One thing that is often top of mind when buying a swimming pool is “will this be a good investment”. Naturally, when making improvements to your home, you want to ensure that you are being wise with the money you are spending.

The answer as to whether your pool will turn out to be a good purchase needs to be looked at from a few different angles.

A Swimming Pool will provide years of enjoyment, entertainment and health benefits to your family

Having a backyard pool can dramatically change your life at home for the better! Many families report that their swimming pool provides countless hours of entertainment for children (keeping active and away from screen time!), increases the amount of quality family time and can be used to boost fitness. Unlike spending money on a holiday, a swimming pool allows you to have resort-style living all summer long, every year!

If well-planned, a pool can add significant value to your home too

There tend to be two types of buyers in the housing market. The first group are the people who see a swimming pool in the backyard, and immediately see the house as a better option for them, thus a pool increases the perceived value of the property for this group of people.

The other group can see a swimming pool and wonder if it will be costly to run and take up too much time to keep clean and maintain. So it is essential that when buying a pool you investigate ways to make it appeal to as many people as possible.

A few simple considerations at the beginning of your pool buying process can make the world of difference when it comes to making sure your pool adds value to your home when the time comes to sell.

Here’s a few tips to help ensure your pool will add value to your home:

1. Consider location carefully

Take some time to think about the best area to place your pool. Be sure to think about sunshine, wind, proximity to the house, noise and aesthetics. Swimming pools are a great centrepiece of the backyard; in fact, you spend more time looking at them than you do swimming in them. The more appealing the pool looks from your living spaces, the better!

2. Choose your pool shape wisely

Like most things, pool shapes go in and out of fashion. For example in the 90’s kidney shaped pools were very common, but these days very few people buy them.  If you are thinking about future on-sale value it pays to choose shapes that have stood the test of time. Rectangular pools and pools with straight edges like the X-Trainer swimming pool and Vogue pool models have always remained best sellers because they seem to work in with most people’s tastes. Our Vogue swimming pool is a popular family pool.

3. Think carefully about depth

People often tell us they want their pool to be “as deep as possible” which is why we encourage you to think carefully about what depth will suit you best. Most people tend to enjoy their pool by standing and playing rather than actually swimming. This is one of the reasons we make the majority of our pools running shallow to deep; that way each pool model caters to people of different heights and abilities. Further to this, every model has a safety ledge running around the perimeter of the pool to allow a safe place to stand and rest.

4. Minimise effort

One of the things that can potentially scare people off swimming pools is the thought of having to look after it on a daily basis. It pays to think about the different things you can do to make your pool as “hands-free” as possible. In an ideal world, people want to be able to use their pool whenever they want with little preparation. These days swimming pools can be set up to be virtually hands-free. Our Vantage in-floor cleaning system ensures your water is properly circulated and that all debris is regularly removed from your pool without the need for manual cleaning or automatic vacuums. Our customers regularly report to us that this system has made their pool, and home easier to sell when on the market. It is one of the features you should go for when looking for “the best pool” that you’ll love. Integrated pool management systems can also be added to your pool. These essentially manage the day to day water chemistry in your swimming pool – all of the seemingly daunting work can now be managed by one simple machine.

5. Think about energy savings

The less your pool costs to run the better it is for you and the more attractive it will be to future buyers. Ask your pool consultant to walk you through the different options to help reduce power consumption. These days’ energy efficient pumps are very popular and come recommended by most pool dealers. But beware; when operating in reduced-flow mode you may find that your pool experiences a significant reduction in circulation quality. This often means you will end up spending more money trying to keep your pool water clean and healthy. The most effective way to have a low-energy pool is to mix energy efficient equipment with a circulation method that ensures maximum mixing water. Traditional circulation systems tend to only move/mix the top 2ft of water in your pool leaving the deeper water to become the perfect breeding ground for algae and bacteria.  Talk to us about the two different ways you can boost circulation, save energy and have healthier water in your pool.

One of the FREE services that all Compass Pools dealers offer is an onsite pool consultation. These meetings usually take 1-2 hours and are designed to help you get answers to all the important questions before investing in a pool.

Here’s a few of the questions we can help with on the day:

• Where is the best spot to put a pool?
• What size pool is ideal for my family?
• What shapes will work best for my backyard and budget?
• What can be done to reduce ongoing maintenance work?
• What can be done to reduce the power my pool will use?

Call us today on 1300 667 445 or find your local pool builder now.

Self-Cleaning Pool Customer Testimonials

Thanks to thousands of self-cleaning pool installations, we can provide an unlimited number of self-cleaning pool references to any prospective pool owner. If considering a pool, think of having an intelligent pool installed. To get in touch with happy Compass Pool owners, locate your closest Compass Pools dealer to arrange a free onsite consultation. Or learn more about pool cleaning and making smart pool decisions in our printed pool magazine that you can request for free.

Video transcription: We get a great number of people who come to us and talk to us about putting in their first or their second pool who are really well researched. The more research somebody does in the swimming pool market, the more likely they are to become a Compass customer.

