Do pools take a lot of effort to maintain?
Not really. Some degree of maintenance is always required and a swimming pool will need some of your time. You can expect to spend approximately one hour each week testing, chemicalising and cleaning. There are many products available which automatically clean and chemicalise a pool so cutting down the amount of time you personally need to spend doing these jobs. Of course if you neglect it the effort required to sort out any problems will be much greater than normal.