ATL Pool Build

atljoe84

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Feb 7, 2020
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Hi All - Have loved reading this forum over the summer to get to learn pools. After a slow back and forth through the summer to get to a design, we have reached a final design plan. We are working with a somewhat difficult yard and wanted to preserve yard space for the small kids so going with a reverse beam before a sharp drop off. Would love any comments on quote or design. Thank you all and will keep this thread updated throughout the build! Phase II as pool is completing is to renovate existing screen porch and add outdoor kitchen and putting green, hopefully all is complete by Spring!

On the pool design, we will likely add small shelves on the hot tub side stairs to make end of stairs even with the end of hot tub. On the other side, we don't plan to have any stairs, just a cliff off the tanning ledge to try to preserve some of the length. Note that the 3d rendering has to hot tub and ledge on same side, waiting on updated renderings, but the 2d is the layout. The dropoff on the length of the pool is about 30-40 feet down at a 45 degree angle.
 

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Joe, that's gonna be a gorgeous yard and pool!

My only concern is the pavers/grass on the far left side- how will that be mowed without sending clippings into the pool? Its a tight space. Just something to be aware of.

Welcome to TFP! Glad to have you join us.

Maddie
 
Love the pavers in the lawn which makes that nice chessboard pattern. SO nice. And the pool will be wonderful! I'm not an expert but I do know kids. If you have kids they are going to slip thru that fence gap and climb down that steep pool drop. Some more thoughts into that metal fence there. Just my two cents!
 
Thanks for comments! We actually switched the checkerboard on the ends to be a solid bluestone patio for the grass reason. Still havent decided on the side, kind of like the grass right up to the pool look. On the cliff, we are going to need to install a 6 foot fence for code so that fence will go just far enough away from pool where it isn't seen from far away. With the angle, it will likely be 6 - 8 feet past the pool. Agree on the corners though, will likely need some tall bushes on the corners to make sure that you can't scoot around the edge of railing and the only way to fall on hill would be to climb out of pool onto coping.
 
Contract/permitting took much longer than expected, but we finally made it to dig day! And now plumbing going in. Made a couple small changes to the pool:
- added 3 feet to length, making it 45x16
- put hot tub in corner and added another ledge on bottom of pool
- pool had to get shifted away from slope, so adding a 12-15 foot wide area for outdoor kitchen/play area

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Noticed something today that I need some help with. If you look at the last picture in the previous post, you can see that the hot tub outer wall is 12”, but the rest of the pool exposed wall is 8”. Not sure, why they did this? I see two issues, first, how is the coping going to be a straight line with 4” different width and second, how is the autocover track going to navigate that turn?

Project manager didn’t have a good answer today. My only thought for a fix is to add 4 more inches to the wall for the length of the pool.
 
Spoke with project manager today - they built it like that to give a 12" coping for the side of the spa to sit on and then did their normal exposed wall at 8". They said not an issue for autocover as it will sit under coping far enough. Their only proposal to keep the length consistent is to cut down the spa wall to 8", I have some concern about running into rebar which they said could be grinded down.

Would love some thoughts here - adding picture again here - the left coping is where I'm talking about - it would be 12" wide at the spa and then 8" for the rest of the run.

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