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I'm still waiting to get my rock wall fixed, so that's delaying finishing my landscaping, but here's a pic of the waterfall walls. ended up doing some pretty janky things to get these to work (mostly because I was too cheap to spend $500+ on each 3' weir.

I love this write up. I'll attempt to do this for my build as well.

Welp, Murphy's law reared its ugly head last night. I was feeling good about progress and woke up to see a 20' section of my rock retaining wall collapsed. Completely Mostly my fault for not getting the brick retaining wall backfilled pronto. Turns out, my drip system valve was stuck open too...

Also, the day I poured concrete a picture came up in google photos from exactly 1 year ago. Crazy transformation!

Update time. I got a lot done since I posted a month ago. Filled pool. Installed cover. Ran gas lines to pad and outdoor kitchen. Connected equipment pad. Leveled and graded yard. Backfilled raised pool deck. All pool bonding completed. Had 1,400 ft2 concrete poured. (this was a nightmare, but...

Not going to lie. it's been so fun and satisfying. Feels like it has been a long process. No kids have jumped in yet today with this non-coastal utah hurricane happening ;) Good luck! Delays suck so much. It's frustrating for sure.

I'm loving having a pool already. Can't wait to finish the yard and everything else around it, but it's so fun for the kids and their friends, too. I'm almost sad to fill it up all the way because they were loving the slip-n-slide to the deep end.

Well, I tell people I'm actually building 2 pools, because I've almost done everything twice in this process. I had to re-dig. re-pool-kreted a chunk of my pool floor. my walls fell down. the foam on the walls blew off. and now my liner had about 10 major wrinkle show up after I left the water...

Big day yesterday. I am sore all over. I was using finger muscles I didn't know I had. We wrapped the walls/stairs in foam. Meticulously cleaned out, swept, vacuumed and did it all again. Put all gaskets in place. Fished pull lines for 4 lights. Put the liner in. vacuumed the wall. worked on...

oh it's amateur hour over here for sure. I do my best to read everything possible, ask questions when I'm stumped, but there really is no substitute for experience. I have my ongoing list of things I would do differently if there is ever a next time.

Not an electrician. I don't even play one on TV. But mine (polymer walls, aluminum coping, auto-cover and vinyl-over steel stairs) passed inspection with just tying the four corners. My under-coping auto-cover track guarantees continuity as well. Good luck!

Your pavers, coping and plaster are beautiful. Definitely making me reconsider my choice to go with a concrete pool deck (that and the cement powder shortage in Utah that's pushing my deck out at least another month).

I ordered from royal pools. The pool is a 20x50'. When I poured the footer around the walls I also poured plenty in the stairs, too. Why pool-krete in them? the honest to goodness answer is pure ignorance ;) The pool crete is just the top 2 inches on top of 3/4" clean gravel.