Recent content by hooraysimpsons

Thank you for your help so far. Regarding the anchors, I was following those instructions which made me look into using a 4 inch thick pad for easy drainage underneath. Then I read some other comments and was planning a 2x2 or 2x3 ft for the handrail and then 2x5 for ladder (include both anchors...

New questions: How big of a concrete pad to place for a handrail and ladder being installed in a paver deck? I called SR Smith and they had no guidance. I have purchased 6 inch deep anchors to allow for a concrete pad under the pavers but I don't know how big (wide) or deep would be recommended...

Thank you. I'll chip out the gunite dig outs more to allow for a coupling to be installed.

I appear to have another new problem. Finally got around to pressure testing the conduits for the lights after I learned they hold water. Seems they all have a small leak somewhere, slow but present. It seems I don't have many options: 1. Dig it all up and put in new conduit 2. Only dig up near...

Thank you for responding. Maybe this 'part' isn't as neccessary as I thought it was. Example part: SkimJim™ 8" x 24" Aluminum Skimmer Support Plate My understanding is it would be helpful to support the coping across the skimmer mouth. I am getting the 12x24 coping from NPT...

Hopefully a quick question to help finish ordering all my 'parts'. Planning to use the fantastic royal marble coping from NPT. For spanning the skimmer mouth it seems like best practice would be to still use an aluminum skimmer plate. Then that would ideally be attached to my bonding. Is they a...

Thank you. That thread was helpful in general. I didn't see anyone with travertine/marble coping then concrete pavers. We like the color combination we could create doing that but I'm worried the texture differences in material would look weird. Maybe it wouldn't be so different than those with...

We finally got some paver base around the pipes and backfilled trenches some before a heavy rain. Still need to do the rough grading better. We've gotten one pool builder quote finally to take over the job completely but we are still moving forward with individual pieces in the mean time. Still...

Hello all, This is my original post I think my pool builder disappeared. Estimating my loss I’ve had a couple PBs come by to give estimates on taking over the job. They seemed interested but no one has actually submitted an estimate so it looks like I’ll be doing an owner build the rest of the...