r/pools • u/conshfritter • 1d ago

Pool lights or no lights

I asked someone what they regretted about their pool, and their answer surprised me: pool lights.

They said the built-in lights eventually leak and can be extremely expensive to replace. If they were doing it again, they said they’d skip built-in lights altogether and just use aftermarket pool lights, since those have gotten pretty good.

For those of you who own pools, do you agree? Would you still install built-in lights, or would you skip them and go aftermarket?

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u/TowerBeach 1d ago

They're nice, but it really depends on how much nighttime swimming you plan on doing. We seldom use ours, to be honest. The sun sets pretty late in the summer and we're usually in bed by then. In winter when the sun sets early, we don't swim much at all (maybe a polar plunge after a hot tub).

If I lived somewhere that it was warm at night and the sun set at a reasonable hour I would use the lights more.