I recently had a poured concrete 36 x 22 pool installed. I don't read about any other poured concrete pools. It seems like all the residential pools are Gunite. Anyone know why?
Poured concrete pool
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Because so many pools are freeform, building traditional forms for a concrete pool is impossible in many, many cases.
Free form shapes are extremely popular these days and are very easy to do with gunite. Builders like to stick with what they know, so they use gunite for everything, even if forms would work on a particular pool.
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Gunite, shotcrete, formed pour concrete, just different ways to do the same thing - you end up with a concrete pool and need to follow the recommended chemical levels for 'crete' pools (as opposed to fiberglass or liner pools). There are subtle differences between the three in terms of concrete strength, but it's basically negligible (read: "marketing hype") 8)
Dave and Jason gave you the reason mot crete pools are 'shot'
The only other advantage in shooting a pool is that you get a monolithic pour - but I've never seen a poured pool leak or break at the cold joint between the floor and the walls 
BTW, you aren't the only one with a poured pool, the first pool company I worked for poured all their pools, supposedly they were strong enough to be the foundation for a 10 story building :-D
Gunite, shotcrete, formed pour concrete, just different ways to do the same thing - you end up with a concrete pool and need to follow the recommended chemical levels for 'crete' pools (as opposed to fiberglass or liner pools). There are subtle differences between the three in terms of concrete strength, but it's basically negligible (read: "marketing hype") 8)
Dave and Jason gave you the reason mot crete pools are 'shot'
The only other advantage in shooting a pool is that you get a monolithic pour - but I've never seen a poured pool leak or break at the cold joint between the floor and the walls BTW, you aren't the only one with a poured pool, the first pool company I worked for poured all their pools, supposedly they were strong enough to be the foundation for a 10 story building :-D
We just started our poured concrete pool.
It would be nice to see pictures of your construction and completed pool?
M.
It would be nice to see pictures of your construction and completed pool?
M.
