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when your car is parked. You will be glad you did. & you will see pool after pool. And you won’t see screened
• Speaking of parking your car, do not leave anything in pools like you find in Florida. We prefer our pools out
in your car in the summer that you don’t want to be in the open.
melted when you get back. That includes plastics, food,
electronics, toiletry items etc… What kind of pools do they build in Phoenix?- Almost
• If you are going outside for awhile, bring along a every pool built these days is what is called a “play pool.” I
shade hat call them “3-5-3 pools.” That means they are 3 ft deep on
• Don’t go hiking during the day in the summer! If you both ends and 5 ft deep in the middle. Great for playing
want to go hiking, it’s best to go very early in the pool volleyball. Due to liability you just don’t see builders
morning before the heat hits. The evenings are just as building pools with deep ends any more.
bad. Mornings are for hiking.
Do we heat our pools in Phoenix? - No. I get that
*Crazy fact: There have been many reports of a bottle question a lot. 99% of residents do not heat their pools
of water burning something in your car. The water in the during the winter. It’s just too expensive and there are
bottle refracts the sunlight and concentrates it on a plenty of months when it is hot outside and the pool
central point. Kind of like burning an ant with a feels refreshing.
magnifying glass. It’s best to keep any bottled water
under your seat. Although that water won’t be very How much does a pool cost to put in here in Phoenix?
refreshing once you get back into your car. A pool will typically start out around $20,000 and go up
from there. You can trick out your pool with things like a
pebble tech finish, waterfall, LED lights that change
colors, and even built in rock slides. The sky is the
limit when it comes to building a pool! Or if you want to
keep it budget friendly you can do the basics for around
$20,000. We don’t recommend installing above ground
pools because they will not add value to the house.

Chapter 13

Our Love Affair With Pools

I remember when I was a kid and would step off the plane
in Phoenix to visit family. I swear I could actually smell
the chlorine in the air. We have a love affair with pools in
Phoenix. As a matter of fact Phoenix ranks #1 in pools
per capita in the U.S. And we love them for good reason.
During the summer in Phoenix, you are either indoors,
swimming in a pool, or wishing you were indoors or
swimming in a pool Fly over any Phoenix neighborhood