To be clique, all good things must come to an end. After 25 years, I was tiring of the annual start up and shut down of the pool. Cleaning the pool was a chore. Nobody was using it so cleaning of the pool was done occasionally resulting in more time. The kids were no longer…
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We bought our share of solar covers. Since we had a 16 foot by 32-foot oval pool, I always needed to trim the cover. Some came as a 16 foot by 32-foot rectangular shape. Others came as ovals but did not fit the shape of the pool. We depended on the sun to heat our…
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Like the railings, the gate would be made of 2 x 4 rails and stiles and 2 x 2 balusters. How the gate would operate was the issue. I did not want anything on the pool deck to help with the gate that would cause toes to be stubbed. I thought about a sliding gate,…
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I continued my work on the pool deck. I now would start on the filter side of the pool deck. Things went fairly well. I designed and built a hatch opening to get at the filter skimmer cover. The filter itself would be placed on a concrete pad outside the deck. I planned on building…
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Using pressure-treated deck boards was the most cost-effective way at that time. There were some man-made products on the market, but they were very costly. Now you can find a variety of types and colors of decking at your home improvement stores for a decent price. I was not going to use the one-inch thick…