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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3981060" data-attributes="member: 2810">My parents (in FL)  just put one in.  25x10 or thereabouts.  Pre-formed fiberglass.  It's nice.  I like it better than the concrete and marsite pool at the old house.  It doesn't seem to get as dirty, and it's easier on the feet.  This one is chlorine; the old one was salt, which was a *ton* better IMO, and Dad's already said he's going to yank the chlorine system out and replace it with salt this summer.They found an never-used electric heater for dirt cheap at an estate sale.  With a thermal blanket covering the pool when they're not using it, it runs for a couple hours a day and keeps the pool in the mid 80s.  He did about have heart failure when he got the first electric bill, but that included the additional time needed to raise the temp from the low-60s it started at.  Since then, it loses about 4-5 degrees at night and doesn't take as much effort to warm up.Their neighbor has a propane heating system with no thermal blanket, and they said they spend $400+ a month heating it, which is probably more than double what Dad's will be when it settles down.</blockquote>