Re: New IG Pool Construction - Austin, TX Area
Will this be a salt water pool when finished?
Will this be a salt water pool when finished?
New IG Pool Construction - Austin, TX Area - Pics inside
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Re: New IG Pool Construction - Austin, TX Area
Yeah fancy pool stuff gets exponentially expensive. It's like anything related to a wedding or corvette.
Yeah fancy pool stuff gets exponentially expensive. It's like anything related to a wedding or corvette.
Re: New IG Pool Construction - Austin, TX Area
It will be chlorine. I'm getting a tank/pump system so it can automatically add bleach every day.
Yeah I am pretty amazed to see what they can do with these thick slabs of rock. They will also cut in a smooth transition from the regular coping to where it widens out to form the bar top. Should be interesting.
- Jun 12, 2011
- 3,767
- Pool Size
- 19500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pureline Crystal Pure 60,000
There are a lot of pools in Texas, but not a lot of salt pools. Texas pool builders love using lots of stone. Texas limestone is so cheap and looks great, however it is quite soft and really prone to salt damage. It seems like all the pool builders in Texas steer their clients way from salt pools, because they hate to see all that beautiful stone beginning to erode away in a few years. Building a trouble free salt pool means avoiding the use of natural stone, something seldom done in Texas.
Our pool builder didn't have any issues with us choosing salt when we were thinking about it. All he said was that we would have to chose different types of coping, decorative stone etc. I don't think one way or the other is right or wrong, and stone wasn't the only reason why we didn't go with an SWG.
We have a salt pool in Texas. Our PB has a 75k gallon monstrosity covered in rock and salt. It's how you take care of it. We choose a travertine coping in lieu of flagstone.
Re: New IG Pool Construction - Austin, TX Area
Things have gone a little slow lately with all the rain, but some progress has been made. The coping, decorative stone and waterline tile is almost finished. We are missing one piece of leuder as you can see on the right of the picture. They ran out of pieces large enough for the spillway from the spa.
Closeup of stone and tiles
Bar with tiles and bar-top installed. I really like how they were able to do a transition from the standard width of the leuders to the wider pieces on the bar!
Things have gone a little slow lately with all the rain, but some progress has been made. The coping, decorative stone and waterline tile is almost finished. We are missing one piece of leuder as you can see on the right of the picture. They ran out of pieces large enough for the spillway from the spa.
Closeup of stone and tiles
Bar with tiles and bar-top installed. I really like how they were able to do a transition from the standard width of the leuders to the wider pieces on the bar!
Looking good so far. You will love it when it is done. Alot less to mow now as well.
"Bar with tiles and bar-top installed. I really like how they were able to do a transition from the standard width of the leuders to the wider pieces on the bar!"
They did an awesome job on it all but I do have to say that transition is wonderful!
I love the rock and tile. It is so pretty!
Kim
They did an awesome job on it all but I do have to say that transition is wonderful!
I love the rock and tile. It is so pretty!
Kim
- Jul 16, 2012
- 7,211
- Pool Size
- 27000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
That bar will make a nice jumping platform! Gorgeous with the tile/coping/stonework.
Time for another update!
Building forms for the different levels of the sundeck.
Another view
Steps from mid-level to bottom level
Mid and bottom level sand-bagged and filled in. Ready for steel.
Decks from top (on the right) to the bottom before steel is going in.
Re-bar time!
Fresh concrete around the spa
Looks like they are wrestling an anaconda when moving the concrete filled hose
After concrete forms are removed
Pool does not look very inviting.. hopefully that will change in 2-3 weeks.
Building forms for the different levels of the sundeck.
Another view
Steps from mid-level to bottom level
Mid and bottom level sand-bagged and filled in. Ready for steel.
Decks from top (on the right) to the bottom before steel is going in.
Re-bar time!
Fresh concrete around the spa
Looks like they are wrestling an anaconda when moving the concrete filled hose
After concrete forms are removed
Pool does not look very inviting.. hopefully that will change in 2-3 weeks.
Wow.. 5ish weeks of rain on and off. Every time we had something scheduled it would rain. Over and over and over.. oh well. It's not swim season yet. Lately we have had some better weather so there has been some progress.
Work started on a planter around the top part of the sundeck.
Stone that is used is the same as the stone between pool & spa.
I really like the look of it. Rock guys did a great job.
Then came the color of the sun deck.. We picked a tan color to keep it neutral. Someone skipped a step somewhere when mixing the paint. It turned out YELLOW! I swear with the right sunset it looked golden. When the builder came out to look at the color, he laughed and asked if I didn't want to keep the golden patio? They had no qualms about having the sub contractor re-doing it with a better color option later on. Just had to find another day with no rain..
There is finally some equipment on the equipment pad! Hard to see, but the orange markings says "SAVE" to save space for a tank/stenner pump for dispensing bleach.
I now also have an unused robotic pool cleaner sitting in my office
Finally came the sun!!! Plastering being done on a cloudy day. Luckily there was no rain near us on the radar.
Spa plaster
It looked like they were covering the pool in baby blue cake frosting.
It looked a little better later in the day.
Starting to acid wash the day after plaster was applied. Makes the color look a lot better.
Also added a quick time lapse of the acid wash. Pardon the shaky cam.. was holding my phone for a while and got my butter finger in the way at some point.
Work started on a planter around the top part of the sundeck.
Stone that is used is the same as the stone between pool & spa.
I really like the look of it. Rock guys did a great job.
Then came the color of the sun deck.. We picked a tan color to keep it neutral. Someone skipped a step somewhere when mixing the paint. It turned out YELLOW! I swear with the right sunset it looked golden. When the builder came out to look at the color, he laughed and asked if I didn't want to keep the golden patio? They had no qualms about having the sub contractor re-doing it with a better color option later on. Just had to find another day with no rain..
There is finally some equipment on the equipment pad! Hard to see, but the orange markings says "SAVE" to save space for a tank/stenner pump for dispensing bleach.
I now also have an unused robotic pool cleaner sitting in my office
Finally came the sun!!! Plastering being done on a cloudy day. Luckily there was no rain near us on the radar.
Spa plaster
It looked like they were covering the pool in baby blue cake frosting.
It looked a little better later in the day.
Starting to acid wash the day after plaster was applied. Makes the color look a lot better.
Also added a quick time lapse of the acid wash. Pardon the shaky cam.. was holding my phone for a while and got my butter finger in the way at some point.
