Pools - really think about how much it matters to you - Wife and I built a house in Brisbane and moved in just under a year ago. There's a few things we might do differently if building again but an absolute certainty is to never have a pool ever again. Cleaning out the filter for gum tree leaves yet again today after some high winds I'm just left with an ever enduring conclusion of why TF would anyone bother?

I had a pool when a child, my wife had one, our old house had a 9x4.5 and we now have a 6x3 Plungie. The wife thinks it's too small - yet never uses it or the one at our older house. The kids would go in it maybe once a week over summer. I like the beach more so only go in maybe 4 times a year. I can't stop thinking of the cost per use and further ongoing capital and operating cost.

The pool was part of the house package - \~$17.5k

Concreting and fencing ran out to \~$10k (was done at same time as driveway and some other work)

Initial water filtration and cleaning robot - $2.5k

Still needs tiling $7.5k - not spent

Refusing to get more furniture and a gazebo - $5k why throw more money away on something that isn't used.

Pool guys for chemicals and maintenance \~$1.5k p.a.

Power, everything runs on a timer but the filter runs a lot during the day - $xx p.a.

This is a super basic spec pool and it comes with great regret that we're sinking $40k on it. We could have bought a new car or just held the money in equity.

Does anyone think a pool is worth it? I honestly think concreting over it would be a good option at this point and installing a basketball hoop!