Inground Pool many Pics

[Timber]

Well My wife took most of the pictures while I was at work, I came home 1/2 day today because the electrician is suppose to be hear to lay the electrical and I have some things to go over with him.

Eddy the pool is 16 X 32 and is 5 feet deep. I didn't want a diving pool. I wanted a game pool plus the water is warmer longer. I never did the volume math LOL. The pool will be all back filled and it will sit that way all winter. There is going to be a concrete apron around it. 12 feet on the barn side and 12 on the stair end. It will be 3 feet on the house side and the other end is undecided. There is going to be a 16 X 50 foot deck off the house the will meet the edge of the pool. there is still much to do.

Thanks Nat, makes me feel better. it has been 1 problem after another with this thing. this is the 4th week since the hole was dug. My contractor is getting on my nerves. I do feel he is doing a good job but he never shows up and that pisses the wife off. It is starting to get cold hear and I don't really want frozen mountains of dirt all winter

 

[BlacknTan]

Very nice, Timber!

But where's that B-7800?

 

[Nat]

Timber, one suggestion is to put more than 3 ' of concrete anywhere. The pool overdig is at least 3' and seems to be more at a lot of places, so the concrete will be sitting on backfill. 3' of concrete isn't very strong and will drift down on the outside, where-as 5 or6' wil crack or break, but that won't pull on the wall.
When I put one in I always took the dirt I dug out and built up the perimeter in lifts of 4" and compacted it with the bobcat and a bucket full of dirt. I have heard people say that wouldn't compact it but they are wrong. An 863 weighs 7500 lbs and a bucketfull of dirt was 2000 more, so almost all of the 9500 lbs was on the 2 front wheels. I would compact it as I went and would compact back into the edge of the pool and would dig it back out so that I had a square wall 3' out from the pool. Then if you poured over the compacted edge one side of the concrete was sitting on the wall and the other was on very compacted dirt.
The "soft concrete" is pool base. It is vermiculite mixed with portland cament. It is weaker than concrete so that it won't be abrasive, and all it does is give a smooth surface for the liner to sit on. It will never get hard or crack like concrete, but it also doesn't have any shear strength so if you jump into the pool before it is full of water it can leave prints. I don't know if anyone told you but it never gets warm enough in Mass to get in the water anyway LOL. I can't imagine getting into water less than 80 degrees and I bet it never gets that warm that far north does it? My pool gets up to 93-94 degrees in august, we have to put water in it to cool it off, down to a comfortable 88-90.
Good luck with it and at least you will know where your kids are. I could always count on coming home from work in the summer to find 8-10 kids in the pool even when they were teenagers. I wasn't worried about drugs or aids or the police when I knew where they were anyway. later, Nat

 

[Superduper]

Eddy the pool is 16 X 32 and is 5 feet deep. ..... I never did the volume math LOL.

The pool capacity is approximately 19,150 gallons, if my rusty math is intact...

 

[Nat]

Super, it is more like 13,000 gal. A 16 x 32 with a diving well is close to 16,000 gal and the shallower depth subtracts from that also the 4' radius corners subtract a little more. It is important to know how much water your pool holds to let you know how much chemicals go into it. I'm not argueing with you and not knocking your math, but most people have a big misconception about how much water a pool holds. As a general rule a 16 x 32 = 16,000 -18x36 =19,000- 20x40 =24,000. Then if less depth = less gal.
LxWx average depthx 5.9=total gal. Also average depth means average, not 3' shallow-6' deep doesn't mean 4.5 average. All of the pool is 3' but only a small area is 6' os the average is more like 3'8". This isn't a pool measuring class, just an old pool man trying to clear up some conflicting info. Later, Nat

 

[Timber]

Thank you Nat , I never considered that the apron around the pool not bridging to undisturbed soil would pull on the pool walls. Makes perfect sense to me. The deck coming off the house is going to come to the edge of the pool so that is why we thought 3 feet because it will be under the deck anyway. The electrician was out yesterday and put down all the PVC in the trench. Today he will pull all the wire and the inspector will be out today as well. He is pulling 2 lines, 1 will be dedicated to the pool pump and the other will be power to the pool house. The timer will be at the panel where the old one is.

The filter is a cartridge filter. I don't know a lot about it but the town required it because of the wetlands. They don't want any backwash getting into the ground water. It seems like a much easer system to use. My other filter was sand and it worked fine with the other pool. I don't know if they will start back filling today but the Bobcat has been hear since Friday

This pool sits in the sun from sunrise till it sets. There are no trees at all it the suns path, There was 1 but I took it down this spring past. I know my other pool was always warm. With a solar blanket I am sure I can keep the temp in the 80s all summer. I may put a solar heater on it later for an extended season. I am all ready looking into a solar array for the house. The roof surface is 85 feet in length an in total sun.

 

[MrJimi]

And you can put some wood around the edges for this winter and use it for ice skating. Just make sure you dont let any snow on the ice.
Jim

 

[Timber]

Hear is the Skidstear with a nice new bucket on it. I wouldn't mind that on my tractor. In fact I wouldn't mind having that machine

 

[Volfandt]

The best days in a pool owners life is the day he gets it and the day he gets rid of it
We enjoyed our small 4' for many yrs, our daughter and some friends learned to swim in it, but I must admit that the smile on my face when I was filling the hole back in wasn't just because of the seat time....

Enjoy
Volfandt

 

[Bird]

The best days in a pool owners life is the day he gets it and the day he gets rid of it
We enjoyed our small 4' for many yrs, our daughter and some friends learned to swim in it, but I must admit that the smile on my face when I was filling the hole back in wasn't just because of the seat time....

Enjoy
Volfandt

Amen. We had this same type of pool, but only 12' x 24' and 3' to 6' deep with a slide but no diving board and a sand filter that backwashed directly into the city sewer. The contractor said they'd build it in 4 days (kinda like Nat said) and they did . . . of course that 4 days work was spread over more than a month's time. Never again!