Recent content by mjcjives

Here's another recent photo showing the fencing that I have started. Our plans are to have the pickets put in horizontal instead of vertical to make it look a little different. These walls will be 6 fee with the exception of part of the back deck which is 4 feet high.

Here are a couple other pictures prior to winter. I was fortunate that our eave spout tiling went near the pool (blue arrow in picture), so was able to tie it to our 4 inch tile, so when draining the rain/snow, it made that process easy. As I built the walls, I used rebar both vertically and...

Sorry for the delay. So I started back at it again after a pretty cold winter with a fair amount of snow along with a couple weeks of blizzard. During the winter as you will see I worked on a deck that will wrap around the pool and we are putting up 6 foot fencing (horizontal) as well. Will...

How did you secure the PVC in the wall of the pool? I plan on drilling a hole through cinder block that the 1 1/2" PVC can fit through, but wondering the best way to secure it to keep it from moving aside from having the housing/brackets holding it on the outside of the pool wall. Just...

Quick question on skimmer (I purchased the Hayward SP1082 skimmer) and had questions on how you installed it. As you can see from the picture, the CMU blocks are 8 inches thick, and the "neck" on the skimmer is not long enough to extend to the other side of the block wall opening and wanted to...

Appreciate your help, was curious what you used to finish the ledge around the pool?

Thanks for the pictures. Do you happen to have picture or a link to the skimmer and returns that you used? So I found this online, is this what you meant by slip fit return...

Also... What did you decide on for return jets and skimmer? I have been looking online for return jets and/or skimmers that were designed for CMU, but no luck. Any advice on this would be great.