Site Inspection to Determine the Price of Your Pool

Hi everyone, Steffan from Compass Pools here.

One of the most common questions I get asked is how much is my swimming pool going to cost? To be honest, that could be a bit of a hard question to answer straight off the cuff. The reason it’s a hard question to answer is simply because everybody’s backyard is different and so differ personal tastes, and I guess, therefore, everybody’s pool project is slightly different from the others.

In order to give you a really good understanding of what your pool project is likely to cost you, the best thing we can do is come out and have a look at your backyard, sit down and discuss with you what it is you’re looking for in your pool and then, once we know that information and we’ve identified any potential challenges that your site might have, we’ll be able to give you a really accurate idea of what your swimming pool’s likely to cost.

Guide to ‘Typical’ Swimming Pool Prices

But I know that what you’re after by watching today’s video is more of a broad guideline. The best way to give you that guideline is to introduce you to our X-Trainer pool range which is what we’ve got behind me here. The X-Trainer range is one of our more popular family pools and may range from 5.8 meters in length all the way up to 11.8 meters in length by 4.2 wide, so quite a big pool at that end of the scale.

Now, imagine at the small end of the scale you have a normal pool installation, lights, filtration equipment, standard filtration. At the other end, you might have the 11.8 meter X-Trainer with all of the bells and whistles that you can imagine like automatic chlorination, pH control systems and, of course, the Vantage self-cleaning system that Compass Pools is really famous for. So, at the entry point, you might be looking at a fully installed cost in the late 30s, let’s say. For that bigger pool with all of the bells and whistles, you might be looking at a total sum somewhere in the late 60s, early 70s. So, that’s a really big scale and, of course, it depends on lots of things like what challenges there are in your backyard. Are there access issues? What’s your soil like? What size pool did you choose and what bells and whistles and extra features would you like added to your pool project? So, somewhere in that scale from the 30s to the 70s depending entirely on your backyard and your preferences.

Cost to Operate Your New Pool

One of the things that I do encourage people to think about, though, is not just what is the pool going to cost to buy. Although that is really important, one of the things that is likely to have a bigger impact on you in the long-term is, actually, how much does it cost to own the pool. In other words, what does it cost to run it and what effort is involved in looking after it? So, if you make the right choices at the beginning and you focus particularly on ensuring your pool has good circulation, you can take steps to make sure that your pool running costs are kept to a bare minimum.

You see, the better your pool is circulated, if your water is circulated from top to bottom, bottom to top as opposed to just along the top of your pool, it will help you save so much money in the long run. You’ll cut your chemical consumption dramatically. You’ll spend less time having to manage your pool water because it’s moving regularly, and when it comes to heating your pool, you’ll find that it’s so much more efficient if you’re mixing the water everywhere. That’s where the Vantage system can come in handy. So, yes, Vantage does mean a larger investment at the beginning, but it will change your life as a pool owner. It will keep your running costs low and, of course, it’ll keep the effort that you have to put into looking after your pool to a bare minimum.

Swimming Pool as an Investment

So, there are a few things you should be thinking about if you’re thinking of investing in a swimming pool. Yes, the upfront cost is an important part in the decision making process and, as we’ve discovered, that range can actually be quite big depending on a number of factors, but the other thing is, how much is that pool going to cost and how much effort is it going to take to look after, because that’s what’s going to have the long-term impact on your enjoyment as a pool owner.

How much will a swimming pool cost & how to best compare swimming pool quotations?

The cost of your swimming pool will depend a great deal on the site it is to be installed on. We can send out one of our experts to assess your particular situation and give you sound advice about the best way to build. We will then be able to give you an idea of price, once we have assessed the conditions. Please call us on 1300 667 445 to tap into the great advice and expertise we are able to offer.

Video transcription: I get a lot of calls throughout the day from people who are in that early planning stage. The first thing they say is, I want a quote on an eight metre pool or a six metre pool or whatever it is. Realistically it’s hard to be able to do that. Putting the pool and all of the equipment and all of your choices aside, it’s about your site.

Being able to ballpark a pool on the costs, I don’t know if you’re on a slope. I don’t know if you need to have a standard bond beam on your pool. I don’t know if your pool is going to be raised up a little bit. I don’t know if you’re in the building stages and we might have to pop the pool in prior to the house being built.

