My kids are 3 and 1. We hopefully won’t be in this house more than another year or two.

You’d be insane to fill a pool in a house you’re going to sell. Unless you just hate money.

I loathe maintaining the pool that much lol.

I loathe maintaining the pool that much lol.

If it’s that much work you are doing it wrong. I’ve had a poop for almost 15 years and the upkeep is negligible if you just spend a few minutes with it a few times per week. Of course if you have lots of trees that changes the game a bit. But still the selling point is a bonus if you are thinking of selling soon.

Build a shop over it and use the bottom room for man cave… make a crappie pond out of it, just two of the things I’ve seen friends do to their pools.

If you plan on moving in a year or even two, you would come out cheaper to hire a company to maintain it for you on a monthly basis, then sell the house with a pool, than you would by filling it in.

My kids are 3 and 1. We hopefully won’t be in this house more than another year or two.

Build a shop over it and use the bottom room for man cave… make a crappie pond out of it, just two of the things I’ve seen friends do to their pools.

I have a 20x40’ hole in my backyard which used to be a pool. At some point it developed a leak, the water level dropped and the old, mostly rotted plywood that made the backing for the liner warped and tore the liner all up. This was over 12 years ago and then I was quoted $26K to build a smaller pool inside it or $35K to rebuild the same dimensions. Now this pool is surrounded by the typical 4” concrete lip but that is covered in natural flagstone. It all sits under a metal roofed steel structure which is 60x32’. Did I mention this pool was initially built without a bottom drain. Cleanup was a pain and, without cycling the water from the bottom, the pool stayed unpleasantly cold. It’d get to about 72 degrees by August, on top, but it was still 52 where your toes were.
I wasn’t sad to see it made a dry hole but it leaves me with an eyesore and wasted space. I’ve gone round and round about filling it(a massive undertaking that will require a dingo or the like to put all the dirt in) and using it for outdoor entertaining, and as a conservatory of sorts got my most tropical of plants. I considered having a modified pool/giant hot tub made with gunite or shot-Crete. But I’m leaning hard toward a partial fill and then making a swimming pond. I already have a small 2700gal koi pond but I’d like a large swimming pond that doubles as a koi/goldfish pond. I’ll pull the metal and go back with the screen like I’ve seen for pool enclosures.