We are building a 12x31 pool with a 5x7 spa going length wise on one side, so that there would be 6' of water on one side, 1' spa wall, and 5' of spa water on the other side (steps will be after the spa on long side of pool). The seating will be along 2 outside walls and the wall closest to the deep end, but not along the longer wall inside the pool going lengthwise. l I asked my builder why there was less steel on that wall and he said he was making it 6" instead of a 1' to give us more room in the shallow end. Although functionally this makes sense, would this look weird from an aesthetic perspective, with one wall a different thickness from the other wall? I am a little concerned as I haven't seen a pool done like this and am trying to imagine it.
Corner integrated spa with walls of different thickness?
- Thread starter saralines
- Start date
- Jul 3, 2013
- 9,027
- Pool Size
- 15000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool SJ-40
Do you have any plans or something that we could see.. Not getting good visual going in my head 
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,658
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I think how it will look depends on your coping stone and spa spillover design, The innser two spa walls will have narrower coping stones.
If you also make the inner wall stones proportionally shorter they will likely fool the eye and things should look symmetrical.
If you put narrower stones on the inner wall the same length as the outer stones then it will draw the eye to the difference in thickness.
If you also make the inner wall stones proportionally shorter they will likely fool the eye and things should look symmetrical.
If you put narrower stones on the inner wall the same length as the outer stones then it will draw the eye to the difference in thickness.
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What I am saying is one of the inner walls is a different thickness from the other inner wall. Isn't that weird? The outer coping is 14", and one inner wall is 12" and the other is 6". Won't the 6" look strange?
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,658
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I thought both inner walls were the same thickness. Yeah, I would want both inner walls to be the same.
Thank you - aesthetically it seems better, right? But his argument was giving me an extra 6" of shallow end for play. Will I miss 6"?
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,658
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I doubt you would know the difference of +/- 6" in your pool. None of the pool build tolerances are that tight from the dig to the gunite to the plaster thickness.