Pool Chemicals
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Pool Chemicals
Our pool has just been finished. Can anyone tell me the going rate for chlorine and algicide for pools, or point me to an Italian website (preferebly with English version) where I can source them?
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Margaret,
A pool of 25m x 8m is a “big” pool. The human eye accepts the proportions of 2x1 as being in perfect balance so yours a bit long and a bit thin but it is nevertheless “big”.
If your quotation of €150 a month is just for chemicals and does not include any labour at all your quotation is outrageously expensive, somebody is trying to take you to the cleaners; at least by my local French prices they are.
For the past 8 years I have run my own 12mx6mx2.5m pool; I don’t economise on the use of chemicals and I spend a maximum of €400 a year on chemicals.
Alan
A pool of 25m x 8m is a “big” pool. The human eye accepts the proportions of 2x1 as being in perfect balance so yours a bit long and a bit thin but it is nevertheless “big”.
If your quotation of €150 a month is just for chemicals and does not include any labour at all your quotation is outrageously expensive, somebody is trying to take you to the cleaners; at least by my local French prices they are.
For the past 8 years I have run my own 12mx6mx2.5m pool; I don’t economise on the use of chemicals and I spend a maximum of €400 a year on chemicals.
Alan
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Well the width was dictated by the piece of ground we had available, and hubby wanted a decent length to swim in - his definition of decent length, not mine.
That is what we thought on the cost of chemicals. I guess ours is roughly 2.5 times the size of yours so by that reckoning we should maybe be looking at 1000 euros for chemicals, and they are looking to charge 1800. Definitely time to find a supplier locally we can use.
That is what we thought on the cost of chemicals. I guess ours is roughly 2.5 times the size of yours so by that reckoning we should maybe be looking at 1000 euros for chemicals, and they are looking to charge 1800. Definitely time to find a supplier locally we can use.
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I was brought up on 25m pool so I think hubby is right. As someone who was brought up on swimming lengths I was never too worried about the width.The Olive Grove wrote:Well the width was dictated by the piece of ground we had available, and hubby wanted a decent length to swim in - his definition of decent length, not mine.
That is what we thought on the cost of chemicals. I guess ours is roughly 2.5 times the size of yours so by that reckoning we should maybe be looking at 1000 euros for chemicals, and they are looking to charge 1800. Definitely time to find a supplier locally we can use.
If the prices of chemicals are about the same in Italy as they are in France I think you should not be spending more that €1000 per annum.
Alan
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