Hello All! I have been reading your pool building experiences, and I hope you don't mind if i share mine. I am going the Owner/Builder route after a couple of years of planning. I got a lot of my inspiration from this forum.

We live about 20 miles outside of Lafayette, Louisiana. The area is growing, but certainly doesn't have the number of people and especially the number of pool builders that are in other areas of the country. This has given us a few challenges getting subs to go the owner builder route with us.

Things have been really going well so far. After day 5, we already have gunite. It's quite amazing to see it this far so fast.

Here are our specs so far. . . I say so far, because as owner/builder I've already made quite a few changes during the first few phases of construction.

Pool: 16x32 gunite 4 .5 x 5.5 x 4.5, brick coping and french grey diamond brite.

Equipment:
1 - 011012 INTELLIFLO PUMP WFINT 3.2KW
1 - 188594 QUAD 100 FILTER D.E. / CART 160GPM
1 - 460736 MASTER TEMP HEATER 400BTU NG LOW NOX
1 - 261152 DE VALVE KIT MP SM DE 2” THRD
1 - 520555 CELL INTELLICHLOR IC40
1 - 520556 POWER CENTER INTELLICHLOR
1 - LL105PMG CLEANER GRY LEGEND PLATINUM LESS PUMP GRY
1 - LA01N UNIVERSAL BOOSTER PUMP 3/4HP (NEW-STYLE)
1 - WMO-101 SHALLOW WATER FOAM JET
6 - Waterway Spa Jets (Not sure which ones yet)

Automation -
520509 i9+3 PERSONALITY KIT POOL/SPA COMBO
or (not sure yet)
520507 i7+3 PERSONALITY KIT POOL/SPA COMBO

520641 INTELLIFLO INTELLICOM - Stilll not sure if I need this with the intelliflow?
350122 CABLE INTELLIFLO TO INTELLITOUCH
520139 MOBILE TOUCH WIRELESS ASSY W/TRANSCEIVER
520138 INDOOR CONTROL PANEL WHITE
520136 LOAD CENTER W/BREAKER BASE

Here is a link to the gallery of photos i've taken so far:
http://picasaweb.google.com/LynAskinFamily

Please feel free to chime in. I'm open to any construtive criticism!

Thanks for looking!
Lyn