Above Ground (AG) Pool Gallery

[CarlD]

This is an older picture of my pool, and, yes, it IS A/G. But it looks the same...


This is looking at the back of the house--it's attached to our deck:



and this is the gate look from the back of the house.



I did all the design work on all the woodwork on the deck and rails, designed and laid out the foundation and acted as my own GC.

The decking around the pool is all hollow panels and water gets pumped through them. So it's a solar heated pool, and the circulating water keeps the deck from burning your feet. Credit for that goes to FantaSea, who built the basic pool and solar decking. It's a custom size: 16'x40' with a 5'6" deep section. They usually do 20'x40' and 16'x32', or 12'x40' for lapping.

Since it's all cedar, every picket had to be milled by me, the gate is my own design, mortised and tenoned because I couldn't STAND the idea of a diagonal on the gate. Even the sill plate under the gate is custom-made by me. It's GREAT at keeping your toes from getting bashed. In 4 years, nobody's have been bashed by it! It's all to BOCA and town codes and passed inspections with no problem.

[mbar]

It is absolutely beautiful! It must be wonderful to sit there and think that you did it yourself! Best of luck, and happy swimming.

[CarlD]

Thanks! We really love it! It's not as fancy as some of our neighbors' I/Gs, but it really has a different look and complements the house. Plus it's long enough to be a real lap pool--my personal criterion of ANY pool.

Next job, though is to push out the pool's own deck. I can only go one direction--to the right of the gate in the gate picture, or the end fence you see in the in-the-pool pic. I want to be able to sit IN the enclosure without having to go thru the gate. It's a smaller job, but I'm still planning it in my head before I start in on formal plans--and we have to start cutting more pickets!!!! I think I have most of it licked.

[mammallama]

Carl, your pool is georgeous!

We also liked the idea of sitting in the pool area so we attached one (long) side of the pool to the existing deck. Hubby did a pretty good job at deciding where to dig for the pool. (We'd bought it second hand and installed it ourselves). ALOT if work, but worth the $$ it saved us.

I like the idea of the solar heating through the pool decking. Ours is made of tongue and groove aluminum panels that get hot, hot, hot when you're walking on them with dry bare feet. (I don't notice the heat when I'm wet). Would be nice to channel that heat into the pool!

[The Raddish]