EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
My wife and I currently have four Akita's. For those that don't know the breed, they are big dogs that love the cold. Since we live in East Texas, the weather is a bit of a challenge for them. They also enjoy going into the water, so we buy a lot of children's pools every year for them. Our first thought was to build a koi pond that they could get in and out of. While there where some things about that idea that we liked, it also had a lot of negatives.
We also want to expand our back porch. At 12 ft wide and 9 ft deep, it's not big enough. We are expanding it to 24 ft wide and 16 ft deep. While we are at it, we've decided to build our a shallow pool for the Akita's. It will be 12 ft wide and stick out into the yard 16 ft. It will have steps along the full 12 foot side along the porch and the deepest part will be 3 ft deep. It will be built out of cinder blocks and then finished off in tile.
I've seen this done a lot overseas and spent the last couple of months researching how others have done this. Surprisingly it's fairly common.
We will be a salt water pool with a sand filter.
Please feel free to offer advice and suggestions. This is a first for me, so I'm sure there are plenty of things that I don't know, and didn't think of.
Last weekend we broke ground. My guess is that I dug about 20 yards out based on the size of the pile of dirt. It's tricky digging because of the house and hot tub gazebo, along with the slop of the yard and our drainage ditch. The digging is done, now to trench for utilities.
We also want to expand our back porch. At 12 ft wide and 9 ft deep, it's not big enough. We are expanding it to 24 ft wide and 16 ft deep. While we are at it, we've decided to build our a shallow pool for the Akita's. It will be 12 ft wide and stick out into the yard 16 ft. It will have steps along the full 12 foot side along the porch and the deepest part will be 3 ft deep. It will be built out of cinder blocks and then finished off in tile.
I've seen this done a lot overseas and spent the last couple of months researching how others have done this. Surprisingly it's fairly common.
We will be a salt water pool with a sand filter.
Please feel free to offer advice and suggestions. This is a first for me, so I'm sure there are plenty of things that I don't know, and didn't think of.
Last weekend we broke ground. My guess is that I dug about 20 yards out based on the size of the pile of dirt. It's tricky digging because of the house and hot tub gazebo, along with the slop of the yard and our drainage ditch. The digging is done, now to trench for utilities.
