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Formula
Cost = water area × water price + deck area × deck price + equipment allowance.
Each price is yours. The pool cost calculator does not look up a regional average.
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Pool cost calculator from surface, deck, and equipment
This pool cost calculator multiplies water-surface area by a price per square foot you enter, adds a deck the same way, and adds an equipment allowance. None of the prices is a Dengaro quote. Volume of water is on the pool volume calculator. This page is the contractor's dollar sketch.
Estimate
$54,960.00
Pool surface$40,960.00
Deck$6,000.00
Equipment allowance$8,000.00
Planning estimate from the numbers you enter. Coverage, density, waste and price are assumptions, not a supplier quote or an engineering specification.
How it works
The total is surface, deck, and the equipment allowance.
Five hundred twelve square feet of water at $80 per square foot is $40,960. Four hundred square feet of deck at $15 is $6,000. An $8,000 equipment allowance brings the estimate to $54,960. Those prices are placeholders for excavation, shell, interior finish, and an equipment package you already priced. Coping, fence, permits, and haul-off are extra unless you fold them into one of the three numbers. A pool that is not a flat price per square foot, such as a vanishing edge, will not fit this form. Split it into pieces you can price. Depth does not appear anywhere on this page — a pool that averages eight feet instead of four holds twice the water on the same surface and usually costs more in excavation, steel, and interior finish. If the estimate you are comparing is priced by the gallon or by the perimeter, convert it into the surface price so the math stays honest. Shotcrete, gunite, liner, and fiberglass pools are priced differently enough that one number cannot stand in for all three; the per-square-foot figure is where that difference belongs. Site conditions go in the same place: rock, slope, access for the excavator, and haul-off distance change the real price without changing the square footage.
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Example
512 square feet at $80, 400 square feet of deck at $15, and $8,000 of equipment.
Water is $40,960. Deck is $6,000. The total estimate is $54,960. Change the equipment allowance when the pump and heater package is a real quote.
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Tips
Square feet of water are not gallons.
A deep pool can cost more per square foot than a play pool of the same surface. Put that difference in the price, not in a fake area. Use the pool volume calculator when the question is gallons, salt, or chemicals.
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Equipment
The excavator and the loader do the hole.
Dengaro arranges financing for an excavator or a skid steer. The pool estimate is not sent as a loan amount.
Important questions
Know what to expect.
Is $80 a real pool price?+
No. It is an example so the page is not blank. Shell type, access, and market move the real price. Type the number from your estimate.
What goes in the equipment allowance?+
The package you are pricing: pump, filter, heater, or automation. If that package is unknown, the allowance is a plug, and you should label it as a plug.
Does this include a fence or a permit?+
Only if you added that money to one of the fields. The form has no separate permit line.
Where is the gallon count?+
On the pool volume calculator. This pool cost calculator stays in square feet and dollars.
Why does the estimate move so much between bids?+
Because the same surface can carry very different scope — soil and access, shell type, interior finish, coping, and how much of the deck and equipment each bid includes. Label which of the three fields each number came from before comparing two bids.
Is the equipment allowance the monthly cost?+
No. It is the one-time package in the project — pump, filter, heater, or whatever you priced — not the chemical or utility bill. Operating cost is a different question and belongs in a cash flow view.
Financing built into the sale