Orlando, no contractor offers vinyl pools, it's all gunite and a pool about that size above would be about $50,000 to $60,000 plus the birdcage. Part of problem is everything is higher priced here in The Villages.

If anyone ever said a vinyl pool won't last, here is my $5,000 vinyl pool just after it was installed in 1979 in Pensacola.



About five years ago I looked up the address and the home was for sale on Zillow, this is the same pool 35 years later.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

That's called a birdcage pool in Florida. ...

Are those enclosed in glass or chain link or something else? Are they closed in to the point where they can be air conditioned? I've seen those in pictures, but I can't tell what they're made of.

[scho63]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

That's called a birdcage pool in Florida. Here in The Villages we have about 60,000 homes, population 132,000 all seniors. I would estimate 40% of the homes have that setup. Privacy fences or any kind of fence is not allowed, and Florida law requires a pool to have a fence or birdcage. So you can't have one without the other. A birdcage about that size will cost about $10,000 to $12,000 here. It's a really a luxury because at my disposal I have 4 large community pools within a mile of my home I can use.

I previously lived in Pensacola and I never saw a birdcage there, they don't offer them there. Areas further north if they have any snow fall that would crush the birdcage. The biggest problem in Pensacola wasn't snow fall but the panhandle of Florida gets hit by so many hurricanes, they would turn a birdcage into a erector set.

In 1979 at my home in Pensacola I had a vinyl pool installed. A 16 x 32 and it was $5,000. For example, here where I live 60 miles NW of Orlando, no contractor offers vinyl pools, it's all gunite and a pool about that size above would be about $50,000 to $60,000 plus the birdcage. Part of problem is everything is higher priced here in The Villages.

If anyone ever said a vinyl pool won't last, here is my $5,000 vinyl pool just after it was installed in 1979 in Pensacola.



About five years ago I looked up the address and the home was for sale on Zillow, this is the same pool 35 years later.

Looks like a new liner but still, 35 years is pretty damn good for the shell to last.