Yeah, I was really thinking $100K but I’m not sure about size and what not ... it is nice. Emmy Rossum s pool is the tits too, people keep putting shit on top of the cooler and I need a beer dammit!
Ok upgraded by adding an autofill for $850 and scrapped the smart decking and will be putting travertine instead for an extra $3300. Pool company is insisting on shooting gunite tomorrow. I told them not to unless they get my permission first and have not heard back. Tomorrow should be drama.
About $400-500k would be my guess. A majority of the pools, this one include, that I work on are engineered and piered down to bedrock. This one also has an underground catch basin as the entire perimeter of the pool channels off and is caught underground and gets recirculated back up by sheer pumps. ~ $10-15k in LED lighting ~ $50-60k in tiling ~ $20-30k for geothermal heating/cooling ~ $15-20k in remainder of equipment, much of which is on a secondary equipment pad I did not include pic of.
Hell, you can shoot gunite straight up in the air during a blizzard. Whether or not that does any good for your pool that is being built is a totally different question.
I was just listing some of the extravaganzas. Believe me, the company that built this does not even go into a back yard on a new construction for much less than $120k. Their average remodel for an existing pool is probably around $50k. Would I spend that much on a new pool build, absolutely not. But there is a huge market for it and it is great job security.
Yes, if I had the type of money that these people do then I would be doing the same. I don’t have near that cheddar though so it is hard for me to comprehend.
So you think these guys would risk doing something that's gunna cost themselves a lot of money in the future?
I will field this one for the esteemed doctor. “Yes Dr Internet, your shell does appear to be fucked but we did a chemical test and your chemistry is way out of balance. Your warranty is void, good luck and call us if you want to pay us to re-plaster.”
A friend of ours had a gunite pool installed this summer and they called me over to look at it ( because having a pool for 8 months makes me an expert ) and you could visually see that the decking wasn't level from one end to the other. They knew it too, but when they brought it up to the contractor he told them the tiles just had to be reworked, like it was an optical illusion. No, the level of the water to the deck is 3 inches higher on one end than the other. He is going to have to remove the decking and start over to fix it correctly...I think. They are currently fighting over it and may have to go to court. All this just to say that the contractor has been building pools for 20+ years and they had the same thought as you. You are right to question anything that looks funny to you.
The payments for the pool are split into phases (1/3 before excavation, 1/3 before gunite, 1/3 before tile/coping/decking). I haven’t given them the gunite check yet.
Don't you have to water the gunite a couple times a day after installation anyway? May not be a big deal. Source: worked at a pool store when I was 15.
You do, but I think the issue is more shit ton of rain while the gunite is being shot would increase the water content of the gunite which is not good.
It has been a couple hours since I read it but "Gunite everyone" is still giving me a sensible chuckle. Thank you for this post.