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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    BTW, we are on municipal sewer and water service. Updates: We did in fact switch to a new PB, and placed a deposit with them. Still waiting on the promised refund of our deposit from the fired PB. Our new construction timeframe is late July. We had "them" come out and mark the utilities...
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    Choosing a PB near Indianapolis

    Something to think about... we are in southern Indiana and doing a vinyl pool. You can totally customize steps, benches and tanning ledges with a vinyl pool. Basically anything you can think up (within reason) can be done with a vinyl liner pool by an experienced PB.
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    Based on the calculator here: Pool Heater Sizing Calculator | Jandy Pro Series it appears to be more than adequate. Of course, my interpretation of the results and required data could be way off...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    Let's hope he's not as jerk'ish about it or I may be firing another PB... :D Even with the pool we will still have a sizable grassy area for the kids to play (especially by in-the-city standards). That is one reason we are not that interested in the pool house construction right away. We...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    That is almost exactly what the PB said...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    While we like the mirrored aesthetic of the inspiration photo, you are correct that it significantly reduces the swimmable area. By elongating the pool from 40' to 44' and putting the stair & shelf(shelves) along the shallow end instead of the side, we free that space up for fun (we have six...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    For your viewing pleasure. This is a bid from another vendor -- identifying features redacted to protect the innocent... I'd be curious what your opinions are on both the equipment, contract and the drawings of the pool.
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    Why so much?

    Supply/demand curve, customer demographics, seasonality, location, etc... your/my pool project would likely be wildly variable due to these issues... same reason Apple charges >$900 for an iPhone with $230 worth of individual components: because they can...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    Update: I received the contract from the builder today. Nowhere in the contract did they list any of the specific equipment they would be using just very generic descriptions. The contract also did not include any drawings, plumbing descriptions, etc. When I called him and asked for more...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    I like the ideas Joanniern, thanks!
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    Good advice! No, there are five PB in our market: One specializing in fiberglass pools and the remaining four all do vinyl -- one of those does polymer walled the other three steel walled. After interviewing and reference checking we went with one of the steel walled contractors. Though the...
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    I have seen numerable examples of tanning shelves in vinyl pools so I know they are an option. What I have not seen are umbrella sleeves nor bubblers in them. I can easily envision potential issues with the installation of both. I too have wondered about putting chairs in the pool on the vinyl.
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    Contractor Messed Up

    Wow, this sounds horrible! :roll: I hope you get a speedy and livable solution. I'm not an attorney, but it seems you have a clear contract issue that could potentially require them to redo the pool. I'd suggest you get your attorney immediately involved. Good luck!
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    Hoosier Family's Pool Adventure: Planning and Building Thread

    Thank you! :D Not as of now. The PB never mentioned even the option. I am generally over-the-top with my reliance on technology so I am very open to this concept. Thanks! I'll discuss it with the PB. What features does the automation get you? Or said another way, what is the benefit to...