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Today we spent the early part of the day duct taping all of the seams in the pool. You do this to create a sealed unit, and to cover any possible sharp points that may damage the liner. This included up the stairs, so we finally also had to put in the rest of the stairs.
The stairs are the liner over step style. This means they are not the fiberglass build out style that are common, but are steel steps, with the liner custom shaped to the steps. I went this way, mostly because I don't really like the idea of cutting a big section out of my liner for the fiberglass steps, and, I think these look a hell of a lot better than the fiberglass too.
After we got the stairs in, and got the duct tape up, we then put the coping on the pool. This was a fairly straight forward process. Basically we started with the corner pieces, then we put in the pieces we didn't have to cut, then finally we filled in the gaps with pieces we had to cut. They supplied self tapping screws for this, they were fairly easy to screw in, and the coping was fairly easy to cut. I used a pneumatic cut-off tool, but a hacksaw would work just fine. The coping is aluminum and cuts fairly easy.
The Pool warehouse offers a few different types of coping. A classic rounded bullnose, a cantilever style for pavers, and a flat bullnose, which is the style I went with. It gives you no overhang, and a very modern look.
It was really easy to install, and it only took a couple hours to do the entire pool.
Up next? I am trying to get the excavator back now to re-grade the yard, and to possibly dig the trench, that is hopefully my next move. If not that, we will be plumbing in the skimmers and output. I was also hoping to to a partial back fill. Due to space constraints I will probably be ordering 6 yards of gravel at a time, so we are planning to get the first load of gravel over the weekend as well.
We will probably also be doing some fencing. The problem is electrical needs to be done, but the ground here sucks, and I really need the excavator to come back and help me out with the trenches. We tried to start digging trenches and it was awful. Clay, rocks and roots are really all I have back there.
So, stay tuned to find out where I go next! I also have some bonding I can start, and we are gonna be putting the niche light in this weekend as well so we can get the bonding going.
Oh, and as a side note, we poured the pad for the pump and filter. It is a 3'x3' pad, about 5" thick. I just used Quickrete. It turned out decent, and I got to use my cement mixer again. And as a note on that. The 3.5 Cu/Ft, 200 dollar mixer at Harbor freight is more like a 1.2 Cu/Ft mixer. It held two bags of Quickrete, but only barely. I am still ok with the purchase though, I didn't have to rent a mixer for that pad, or mix 8 bags of cement by hand.
The stairs are the liner over step style. This means they are not the fiberglass build out style that are common, but are steel steps, with the liner custom shaped to the steps. I went this way, mostly because I don't really like the idea of cutting a big section out of my liner for the fiberglass steps, and, I think these look a hell of a lot better than the fiberglass too.
The Pool warehouse offers a few different types of coping. A classic rounded bullnose, a cantilever style for pavers, and a flat bullnose, which is the style I went with. It gives you no overhang, and a very modern look.
It was really easy to install, and it only took a couple hours to do the entire pool.
Up next? I am trying to get the excavator back now to re-grade the yard, and to possibly dig the trench, that is hopefully my next move. If not that, we will be plumbing in the skimmers and output. I was also hoping to to a partial back fill. Due to space constraints I will probably be ordering 6 yards of gravel at a time, so we are planning to get the first load of gravel over the weekend as well.
We will probably also be doing some fencing. The problem is electrical needs to be done, but the ground here sucks, and I really need the excavator to come back and help me out with the trenches. We tried to start digging trenches and it was awful. Clay, rocks and roots are really all I have back there.
So, stay tuned to find out where I go next! I also have some bonding I can start, and we are gonna be putting the niche light in this weekend as well so we can get the bonding going.
Oh, and as a side note, we poured the pad for the pump and filter. It is a 3'x3' pad, about 5" thick. I just used Quickrete. It turned out decent, and I got to use my cement mixer again. And as a note on that. The 3.5 Cu/Ft, 200 dollar mixer at Harbor freight is more like a 1.2 Cu/Ft mixer. It held two bags of Quickrete, but only barely. I am still ok with the purchase though, I didn't have to rent a mixer for that pad, or mix 8 bags of cement by hand.
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