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No real progress over the past week with rain almost every day. Just took down a few more trees. We did have an interesting visitor though! I had planned on sitting the screen structure on a brick knee wall as we have large dogs. This just adds another reason to do that. My collection of...

You can't leave this thread this way? Did everything get resolved? Tile finished? :)

I saw that you had the 5 microbrites but I wasn't even thinking about the landscape lighting! I just bought a new 100w transformer and was worried I misunderstood how many I could run off of one transformer. And I like that switched outlet idea for the robot - there goes another one of my...

Thank you! I was planning a passive air, but I have not worked out whether to give each return a dedicated feed, shared feed between the two in each seat, or all four having a shared feed. You have a very nice pool and I like your fire bowl with planters idea. :) Why did you go with (2) 100w...

I would not be concerned for the pool. Consider it extra water for curing.

I knew that we had a high water table in coastal GA and that I would need to plan for that. But I wanted to dig into that a bit more first. So I dug. A bit before 4' down, the dirt gets wet. After letting the hole sit over night, there is a small puddle in there. My goal is to schedule a dig in...

I am hopeful that the screen + garden section being on the opposite side will help keep that southern wall from being too much of a pain. I had another design that jutted the pool against the shallow entrance so that the enclosure wasn't so long. The lack of symmetry bothered me though. I am...

You said this earlier but it just clicked in for me. The Pool Returns and Bench Jets should be treated as a pool/spa mode. I reworked the plumbing diagram a bit to reflect that on/off state. After reading the Chiller manual, I removed the chiller line/bypass. It looks easy enough to add in later...

I do plan on sub-contracting out the rebar, concrete, and the pool finish (the wife is in love with Pebblesheen - Turtle Bay but she hasn't seen/felt it in person). I may end up with an expensive pond though, we'll see. :)

I don't fully understand why the waterfalls would not work with the bench jets on. Couldn't the bench jets diverter be set to something like 90% open and the remaining water flow to the next diverter that is fully open to the waterfalls? If not, how would I need to change my diagram? And if I...

Electrical and Plumbing Plans Here is the rough path that plumbing and electrical will take. There are 5 regular returns, 4 returns in the Quasi-Spa bench (in a two over-two pattern) and 2 sheer descents. If I home-run all of these, that is a ton of pipes coming up at the pad. Any way to...

Thank you and thank you for following! I think most topicals, at least the ones that I grow in pots, lose leaves over the course of a year instead of a mass at once. Like you said, that steady drop might be a nuisance. I'll probably just toss them back on the tree base and use them as a bit of...

Site Information: Our house sits on 20-ish wooded acres. Here is a picture of the back yard as taken from the house. This view is looking west and the picture was taken on the winter solstice so that I could see tree shadows. The enclosure/pool will be oriented so that double doors (right side...

After eight months of planning, drawing, and silently lurking in every Under Construction post, I am ready to post my own project and tap into the hive mind that is TFP! Goal: Owner/Build 35x17 concrete pool surrounded by a convertible enclosure. Basically, I want a pool with a part-time...