Reopening a very old pool
Need advice …
Just took on a new property that has a swimming pool, built in 1920, about 14’ deep. Last opened about 4 years ago, tons of debris and the equipment is mostly shot. There is a person who manages the property (and other properties with pools) who is mildly familiar with this pool helping me try to assess the situation and get it open again. Still holding water very well. I replaced the sand in the sand filter.
My question today - the pump motor is shot, I will be replacing the old Hayward superpump with a new pentair VS pump soon. But for the first cleaning and cycle of the pool, I am considering:
A) replace the motor only in the Hayward pump ($250) and wait to replace the whole pump until I’m sure the pool is salvageable. Or
B) getting a cheap Amazon pump ($300) to run through a few cycles, then replace it with the pentair pump later or
C) just get the pentair VS pump now and it should be fine or better on the first few cycles and worth getting it right the first time.
Advice?
And for context have never owned any pool before, but am a very solid DIYer and the property (300 year old barns etc) needs more $$ elsewhere besides the pool… so on a budget and not yet in a position to spend a lot on professional pool maintenance. Have had some folks come out and they just seem to see dollar signs when they see this pool :).