I cannot count the number of times I have cut myself on cable sheath lol. You get in a hurry or get lazy and it bites you.
Building a pool with many questions
- Thread starter redhead33
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So today the concrete deck was poured and prior to doing that they had to put forms because I’m having a cantilever concrete deck and then they also put the Super drain, which is plastic. After that is finished, they will do a textured coding and then acrylic finish of some kind. My concern is with this not very professional or nice looking slotted drain. I’ve had a number of pools and they all have the same drain, but I never saw it being built until now. It’s so cheap looking and I am disturbed by how they did it where some of the pieces do not meet properly and they are not flat and they are not straight. Is there some step in the process that will rectify this and am I being overly critical. The one piece that was put together that’s short is right outside the master bedroom and it sticks up and it’s not straight and it wasn’t cut properly. I’m not happy.
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Your right it looks terrible , sometime ago i had my deck drain replaced with this ( see photo) called A Water hog...Roughly $170.00 each 10 foot section at home depot , it moves more water ,it screws down for easy removal for clean out, and looks PROFESSIONAL. Please keep in mind they would have to recut the concrete to accommodate the water hog drain. Good luck keep us posted.
That looks very nice. I am right in the beginning of all this so it’s pretty disappointing that they have total freedom to do it properly and yet they didn’t. Supposedly they will come tomorrow and take care of it, but didn’t say what that meant. And to me unless it’s gonna be removed and replaced no way to take care of the poor cutting job. I will keep you posted. Thank you for responding and your picture. it looks great the one you have now.
Yeah that looks bad and not professional at all 
I would ask them what they are going to do to fix it AND watch while they do it. If you don't like what they are doing make them stop and call the PB and let him know.
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I have the same drain system on my pool. Don't worry - it'll fill up with dirt in no time and water will just drain along the top!
I hope it goes down into the pipe underneath. It’s a solid drain called a super drain by Steigmeier. I saw something pretty cool online when I was researching all of this stuff and it’s called the Deco drain janitor or something like that. And the guy who invented it has a little video how to use it you cut a piece of the existing drain slots out very precisely and then you install his little drain janitor which looks just like the original slots. Only you can pop it in and out to stick a hose down in there and clean it out. Pretty clever.I have the same drain system on my pool. Don't worry - it'll fill up with dirt in no time and water will just drain along the top!
- Jul 16, 2012
- 7,282
- Pool Size
- 27000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Out pool deck was poured and theoretically sloped to drain into several round 4” drains. The sloping wasn’t very good and there was pooling of water when wet. Since we had 4” pipe below already I a line, they grinded out a V-shaped trench with a lip to it to receive heavy duty 4” plastic drain sections like 2’ long. The are supposed to screw into the base action that is in place before a pour. Ours just set in the hand-grinded trench. It spent look ideal as the ends of the drains aren’t always perfectly flat but it is super effective and each piece just lifts out so I can spray the accumulated debris to the nearest drain. A perfectionist would not approve of ours but I prefer effectiveness over beauty when it’s hard to have both, like ours was, after the fact. I’ve never understood putting such a dinky looking drain around a pool. In aesthetic alone it’s a mismatch, but also in practicality.
I think it looks good. We are already experiencing a huge amount of water above the drain during really heavy downpours, but that’s because we don’t have a gutter, but we will have a gutter on the cage where it attaches to the house so that should take a lot of the burden off of that drain. I hope.Out pool deck was poured and theoretically sloped to drain into several round 4” drains. The sloping wasn’t very good and there was pooling of water when wet. Since we had 4” pipe below already I a line, they grinded out a V-shaped trench with a lip to it to receive heavy duty 4” plastic drain sections like 2’ long. The are supposed to screw into the base action that is in place before a pour. Ours just set in the hand-grinded trench. It spent look ideal as the ends of the drains aren’t always perfectly flat but it is super effective and each piece just lifts out so I can spray the accumulated debris to the nearest drain. A perfectionist would not approve of ours but I prefer effectiveness over beauty when it’s hard to have both, like ours was, after the fact. I’ve never understood putting such a dinky looking drain around a pool. In aesthetic alone it’s a mismatch, but also in practicality.