Pool Construction Time Lapse

[Bosch232]

I kind of ranted on Trex, but I'll tell you we do like it. It's just the price, my God...
That deck as you see built in the video cost me $11 per sq foot total, ready for use. That's 3 times the price of a concrete slab, but with my sloped site it would have required a ton of earthwork to prep for a slab.

And then there's the issue of burying an above ground pool. We got that pool for free, it's about 7-8 yrs old. The previous owner had it only about 6 inches in the ground, and there was a fair amount of corrosion on the buried structural members, including rust on the galvanized plates. So I wasn't too hip on burying an AG pool after seeing that. B

But it's all good, we really like it and are proud of what we did this summer.

[BigDave]

You should be proud! It looks awesome!

[Fuzz1]

Loved your video. Nice looking family too. How's the Trex deck working out now that you're into your second summer?

[Bosch232]

Thanks for the kind words. The Trex is fine. It definitely fades, though, so don't believe their hype that it won't. But I'm still happy I went with it.

[Fuzz1]

I figure that very few people would care about fading... me personally, I just want the thing to structurally last longer than I do. It's the same reason why I put in steel oil pipe fence posts around our last property, and PT rails. I figure I could fix a few fence pickets when I'm old, but I'd rather that the posts and rails last longer than I do.

[Bosch232]

If I had it to do over again, I'd build it just the same way.
The brutal heat and drought last year played hell with my heavy framing treated lumber, but no one can really see much of that.