We are finally going to meet with the first of a few PB's tonight. We started with an AGP and knew if we liked owning a pool we would expand our options in the future. During life with the AGP we discovered what we liked and what we didn't like. Based on our opinions here is our dislike list.
- It's above ground (haha that's a given. Now I am not going to bash the AGP but our yard is flat for the most part and the pool level is actually above the upper level of our large deck. This was not exactly an aesthetically pleasing layout)
- We didn't heat the pool and while this could have been added I just didn't want to invest additional dollars into a design we weren't happy with.
- We went with a 24' round pool (for what we do in the pool it's actually too big.
- Not deep enough
- Winter cover - not exactly fun to mess with given the height of the pool out of the ground
- No water feature etc
- 48" steel walled vinyl liner pool 10'x16' rectangle full width steps on one end then slope to a 5' water depth
- built in seating
- 2' or 6" radius corners
- possibly a tanning ledge
- sheer blade waterfall on the long side
- 4' concrete deck on 3 sides
- 8'concrete deck on one side that is actually 31' long to meet up with our 21'x31' wood deck
- The current wood deck will be redone with a few structural mods and new Trex composite decking.
- Undecided on a heat source but may go with a Hayward HP50HA Heat Pump. The pool heater calculators estimate I would only need a 30k btu heater. Seems like gas heaters are too large.
- LED lighting
- Standard chlorine pool. For the amount of effort and chemicals used in the current pool I don't see the advantage to a SWG but am open to suggestions on the topic.