DIY Pool Kits?

[jbhogfan]

Thanks CarlD, 9 ft would definately make me feel better than 8. Was the pool you went to a vinyl or a gunite pool, though? Doesn't that make a difference on the way the deep-end is constructed?

[waste]

Hi, a 20 X 45' would allow you to have the deeper pool and still have a 'standard' shallow end ~ 10 -12' without a hugely slanted transition slope. The deep end 'hopper' walls would probably change from the 4' standard to 6'.(again for ease of troweling the hopper walls)

With shot concrete pools, you have a little more leeway - you don't have to make the walls fit ~ perfectly to a premade liner and the material can be shaped into whatever you want

[CarlD]

Thanks CarlD, 9 ft would definately make me feel better than 8. Was the pool you went to a vinyl or a gunite pool, though? Doesn't that make a difference on the way the deep-end is constructed?

The pool at that camp? It was concrete--it was long, I think probably 60' or 75' (long time ago) and at least 25' wide--it had to hold a lot of kids! It was an institutional pool. Don't ask when I was last there!