Finally under construction in Midlothian, TX

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thanks cramer, beige is a nice choice but my wife has her heart set on pebbletec's midnight blue because we have seens a few pools in person with this color and she fell in love at first sight :)
 
thanks, we hope so.... In reality we know that most people we have over will never notice the details of our build unless they are pool owners themselves. Speaking from experience as a visitor to dozens of pools myself the only detail I can recall from any of them are “Joe has nice stone work, Heath has a really nice spa, man Steve that’s MTV Cribs nice” hahaha
 
It's looking really nice.

I just read your other thread about the house and I am assuming the only thing you will have him do near your pool is help crush a few beer cans and dirty the spa water?
 
hahaha techguy, you are so right :)

@ Mike... it sure did hurt a little. I'm sort of OCD when it comes to having any clutter in my backyard and this pool build has been a challenge for sure. I just keep telling myself it will be normal again soon with the exception of an awesome pool :)
 
CraigMW said:
Or, you could add something like this compact electric pool heater:

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/sto ... ifications

It's quite compact, and if you are just using it to heat the spa, it would probably work great. You just need to ensure that the electrician installs a relatively beefy sub-panel to the pool pad.
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According to the Home Depot website it draws 112.5 amps @ 240 volts. Wow, that's a lot of juice :shock:

It also states in the Category Indoor/Outdoor that it is for Indoor use. Seems kind of strange for a pool/spa heater. :?
 
that certainly looks interesting.

I’ve already paid for my heat pump so I’ll stick with it, but I am curious how that electric unit performs if anyone has ever used one here.
 

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techguy said:
I assume you keep him out of the VW garage also. I have that BIL. I still have his "stuff" in my garage from 4 years ago when it was going to be there for a "month at tops".
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You are a lot nicer than I am, I'd never allow someone to use my mancave for something practical like storage :p

I do love showing off my VWs to guest though so i give guided tours when asked nicely haha
 
I was going to ask what is the measurement across your pool between the narrow point? Ours is 13'6", then swirls out to 17'. I didn't ask the PB that question.. doesn't really matter I guess, but when I measured it, I was surprised a little.

When does your PB recommend you seal your flagstone? I'll ask ours too. I wish I had put flagstone on the tanning ledge - was going to, but chickened out because of the "salt problem" we decided not to. My BIL has it on his in Frisco - 10 years and no problems at all. Must be the luck of the draw.

Have they laid out your concrete forms? It's all looking sooo good!
 
Forms for decking go up tomorrow or Tuesday.

The narrow center waterline to spillway is 12.6'

The builder said after a few weeks when the mortar has fully cured and the stone has had some time to weather to do a light pressure wash and then seal the stone with the water based sealer they will give me. He mention the sealer would also enhance the color of the stone a little to give it an almost wet darker shade of color.
 
VinceL said:
CraigMW said:
Or, you could add something like this compact electric pool heater:

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/sto ... ifications

It's quite compact, and if you are just using it to heat the spa, it would probably work great. You just need to ensure that the electrician installs a relatively beefy sub-panel to the pool pad.
Click to expand...

According to the Home Depot website it draws 112.5 amps @ 240 volts. Wow, that's a lot of juice :shock:

It also states in the Category Indoor/Outdoor that it is for Indoor use. Seems kind of strange for a pool/spa heater. :?
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Yeah, that's for the 15K gallon pool one. They also have a couple for warming spas that don't use as much electricity. That 27kW unit is crazy, but not so bad if your pool pad isn't far from the main panel. They recommend three 50A 2P breakers with 8 gauge wires.

Of course, we could never afford to use something like that in California. The rates are tiered and you find yourself getting into those higher tiers quickly with a pool and A/C.
 
A little progress made yesterday they may be pouring the deck this week and plastering as early as Monday.

Builder said 6 weeks total weather pending and so far it looks like they will complete it in 6 weeks :)

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I opted for as much decking as possible without over powering the pool and yard, not to mention our bulldog still needs some grass to do her business :)
 
WOWWWWW!!! That is going to be SOO awesome!!!!! We are still in the watering the gunite stage. Since our existing slab slopes towards the yard (slightly) our PB is going to slightly slope the decking away from the pool, so the pool doesn't get all the runoff from the patio. I know you probably know that already... but I thought I'd mention it. He mentioned putting in a drip drain, or something.. I need to ask I guess.

It's beginning to look like a pool! I LOVE the stonework. Our backyard looks a bomb went off.. We are on 2 acres, and don't you know... the only "good" grass was right where the pool went. <..sigh..> Seeing yours gives me hope!
 
thank you :)

yea, our builder is grading the deck so that the water drains away from the pool as well... the area between our patio and the pool with be graded to channel water in the center. It's hard to see but there are about 6 3" drains and my gutter downspout that all tie into a 6" drain pipe under the deck.

This will all run to an area on the edge of my backyard where the rain natrually flows to the street already.
 
I was going to say are you sure you want solid down spouts into the drainage below it. If you get something on your roof, it will drain down the tube and could plug up your downstream tubes. If you added a grate and some air at the drain, you would filter out any debris from the gutters. Just an idea. I think I have even seen them with the grate on an angle

Here's a plastic one but they may have nicer ones or you can use a larger basin with a flat grate.

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but... you don't have too many trees today that I can see.
 
good point techguy...

The down spout is dry fitted and not glued in so i can remove it all if needed, but i plan to put some sort of grill in my rain gutter to prevent "stuff" from falling in and rolling down into the dain pipe.
 
I was thinking you could have a nice larger grate installed so it will catch surface run-off as well as the grate flow. I know the surrounding area is not great looking in this photo but this is what I meant with a larger basin and grate.

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