Swimming Pool Choices & More

You need to start looking around online at other pools. Collect a list of pictures you like so you can talk to your installer and tell them what you want to do. Remember that you don’t have to do it all at once, your installer should be able to tell you what can wait until later. We plan to install a pool house, outside shower, kitchen, waterslide & more next year. Here are some of the things you need to decide.

– Do you want a fiberglass, vinyl or concrete pool?
– What type of pool patio do you want? Brushed concrete, Stamped concrete, Pavers, Stone, Etc
– Do you want a diving board, slide, seats in the deep end, salt water, colored lights, heater
– What kind of landscaping do you want?
– Do you want pool lights? How many?
– Patio Furniture: Always Use Fabric Made by Sunbrella

Current Pool Prices for North Carolina (Updated After Reading a Comment)
Concrete Pools = Highest Prices
Fiberglass Pools = In the Middle
Vinyl Pools = Lowest Price

Make sure you check EVERYTHING a contractor offers in his pool package. Do NOT rush this choice!

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Rain, Rain & More Rain!

It’s been raining like crazy all week and you can really see where the water sits on my property. The bad news is all the water currently goes right around my swimming pool pumps and electrical units. I hope when we do the patio they can get all this graded so the water doesn’t stand anymore. I posted this section and the pictures so we can compare before and after images once the pool is finished.

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Stone Boulders

My wife and I decided to install stone boulders on the back of the swimming pool. We looked at about 1000 pool pictures and I really think the stone with nice landscaping behind it will really set the pool off. We plan to have the stones built up about 3 – 4 feet with three waterfalls coming off the stone into the pool. We will place the two jet laminars (streams of water with light) behind the stones and have them coming over the waterfall and into the pool. Here is a quick look at one of the images we liked for the boulder waterfall. The rear will be built up with dirt so we can place plants, etc behind the boulders.

So once we decided on exactly what we wanted (this may change more than 100 times during the pool install process) we talked to lots of people to find the right company to handle the job, more on that after this post. The stones came in on the huge 18 wheeler this week with 38 tons (yes that’s crazy) of rock. One guy unloaded it all and put it into the backyard in about 30 minutes.

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