Buying Home with 14 year old gunite pool- need advice on inspection

[kelemvor]

I've got a pool with a spillover hot tub. It's nice looking but you need to keep in mind you'll want to set the plumbing to drain from the hot tub and fill to the hot tub when you heat it up "hot". It would be expensive and probably not all that great feeling to heat the pool to 100 degrees. My heater will burn about 2 gallons of propane an hour if I run it that long and it takes about an hour to get a 1 degree temp rise in my whole pool. On the other hand, I can heat the spa only from under 60 to 100 in about an hour.

If the vacuum is running from a return, it's a pressure side vac. It may be that there is a dedicated vacuum line (mine has one) which other than having a cover over it instead of an "eye" looks the same.

If you go salt, you'll need to consider metals in the pool (such as the heater) as they will eventually corrode and need replacement. I've got a salt pool with a copper heater, eventually the heater will fail from the corrosion as I understand it.

[webfeet]

Thanks for the info! I want go salt, that is what I had before. But I didn't have a heater or a spa. So I will have to give a lot of consideration to my decision. I wonder what the average life of a heater is? Hmm... Any way, thanks for your input!