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Concrete is generally the cheapest unless you upgrade to a colored finish or spray deck. Pavers will be a bit more but I don't really get into the weeds on exact pricing. Travertine deck is probably going to be the priciest option

Took the kayak out for an overnight on the Brazos River below Possum Kingdom dam. Caught my personal best fish ever. A 40" flathead catfish. Pound for pound this beast fought harder than anything besides a shark that I've ever caught. So much fun. Also caught a big ass drum on the ultralight...

You just keep replacing or fixing it. I don't do liner pools but a friend had one that we were in every weekend of every summer when we were in our 20's and he had to mess with that liner every couple years it seemed like. He was a pool guy so he took good care of it.

Everyone has different tastes. This guy was building a $2 million dollar home while I was building the pool. Normally I finish a pool like that in 90 days but this one took 7 months while we waited on the house. Mediterranean exterior but ultra modern interior. He spent $15k on barista equipment...

Lol, ya. No one builds 13' deep pools unless it's for something specialized like SCUBA training.

Just plastered this one last week. Travertine coping, gas fire pit, deck is three levels- one level around the spa, one around the pool, and a third one down and behind the pool. $135k.

$75k ish for a normal 12-15k gallon pool with no bells or whistles.

Now is the time to buy if you have cash. Things are slowed down a lot, sale guys are getting desperate.

Ya if you have a big monstrosity like that you have to keep it dialed in. Once it gets away from you, good fucking luck. Don't ever buy anything with a vinyl liner.

Does it even have a shallow end? Most shallow ends are 3'6" and going from 3.5' to 13' deep is going to be super steep with those dimensions. Anyway, I build em, I don't fill em in. If you can get a dump truck back there then post "Fill dirt wanted" signs around, call some excavation companies...

Just residential.

Our scale is large enough that we have two warehouses full of equipment. We buy straight from the manufacturer by the truckload. Zero lead time on our pools but yes, I hear horror stories all the time about people going with a smaller company, getting it built, then having to wait 6 months to...

This is why I never start new threads.

Pool thread is up in Grown up.

10-4. Been a busy week. Memorial Day week is usually the best time to go online and find deals on chems. Chem prices are through the roof since Covid and a hurricane wiping out one of the only plants that manufacturer chlorine tabs. As long as your cyanuric levels are ok you can rely on the...

Moving the pool discussions from the home buying thread to here. I've been in the pool biz in north Texas since 1999 with a few detours out of it along the way. I started off on the weekly service side of things and transitioned to construction three years ago. Last year I got 51 pools...

c Nice job doing your time without acting like a bitch about it.

So Foler was your alt huh? Or vice versa.

Salt water pools are much better for your skin and the water feels "softer". It's one of the main selling points. Rising pH is a problem with salt water pools but it's due to the fact that when you split a molecule of NaCl (salt) via electrolysis, the aqueous Na+ ion forms NaOH : sodium...

Yep, I'll start it tmrw in the Grown Up section.

If you shoot gunite you don't frame anything. I'm digging a little one tmrw and will document this one start to finish and make a thread about it in Grown Up. Might be interesting to some of you guys.

Wtf? You dug it by hand and then hand mixed concrete instead of just shooting gunite? No offense bro but that is some ass backwards, Mexican, do it the hard way shit. Rent a backhoe for a weekend and then call a gunite truck in. All that extra work and you probably didn't save more than a couple...

About 25,000 gallons. Giant waterslide built out of gunite with a grotto underneath it. Elevated spa. Propane fire pit. About 2k square feet of concrete decking. 16'x20' pavilion with an outdoor kitchen. These days a typical 15,000 gallon pool/spa combo with a nice big deck around it is gonna...

Yup. Cleaner: get a Polaris 280. They've been going since I started in 1999. They run forever and you just have to replace tire treads, bags, and backup valves when they wear out from normal wear and tear. Maybe a $100/yr. It's the one thing you DON'T want the newest latest product for. You...

Pool biz has been dropping off quite a bit since interest rates have shot up. There was a huge boom nationwide after Covid and lots of companies got overextended and are now just trying to keep their guys working. Never hurts to make a few calls and get a couple bids, I'm sure Tulsa has a few...

https://www.riverpoolsandspas.com/blog/fiberglass-pools-texas I'm not affiliated with these guys in any way, shape, or form but this is probably the type of thing you want to be looking at for that price range. Everything in OK is cheaper and things are slowing down so you might want to...

Last pool I had was 20 yrs old, no leaks. I ran the fill line from my house bib about 30 mins a week. That's the same as running your garden hose hose for thirty mins a week. And only during the summer months. That's a couple extra showers a week worth of water. When water temps get in the high...

Ya, I don't know much about above ground pools beyond that they sell em at Wal Mart. I think an in ground pre cast fiberglass shell is more appropriate for BFE locations.

If the water is clean and clear then 90% it's fine. To get something like cryptosporidium you'd have to literally be swimming with a baby that has a dirty diaper. Any non retard can follow the instructions on your test kit to keep the water good. 15%+ water bill is the dumbest thing I've read...

Salt systems have been around for 30+ years. Modern ones are fine and last about 3-5 years if you don't fuck up your chemicals. Warranties run three years on Jandy cells, not sure on the other two big manufacturers but I'm sure it's the same.

Salt levels in a pool are nowhere near what the ocean is. You also don't have salty ocean spray blowing over everything. The only metallics that come in contact with the water will be your salt cell itself and the copper manifold in your heater, both of which are corrosion resistant as long as...

I built 51 pools last year. Pricetags ranging from $55k up to $212k. If you have any questions hit me up.

Hell ya.

Will there be Rangers? If so, I'm in.

My teenage daughter has recently been dipping her toes into reading fantasy. Will pick up the first book for her to check out.

Over/under on Folger back to posting in this thread in a week? I'll take the over but not by much.

I bet that's a lot of fun on a fly rod!

Yep, as long as I can back into the water it's easy peasy.