We also get a really high percentage of people who are getting their second pool. They may not have got a pool from Compass where they were living originally. But if they’ve moved or they’ve built a new home and they decide that living with a pool is something that they don’t want to miss out on, it’s amazing how many of those people, for their second pool, come to Compass.

The reason is they’ve owned another product. They’ve owned a swimming pool that has no doubt taken them a fair bit of time and energy and investment to keep that pool looking and operating the way they want it to. They’ve had that experience and now they’re coming to Compass because they just don’t want to have that responsibility anymore. They’re generally looking for Compass’ exclusive Vantage in-floor cleaning and circulation system.

If you’re busy and you really want to own a pool but you’re concerned or put off by all the work friends and other people have told you is associated with a swimming pool, come and talk to us. We’ll show you how we can make that work disappear. Give one of the team a call today on 1300 667 445.

What are the main benefits of pool circulation systems?

Video transcription: With ten years’ experience working with Compass Pools, probably the biggest inclusion for a swimming pool that makes the biggest difference when I talk to people and revisit pool owners is certainly the Vantage in-floor cleaning and circulation system. Everyone gets really excited by the fact that it cleans the swimming pool. That’s a great thing and we love the fact that it does. But the in-floor cleaning and circulation is so much more than that.

It’s a system that is designed to effectively circulate the pool water. Let’s face it, a swimming pool is very similar to a bath, it’s just a lot bigger. If you get in the bath at night and make the water all dirty, when you get out you can pull the plug. You can’t pull the plug easily on your swimming pool. So some time ago, the industry determined, how do we make that pool healthy? To do it, we’ve done it through the use of sanitisers and a fairly basic circulation system.

That circulation system consists of a skimmer box. That skimmer box system, which is installed at the top of the pool, is the only exit point for water. This is a real challenge because that system is purely taking the water from the very top of the pool, taking it usually through a pump, a filter, a sanitiser and then returning it at the opposite end of the pool, generally through two return lines.

Anybody who works in the pool industry knows that is a fairly ineffective way to treat water. How we know this is, if you go up and put your foot into the top layer of the swimming pool and say, that feels nice, and then you dive into that pool, you’re going to get a very distinct temperature difference. The water on the top is heated by the sun that continually travels across the pool and that warm water actually accumulates or lifts up all the chemicals. So they sit very concentrated in that top layer of pool water.

The idea with an in-floor cleaning and circulation system is to stir that chemical right back through the pool so we have a chemically treated pool that is healthy from top to bottom. All the chemicals don’t just stay in the top layer where they are getting evaporated and you’re having to spend more money trying to make that pool look after itself. Circulation is one of those fundamental aspects that we really want to get right in the swimming pool.

Not only does Compass have its Vantage in-floor cleaning and circulation system but Compass also has another system that is designed to circulate water effectively. This is fundamentally different from what any other pool manufacturer is producing today. The benefit of these systems is not only do we get a healthy pool from top to bottom, we also get a pool temperature that is even right throughout the pool.

We’re able to reduce the chemical consumption within the swimming pool and we’re also effectively able to reduce the electricity draw on the pool from having water so effectively turned over in the swimming pool and by the ability to employ energy efficient pumps with both of those systems.

There are lots of different options when it comes to the inclusions you choose with your Compass pool. Each of those options that suit a range of budgets have been carefully considered to ensure that we’re doing the absolute utmost in how we treat that water, how we effectively turn and stir that water through the pool. We want to ensure that we make it healthy for everybody to swim in that pool with the least possible effort, time and energy having to be spent on your pool. Give one of the team a call today on 1300 667 445.

Looking for a self cleaning pool: discover the in-floor cleaning and circulation system

Video transcription: One of the exciting things about working here is I can’t tell you the number of times that somebody has walked in the door or I’ve turned up at somebody’s house and I’ve said, how did you hear about Compass Pools? They’ve said, Joe down the road, has one of your pools, he’s had it for eight years and he’s never cleaned it. We hear that a lot. The reason for that is that Compass Pools was the first company in the world to create the world’s first in floor cleaning and circulation system for fibreglass pools.

That’s not something you have to have but it is pretty hard for us to install a pool today without somebody giving it really serious consideration or adding it to their swimming pool.

When we talk about in-floor cleaning and circulation it’s really important not just to think about the system as a cleaning system. It’s so much more. In fact the first systems were designed to circulate water. That is the real challenge swimming pools have.

The exclusive Paramount Vantage in-floor cleaning and circulation system and exclusive to Compass is more than just a cleaning system. It’s a system that is designed to circulate water effectively. This means the distribution of chemicals right throughout the pool, proper circulation that reduces the pool’s consumption of pool chemicals. It gives us the ability to properly connect other features such as energy efficient pumps with the pool. It ensures that we run them in such an effective way that we’re really reducing the overall cost associated with owning a swimming pool. This is all with the benefit of not having to put any effort into cleaning. Give one of the team a call today on 1300 667 445.