"Richard J Kinch" wrote in message
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Then read my comments on the true cost of owning a swimming pool:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=true+cost+swimming+pool+author:kinch

I checked out your post, and enjoyed your anal-retentive analysis. And don't
get me wrong, that was a compliment. I could very easily have seen myself do
those exact calculations in the next few weeks. And I'll probably have a
spreadsheet to prove it. Anyway, You break the costs down by session, but do
you factor in number of people? That changes the numbers dramatically. Me
using the pool once a week is a very different usage pattern, then my wife
and kids in the pool during the day, maybe with friends, and then my wife
and I using it at night. Etc.

Like I said in an earlier post. We're backyard people. We are always
BBQ'ing, entertaining, etc. The cost per usage will be low in my estimation.

BV.