Wood post near poolside

[Poolnewbie60]

Hi,

I am pretty new with taking care of my pool and this site has helped a lot.

I got the water all good and balanced thank you all for your helpful posts and comments. Now my mother wants me to build some kind of shade structure near the pool. The entire backyard is concrete so I would need to use some anchor bolts into the the concrete so I can put a wood post up. The reason I am making this post is because I am worried about drilling into the concrete so close to the pool, there is a skimmer, a fill hole, a french drain and a return spot all pretty close to where I want the post to go so I am worried about hitting one of those pipes underground. is there a standard depth those are placed at?

think i'm overthinking this lol

I can get some pictures when I get home later today as i'm at work right now.

 

[djdonte]

I just drilled a ton of holes in my concrete for a pool fence, and the concrete/flagstone was 3-4 inches thick. You shouldn't have to drill any deeper than your concrete for those hilti bolts, and your piping will typically be buried deeper than that anyways. The instructions told me to avoid drilling closer than 2 feet from the edge of the pool as well for the same reason, but I was assures that everything would "most likely" be deeper than the 3.5-5 inches I was drilling.

 

[jimmythegreek]

Very hard to get a post anchored down that's gonna hold up. You would need plates on all four sides. You thinking of a shade sail? If so put it farther out and use cord to reach the edge of the sail

 

[YippeeSkippy]

They sell these large area unbrellas that have a massive base and extending arm so that the actual shade fabric is far from the base. Have you considered one of them??

https://www.costco.com/proshade-11'-cantilever-umbrella.product.100382857.html

https://www.costco.com/11'-led-solar-round-cantilever-umbrella.product.100423242.html