OB Fiberglass Pool in South Florida

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Tym2Fish said:
Finished dry fitting the piping this morning. Will glue later and hopefully call for inspection Tuesday. Now headed to Home Depot to build a pressure manifold and stop by the pool store for chlorine and CYA. It's not even noon and the real feel temp is in the 90's so I'm happy to do inside work for a bit.

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Wow! I'm just catching up with this build thread... I just finished an OB house and will be heading down the OB pool shortly so I'm learning a lot. Thanks for the great documentation. Where are you located? I'm in Palm City with Martin County building department. They were pretty reasonable and in fact helpful for the house.

Chris
 
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PS around here best price by far is bulk liquid chlorine from Leslie's. Acid best price is HD. I get granular CYA online from Amazon also. Used to be available locally at HD also but not so much anymore... use the sock method. Easy peasey.

Chris
 
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setsailsoon said:
Wow! I'm just catching up with this build thread... I just finished an OB house and will be heading down the OB pool shortly so I'm learning a lot. Thanks for the great documentation. Where are you located? I'm in Palm City with Martin County building department. They were pretty reasonable and in fact helpful for the house.

Chris
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I'm in Lake Worth. The folks at the city have been quite helpful. On a few things I've called and asked them how they wanted it done which they seemed to appreciate. We have an odd 50% permeable ground rule here which makes getting through P&Z a bit of a pain but it worked out.

We've got a Leslie's around the corner. I agree on the liquid chlorine.

I'm using city water through a filter for the pool fill. For the backfill I used water from a sprinkler line which is fed from a canal. Big difference in a garden hose and a 1 1/4" discharge hose.

Good luck with your build!
 
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Concrete has been tough to get so it took a few days to things back moving again. We managed to pour half yesterday and are hoping the weather holds up to pour today (and the truck shows up). Electrical conduit is in for the run from the pad to the garage, just waiting on the electricians to come hook everything up. Hoping to get the pump running early next week to help with the chemical situation. I'm now off to try to get the concrete out of the bottom of the pool that the guy shot in there when he wasn't paying attention. 82 degrees here today, could use a break in the weather.

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:party: on some of it being done GUURRRRRRRRRRRRR :mad: on them putting some of it IN the pool REALLY??? sigh................
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For sure. I read here after searching it's better to get on it and get it out so I am. Looks like it's moving to the shallow end fairly easily with the brush. Once the dust settles I'll get in and see what I can do.
 

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T,

Nice progress you are are making. I am restarting my project finally and trying to develop my schedule. Any information you could provide on unusual things you ran into that caused more time would be much appreciated. A couple specific questions. When I built our house last year concrete was just impossible and it actually delayed our start almost a year. Even at that I had to commit months ahead of time and then was put on allocation for 3 weeks when it was supposed to be delivered. But this was a pretty big order over 130 yards. So maybe it won't be so bad this time. How many yards of concrete and what strength strength concrete did you use and who were the suppliers on your bid list? How long was the time from when you committed on concrete to delivery?

Chris
 
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T,

Nice progress you are are making. I am restarting my project finally and trying to develop my schedule. Any information you could provide on unusual things you ran into that caused more time would be much appreciated. A couple specific questions. When I built our house last year concrete was just impossible and it actually delayed our start almost a year. Even at that I had to commit months ahead of time and then was put on allocation for 3 weeks when it was supposed to be delivered. But this was a pretty big order over 130 yards. So maybe it won't be so bad this time. How many yards of concrete and what strength strength concrete did you use and who were the suppliers on your bid list? How long was the time from when you committed on concrete to delivery?

Chris
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Chris,
I got quite lucky with my concrete guys. They had a connection to a truck that would run loads in between jobs and had their own finishers. Downside was we couldn't get an exact date / time and had to be ready at an hour's notice. The upside was we poured two days after we were ready. All the other concrete guys in the area said 6 to 8 weeks. Given my situation I don't think I can help with scheduling other than to say call it in a month before you need it and wait. That said, we used 4000 and poured 14 yards.

For me the big things were excavation (ground kept caving in), setting the pool (it took almost 2 days to get it level enough for me to be happy with it) and backfill (it was a ton of labor and me and my shovel couldn't keep up with the bobcat). I'd guess I'm about 80% complete now so this list may grow.

Best of luck with your build and if the ground there is like the ground here go ahead and accept the fact that often you're going to dig the same hole / trench twice. The sand just falls back in.

Cheers!
 
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Question for folks with electrical knowledge - can I put my light on the same breaker as my outlets around the patio. It's a 12V Jandy so I'm guessing it isn't drawing much but I'm not sure what the inspector will think.
 
Another question about concrete coping over a fiberglass pool: below the coping there is a strip of concrete I assumed would be removed but the concrete guy says if he removes it it will leave a gap as the top of the pool is curved. He said other jobs he's done the finisher ran a line of caulk over it and it looked finished. Said he taped all the way around the pool and put a big line of caulk. Any experience with this out there?

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Tym2Fish said:
Another question about concrete coping over a fiberglass pool: below the coping there is a strip of concrete I assumed would be removed but the concrete guy says if he removes it it will leave a gap as the top of the pool is curved. He said other jobs he's done the finisher ran a line of caulk over it and it looked finished. Said he taped all the way around the pool and put a big line of caulk. Any experience with this out there?

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Just a question, should there be an expansion joint close to the edge of the pool where the coping and deck would typically meet? Or is that not a thing for fiberglass or concrete deck pools?
 
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Tym2Fish said:
Chris,
I got quite lucky with my concrete guys. They had a connection to a truck that would run loads in between jobs and had their own finishers. Downside was we couldn't get an exact date / time and had to be ready at an hour's notice. The upside was we poured two days after we were ready. All the other concrete guys in the area said 6 to 8 weeks. Given my situation I don't think I can help with scheduling other than to say call it in a month before you need it and wait. That said, we used 4000 and poured 14 yards.

For me the big things were excavation (ground kept caving in), setting the pool (it took almost 2 days to get it level enough for me to be happy with it) and backfill (it was a ton of labor and me and my shovel couldn't keep up with the bobcat). I'd guess I'm about 80% complete now so this list may grow.

Best of luck with your build and if the ground there is like the ground here go ahead and accept the fact that often you're going to dig the same hole / trench twice. The sand just falls back in.

Cheers!
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T,
Thanks much for the info... 6-8 weeks. I guess on the plus side it's way better than when I built the house last year. I'll be getting bids out soon but this is definitely on the critical path. Mind if I ask about the supplier? Who did you bid? Cemex and Titan are major suppliers around here but there are several other smaller players I'm getting positive references on. I'll be looking for ~30 yd.

Chris
 

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