Above Ground (AG) Pool Gallery

[KPROMERO]

Watch out for my guard dog.

27' round x 4' deep = 17,204 gallons

[mbar]

Jetta, Your water is so clear is looks like there isn't any in the pool!!

Kpromero, love the puppy!

[NWMNMom]

Well that is either a Fanta Sea (they are awesome ONground pools, CarlD has one) or an IG, in which case its in the wrong thread and should be moved...

Anywho, here is my try at posting inline...

Ours is just operational for less than a week now, but we did actually get our first test drive family swim yesterday and I have to say - I LOVE our new pool. There is still lots of landscaping, etc to do but now its "Our Pool"....instead of just "The BIG job"

Pic 1 - Pool toys, snorkeling equipment and swimming begins! Panel rack and poolside shower shown - both our DIY projects.


Pic 2- Ray, our Macaw, wants to try the snorkeling fins too!

[mammallama]

Our pool is a 12 x 24 ft Kayak pool that we sunk a few feet into the ground (so it would line up with the existing deck on the side of the house). We bought it second hand for a steal, put a little $$ into getting some new parts (liner, filter, ladder) and have been loving it for about 4 years now.

Here are a few pics from outside the pool area.

[hoffmans]

Mammallama-
What is that beautiful blue material surrounding your pool deckside? Blue carpeting? Blue tile? ???? What is underneath it? Wood 2x4's? Aluminum decking?
Just dying to know- the first pic makes it look very inground!
Hey, I just noticed- The water is moving in your pool-you must have the pump running !!!

~hoffmans

[medvampire]

Here are a few of mine. I will add some more as I snap them. Just finished the house a few weeks before the pool was done so I haven't done the land scraping or grass yet.

[Tpope]

Hey I like the gator. Where did you get that floater? How much was it....

[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.