Hello Everyone,
I am a new TFP member who is just getting ready to hit the order button after several months of research on DIY kits. We will do some of the work ourselves and contract some out. I have a large suburban backyard and our house ends up being the hangout spot for our kids friends so we want to make sure we have a larger pool so we plan to put in a 20x44 kit that goes from 3' 6" to 9' with about 2,000 feet of concrete decking around it in the back yard with an arbor and fire pit area. I am planning on using 2" pipe on all runs, two skimmers (each on a dedicated 2" line), two main drains (dedicated 2" line), four returns, and installing a drain system under our deep end to pump ground water if we encounter any during our dig (neighbors with pools hit ground water around 8 feet so I am lifting ours up about 2' above natural grade). Our kit won't arrive for a few months due to the supply chain disruptions so I won't be able to post pics for a while but I want to document the whole build. We plan to put in a 20x6 tanning ledge/step combo on the shallow end and two small swim out benches in the corners of the deep end. My question is this. For those of you who have built your own kit or others who wish they could have done something different, what would you go back and change if you were just starting out like I am now? I have been accused of overthinking everything but I want to make sure I think about things I may have missed during my planning stage.
Thank you for any help and for all that I have been able to learn so far from TFP.
I am a new TFP member who is just getting ready to hit the order button after several months of research on DIY kits. We will do some of the work ourselves and contract some out. I have a large suburban backyard and our house ends up being the hangout spot for our kids friends so we want to make sure we have a larger pool so we plan to put in a 20x44 kit that goes from 3' 6" to 9' with about 2,000 feet of concrete decking around it in the back yard with an arbor and fire pit area. I am planning on using 2" pipe on all runs, two skimmers (each on a dedicated 2" line), two main drains (dedicated 2" line), four returns, and installing a drain system under our deep end to pump ground water if we encounter any during our dig (neighbors with pools hit ground water around 8 feet so I am lifting ours up about 2' above natural grade). Our kit won't arrive for a few months due to the supply chain disruptions so I won't be able to post pics for a while but I want to document the whole build. We plan to put in a 20x6 tanning ledge/step combo on the shallow end and two small swim out benches in the corners of the deep end. My question is this. For those of you who have built your own kit or others who wish they could have done something different, what would you go back and change if you were just starting out like I am now? I have been accused of overthinking everything but I want to make sure I think about things I may have missed during my planning stage.
Thank you for any help and for all that I have been able to learn so far from TFP.