There are lots of different things that can happen as a part of your site visit that are definitely worth bringing up rather than you making your own assumption as to what can and can’t be done. The things pool builders can do are endless. There is always a way.

Fundamentally the most important thing that you will do, rather than get the price over the phone, is have someone come to your site and look at what is involved in your project. They will then be able to recommend to you the smartest way to build it, based on your site and the things that you would like to have as part of your pool. I could not recommend it enough. Give one of the team a call today on 1300 667 445.

Get the swimming pool you want while working to your budget

Video transcription: As a pool planner, the number one question that I get asked nearly every day of my life is how much does that pool cost? It’s a great question, it really is, but the truthful answer is how long is a piece of string? It comes down to exactly what you want and on your site.

The things to think about in being able to even give you even a ballpark range is how big do you want your pool to be? Do you want it to be five metres or do you want it to be fifteen metres? Do you want to have a very automatic system so that you aren’t manually cleaning your pool, it’s looking after itself, it’s the easiest thing in the world to own? Do you want your pool to look spectacular at night with beautiful lights in it? Do you feel that you might want to heat this pool? Do you feel that you need to have a cover over this pool?

They’re all accessory type choices that you either need to do in the first instance or you can get them later. That’s a big deal to a lot of people, what is going to be a part of it. So you’ve got your pool and accessory type things as one of the main parts of your budget.

Then we move into what fundamentally is probably the most important part of it. That is the operating system. That is what it is like to own a pool. I often tell people, if you don’t really put much thought into it and you’re all about the cheapest quote, cheapest quote then that pool will likely, in my experience, be more expensive to own. For the sake of a ballpark figure, if you say, yes, I do want something energy efficient so my electricity bills aren’t going to skyrocket or anything like that, it makes sense to get equipment that is that little bit better. That is going to give you the room to move within a ballpark figure.

The operating system, the cleaning system of the pool, do you want to buy a robot cleaner, do you want to have in-floor cleaning in the pool, those types of things is the second part of where you should be aiming some of your budget for.

Then obviously you’ve got to build the pool. You’ve got your installation. You might have a beautiful site with nice topsoil or you might have a clay site, you might have a rock site. You might have that little bit tighter access. A crane may be required to lift your pool, or an excavator may be able to do it. Those things are apart from the options and choices and the nice things that you can have which are the smarter way to be able to pull back on things so you can actually build a pool within your budget.

What you do is you get a good understanding of what you have to make a decision on, what you have to do now, what you can’t do later. Things like pool heating, love it, fantastic, but you can do something like that a little bit later on.

For the pool built to a structural level, on average for most of my customers I would say anywhere from a five metre pool through to a twelve metre pool, from basic but nice with nice features in it, which make it easier to own, through to every bell and whistle you can possibly imagine on a pretty standard sort of a site, so not on a rooftop or a cliff face or anything like that, I would say you would want to budget anywhere from $28,000 through to maybe $50,000. Most of our customers would sit $30,000 to $35,000, $40,000, $45,000. It really depends on what they want and that’s how long is a piece of string. Give one of the team a call today on 1300 667 445.

How much does a swimming pool cost? Great advice for anyone doing research about buying a pool

Video transcription: Often people will walk into Compass or they’ll give us a call on the phone and they’ll say, how much for a swimming pool? It’s such a great question and is a difficult one to immediately answer. There are just so many different options and inclusions and site differences and things that are particular or may be particular about that pool. These will change the overall cost.

It’s not dissimilar from someone walking into a car yard where there are a whole range of cars on offer and saying, how much for a car? No one really does that because we’ve all been educated enough to know what a car is and that there are lots of different inclusions you can have.

The pool industry is not dissimilar except you probably don’t have as much information. You certainly will when you come and talk to us. If I was the salesman of a car and I said to you, would you like power steering and air conditioning with that car, you’d probably look at me today and think, this guy is crazy. Of course I want that.

There are very similar inclusions to power steering and air conditioning that you can put in your pool that are just as important as the way you see that in a motor car. They’re the things that we really want to drill down on and we’d like to talk to you about or at least make available to you. Then when you make a decision on this, you’re making a well informed decision for the long term. Give one of the team a call today on 1300 667 445.