Thread: 60's Pool Renovation - Time for a Change

Thanks for the thread. Will be interesting to follow.

Must have been a couple of scientific experiments going on underwater judging by the last pics in your 1st post.

Looking good, Love the steps as an addition! Makes the pool pet and wildlife friendly as well in case of accidental tumbles.

Are you going saltwater or chlorine injection for your water treatment management?

Reason I ask is that if going the latter, while you have your side weir (skimmer basket) exposed is a great opportunity to tie in all the chlorine lines from the injector. Put in a bulkhead fitting of the appropriate size into the weir and have automatic chlorine dispensing, below water line, and invisible to the pool proper. You can bury all the piping before the back fill.

As an aside, I also used the side weir to tie in a flush mount, under water led pool light on my vinyl pool that throws an amazing light display in the evening. Routed the 12 vdc wiring through another watertight bulkhead fitting in the weir above the skimmer basket itself.

Not sure if you were adding a light in your upgrade, but highly recommend it..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Not sure if you were adding a light in your upgrade, but highly recommend it..

Totally agree. I have a Savi melody with all kinds of different setting from single color(s) to a light show. I ended up hooking it up to a timer so my pool is lit from sunset to sunrise. Always makes for a spectacular view into my backyard especially with the landscaping lights mixed in.

This was taken early last year when before I pulled those damn trees.

Beautiful shot Max. Fantastic accent lighting usage sir.
I too run a timer for my pool light but it shuts off 6 hrs after dusk, so about 2 am with our earlier sunsets this time of year.

I particularly like the Dachshund-cam view of the Nevada night sky.

The day starts with a grind..... they had to cut over 200 bolts to remove an old metal flange. It held the old coping in place. Next our third design decision. Lights? Yes please! In go 2 LED's. One at each end. Time to put all the dirt back and rough prep the area. The white Styrofoam sitting on the top of the walls is a form designed to cantilever the pool deck over the edge. At the corner you can see the grey coping is placed under it and screwed in place. It will all be covered by the deck. They still have to attach it to the top of the steps. The plan now is to do the forming Monday and deck pour shortly after. Still liking the progress made in 3 days. These guys rock. At this rate we may be swimming again sometime next weekend.

After a quiet weekend they were back at it early this morning. Started with roughing out the concrete deck forms. Time to cut a nice straight line in the flagstone top step (don't you just love it when a jack hammer shows up). Then finish forming around the top of the steps. After that stake the forms in place and smooth out the area. We decided to keep the geometric angles going with the deck shape. I like it. Last they scrapped the old pool floor and removed all the small roots. Another big day for the crew.

Once again I greet the crew with morning coffee in hand. First action is out on the street. Bags of powder and water going into the hopper. Now to get it to the pool. Only one way. Good old wheel barrel and sweat. Anyone care to do a Newton's 2nd Law calc on this? In it goes and a new bottom starts to appear. Looks real nice and smooth. Next comes the stone (wheel barrels getting a workout all day long). Add the rebar and we're ready for the deck. Last item for the day connecting the ground straps to the hand rail anchors. Done for the day! I've been told to expect a crew at 6:30am tomorrow morning. Anyone guess what's coming??