Recent content by WildSwimCat

Huh, I thought 6' would be fine for diving, at least race diving. In my summer league growing up, we dove in 5' deep water, off of these terrible 3'+ tall plastic blocks that basically slanted backwards.

I think I've decided we're going to go with the gunite pool; we just seem to get more for the money, especially at the size we're going with. I've had some discussion with the sales representative, and forwarded on our soil survey, and she ran it by her manager who didn't think what we had...

You sir, have piqued my interest. I'm an engineer (although without the stamp...my father has his PE, but not in structures), but sounds like there is some more digging when it comes to the details that I can do. Our home builder ran into some issues when it came to our foundation; half the...

So I've heard back an initial concept from the gunite builder that we had contacted, along with an update from the hybrid/liner PB. The cost for our design, in either gunite or liner (the liner pool I guess is a polymer wall reinforced with concrete beams?) is looking to be roughly the same (I...

Met with the first builder to come back with a quote so far, and had a chat with him the other day. His comment on cost was that it's mainly a function of surface area, so I'm changing my idea a little to widen it in the middle (where we could do other things in it, like play water volleyball...

I did consider the endless pool as well. Wife decided this is sort of a 'go big or go home' item. Fingers crossed, my wife and my careers will remain stable and allow us to stay in our home (we designed it for long term); I don't think we could handle trying to move/build again, after spending...

Chiller is an interesting option...when we were looking at swim spas I was told they didn't really exist for them, but I'll have to ask about that for the 'real' pool builders. Another option I read about (I think on here somewhere?) was evaporative cooling; mounting a spray off of one of your...

My wife and I (and our 18 month old daughter) recently moved into our new-built home in the lowcountry of South Carolina, and are looking to have a pool built. We're going a little different than usual though; we're looking to have a proper 25y (or meters) lap pool, at whatever width is...

New member, joining because my wife and I are looking to build a lap pool. I'm a retired college swimmer, and my wife likes lap swimming as well. Plus, we have the space...10+ acres outside of Charleston SC. I'm in the process of down selecting builders, to build a proper 25yd ( or meters)...