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@ajw22 or @jimmythegreek could I just get a thumbs up/thumbs down on this skimmer installation? The instructions included from the skimmer manufacturer (CMP) and the instructions from Royal Pools seemed to differ a little. I went with CMP's instructions and drilled two more mounting holes at the...

Appreciate the feedback. I'll give the sawzall a go and see how I like the cut and fit I'm able to get on a couple practice pieces, and based on that I might move the mitre saw.

Just ordered my plumbing from the local supply house. I'm going to have individual runs for each skimmer, return, and the main drains so each line has it's own valve, and then after the valves I'll combine everything in a manifold on the suction and return side. 180' of 2" in 20' lengths 160'...

Sorry to jump in here, and I claim ignorance on how insurance differs in Australia versus America, but is this type of thing covered under homeowners insurance?

I like that, thanks

@ajw22 can I get your input on placement of my returns?

Pool base is finished! I was sweating it if we'd have enough or not but we had a little over 3 bags remaining when we finished.

We started the pool base today. We had to wait until noon to get started because that's when the weather forecasts said the rain would stop. Well, it drizzled off and on until 3pm which was annoying because it was making pock marks in our freshly troweled pool krete. In hindsight, it sure beat...

I know I should have consulted here before ordering the pool, and I've since learned about the importance of prevailing winds. In my area, they primarily come from the south during the summer, but sometimes shifting out of the west (and obviously in between.) Unfortunately, what's done is done...

Thanks! And yes, the stairs were certainly overdug. My plan is to backfill anything that is going to support paver decking with 3/4 clean stone up to 7" below where the pavers sits, leaving space for 6" of 2A modified and 1" of sand. The only thing I'm thinking of backfilling with excavated soil...

Finally got the concrete truck to show up and got the collar poured. 6 yards was probably a little more than I needed but I'm glad I was a little over rather than a little under. I also severely underestimated how messy pouring concrete was. This was my first time ever working with it, and I...

Good News/Bad News... Good: The building inspector was happy with what he saw and gave me approval to pour concrete yesterday. Bad: The concrete company called a half hour into my delivery window and said 'sorry, we aren't going to be able to get to you today. Next time we can make it out...

@jimmythegreek how do you guys manage dealing with the sandy soil we have in NJ? I see you're up north a bit from where I am so curious if you see that often or not and if so, anything in particular you do to work with it? We hit a clay layer during excavation but our subgrade is prettymuch a...

I've got 57 bags of pool krete that have been staring at me menacingly every time I open the garage door. The looks are a little deceiving, but in relation to that photo the existing grade on the right side of the pool will be even with the tops of out cantilever paver coping once that's added...

I took the day off of work today to keep working on the pool. My wife and I moved some panels around and got it to where all of our diagonals are withing 1/4". I feel like that's the best I'm gonna be able to get it so I'm happy with that. We filled in the washed out areas with stone to...

Welp, I got this text from my wife while I was at work a little bit ago. Nothing we could have done. The water is pumped out now, so I'll have to see how bad the damage is when I get home. Looks like we will probably need to re-excavate the hopper and then fill in some of the washed out areas...

I'm very curious how your liner install went? I am in the process on a Royal Pools install myself and just got done getting the walls up. Some of the diagonal measurements are a little off, and I'm wondering how 'exact' your measurements were before you said 'that's good enough?'

Well that was a lot harder than I thought it'd be. We got all of the panels in level and plumb. Unfortunately, the diagonals from my plan didn't measure up exactly (3" off in one spot :mad:). I think I can see what's wrong and what needs to be adjusted to fix the issue, but I'm going to need to...

They got the excavation done by lunch time today. I'm sure impressed and super pleased with the crew of guys we hired. Everything is right on grade as it should be (within reason.) We also got a delivery of 10 tons of 3/4 clean stone. I plan to use that to fine tune the panels if some of them...

We got another half day (well, 3.5 hours) of excavation in this afternoon. The deep end of the pool is 95% to grade for the shelf, and we left a ramp for him to get out of the shallow end where the steps will end up going. We also marked out the hopper which is where he's going to pick up...

What kind of gravel should I use to level the wall panels @jimmythegreek ? Can I get away with using some leftover Modified 2A?

That does help, thanks! So that metal lath is laying on top of the concrete bond beam? Is it sandwiched between the liner track, or are the sheet metal screws through the liner track and into the lath?

Thanks for the advice, I'm following on everything except for this. Do you happen to have any photos?

@jimmythegreek I'm jumping ahead a few steps but I was wondering if you could school me on coping. Specifically, I have cantilever coping around my pool that I want to finish with bullnose pavers, with regular concrete pavers around that. Here's what I think, tell me where I'm wrong: - I need...

We broke ground today! The excavator I'm using is doing this job on the side, and he was able to get started today after work. We worked together to lay everything out, set our final grade, and then he got started stripping the grass and topsoil away. We only had 1 dump truck available to us...

Sorry yall I might have misled you guys. I'm absolutely taking grade seriously and spending time making sure that everything slopes appropriately. The only "imperfect" thing is that I won't be able to have a nice gradual 1/8" - 1/4" per foot slope all the way around like I would in a perfect...

Just some questions about your plumbing at the equipment pad so I can try to get smarter on this before I try and do my own: After your pump you have a 3 way valve, where one of the splits goes to the filter. Where does the other split go to? On your return manifold, what is with the one valve...

I mocked up a 16' x 30' rectangle to start to really nail down exact location but most importantly the final height I want the pool deck to be. You can see we have a pretty decent slope to contend with so getting all of the slopes and existing patio to line up is going to be tricky (and in...

Much appreciated, thanks!

Apologies, but paging @ajw22 or @Jimrahbe to comment on the above shopping list when time allows