A house we are interested in has a pool 5M by 10M and it will need a new liner. I have absolutely no idea how much they cost or how much it costs to empty and refill the pool. I can only find comments from several years ago. There’s a septic tank so I assume the water would be pumped out into a tanker. Would that same water be used to refill? Is it a big job to convert to a salt water pool?
Same water as what? What’s the septic tank got to do with the pool?
If this is a separate subject - when a septic tank is emptied you just start using it - soon fills up. It’s worth getting a pack of septic tank regeneration powder - tip the lot down the loo and flush - helps multiply the bacteria and reduce any smell as the tank re-establishes itself.
Pool liner costs? Worth talking to a pool company - depends on quality / colour/ what goes under the liner to protect it. Do you know what the people who currently live there are paying for their water. Multiply that by the cubic size of the pool.
NB: where are you thinking of buying? Are you sure you can empty and refill the pool. No everywhere in France is off water rationing.
Just water the garden with the old water, just let chlorine level drop to zero.
Cost of hiring a tanker, huge compared to filling with fresh.
Cost of a liner, as Sue said local Co. They will almost certainly want to replace the felt backing as well for their own guarantee sake.
Multiply the volume of your pool by the cost of your water and cost of the water they didnt take away for treatment but you still have to pay.
The pool water is chlorinated. I had assumed one couldn’t empty it unless the house had mains drainage. Thinking about it does it drain into the same soakaway as rainwater? Wouldn’t the chlorination affect plants? You can see I need to swot up.
It’s south of Cahors in the Lot.
As I said the chlorine can be allowed to drop to zero and then no problem. If you are in a hurry then use dechlorinator. No the 1-3 ppm parts per million of chlorine to water will not hurt most plants
How long does that take? Would the level drop enough in a week or two?
‘cost of the water they didnt take away for treatment but you still have to pay’
Not sure I understand this
Normally any chlorine at say 1-3 ppm would dissipate in a week in the cleanest pool. Even with a high level of cyanuric acid and clean water 2 weeks would see the chlorine gone, if it rains then gone a lot sooner. If there is no CYA the chlorine would be gone in 1 day in sunshine.
If you are on mains drainage you pay for supplied water and also for the water they believe they treated that you must have put into their sewer. If you are on septic system its one less bill to worry about.
There’s still a "pollution " charge
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Is there? Please explain.
I’ll dig a bill out tomorrow to check, but it’s "redevance pollution " and based on your water consumption. Its not a massive amount, but it exists (and for fosse septiques). It was introduced (as far as I can remember) when SPANC was formed back in 2008 as a result of those on mains drains bitching about the unfairness of those with fosses not paying for waste.
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Ah, sorry, didn’t understand. Never thought about it when we replaced our liner, but we live surrounded by farmland. We just pumped ours out and it ran down the gulley between our land and the farmer’s., which is where the backwash water goes - never noticed his crops suffer at all.
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A liner for that size pool will easily be over 6K, I’d be asking for a price reduction.
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My grass and shrubs have never shown signs of any ill effects from being irrigated with filter backwash and regular pool water.
Replacement water cost is easy. Volume x cost per cubic meter.
Enjoy the new “demand reactive” pricing!
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You get charged a pollution charge in your water bill, even if you are on septic tank outflow. It is calculated on your water consumption
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Thanks, saves me looking 
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Which is actually pretty ironic given that where live, we have no infrastructure whatsoever for the treatment of said “pollution”, the nearest water treatment works being upstream. None of the hamlet’s buildings have mains sewage, everything filters onto a respective patch of land, which then gets washed into the ditches, and from the ditches flows directly into the local stream. With an average of 10-12 households per hamlet and approximately 15 hamlets downstream of the local treatment works, with 1/3 of those households being farms, that’s a fairly significant amount of “untreated” (albeit partially ground filtered) runoff that ends up directly in the stream. Above all else, the amount of cow dung dumped within 5 metres of a rain ditch or within 100m of a stream is enormous around here, and nobody seems to give a care in the world.
Looks like that brilliant idea to charge for something they are not doing came in just after we changed to mains drainage.
So if you discharge your water onto your freehold land, they charge you for it, fabulous!
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An 8x4m liner was €4000 by a local pool company, I charged €1400 for labour and the liner was much the same at €1400 but that was 10 years back so no doubt prices have risen.
As a matter of interest what is the general life of a pool liner as also considering that now myself, in my quest to decide what to do with my pool?
Do water prices vary much across the country? Any example figures please?
What about converting to salt water? Can this be done easily - has anyone done this?