Coming along great...looks like it will be beautiful. Can't wait to see finished pictures. :)

great looking pool! I love the stone work.

Gorgeous!

What is your tile? It's very pretty (and looks great with the stone).

Ditto, cant wait to see it when its done. What do you call your coping?

Very nice!!

ChristiJ - not sure what the tile is called. I just picked it out of the PB showroom. I can see if it is a specific maker / pattern and let you know.

GK - the coping and steps are all Oklahoma Flagstone. The stone guys did a really good job of picking beautiful stones with lots of colors.

daisee86 - Are you in the North Texas area? The area looks like it...if so, what builder did you use?

Very pretty, thanks for the color name, I always wondered what type of flagstone it was called.

Tdub - yes I am in N. Texas. I used Riverbend Sandler out of Plano. I highly recommend them (at least thus far).

Very nice looking coping. If you don't mind, what was the cost per linear foot? Is the coping 12" wide?

-Gorilla

Daisee,

That looks awesome !!!! Can you please ask your PB the name and manufacturer of that tile. The combination looks great together !

Thanks'

Mac

daisee,

I am curious if you can share the dimensions (length and width) as well as depth of your pool. Thanks!

tdub - the pool is 3'-4'-5'. The pool/spa permiter is 85" (it says 80" for pool only). It is 28' long and at it'w widest point it is 18'6" across. The spa is 18" raised spa.

Gorilla - I don't know the exact width of coping (too dark for me to go measure) but I can tell you I can comfortably walk around it - I would say it is at least 12" wide. The contract says the Spa Cap is 14" and the pool coping is not noticably smaller. I don't know the cost per linear foot. They included it all in one price. I will ask the salesman and see if he has it broken down.

Mac - I will check on the tile and post response next week.

Glad everyone likes it. I think it turned out great. No activity at all this week which was disppointing until they showed up today and put in the deck form and cut my phone/cable/internet line AGAIN! I had a temporary line in from when they cut it the first time and finally got the permanent put in yesterday and I'll be darn if they didn't cut it today. How I have no idea. I am very tired of contractors and the trash they leave around. Great job on PB part but contractors will be contractors and I know from building a house, they just appear to have no concern or care for other people's property. It frustrates me to no end! Oh and I smell gas out by my gas meter (when I went out to put up the temporary fence when the annoying contractors didn't put it up today). I had to have the gas line rerouted, so I hope they didn't mess something up. At least its not buried yet and I can only smell it slightly when I am right next to the connection, so hopefully its not too dangerous and it will get fixed Monday morning. Sorry for rambling, but I am frustrated today!

daisee,

You should be able to call your gas compnay and they will come out to check your gas line. Something similar happened to us (non-pool related) and TXU came out around 10pm on a Friday night and found the problem and fixed it. That is not something you want to wait for to be fixed!

ChristiJ and Mac - tile is from Portobello Tile Company, the item is BEACHES SEA FOAM 95235E.

Gorilla - PB says Cost for Coping is in the $25 to $30 per foot Range. The walls are $40 to $70 per foot based on height,etc. These are very general numbers.

I know how you feel. I am at the exact stage you are right now. I am in Louisiana and we are having rain today and tomorrow. My form is done for my decking, but we will have to wait until Friday to pour due to the weather. The mess is almost unbearable especially with my dogs in all that mud every time they go out. I will be so glad when this is all done.

I can't wait to see more pics of your pool!

I am in the prelim stages of pool shopping. You mentioned having your gas line moved.

Do you have a contractor you would recommend and job estimate?

Looks great so far. I found the time between gunite and plaster to go so slow....

Regarding the gas... I would call the gas company immediately, you don't want to mess around with a gas leak, and they'll be able to address it right away... I wouldn't wait all weekend.

Oh, I love your stone work! Very, very pretty pool!

That looks really nice!! The multiple levels are going to look great when the decking is in. One small item- you've got some voids underneath your patio slab where the fill and/ or sand has washed out from underneath it (see 4th photo). Ask them to make sure and get some fill back underneath there before they deck that area packed in as tightly as possible so you don't have any future settlement problems.

I think daisee86 has flown the coop. I could be wrong, but I rememberlooking at her pool when we were pool shopping.

kickymarcia....we didn't have a gas line moved but we had one added. We did not get a heater, but we prepared for one if we decide to get one later. We poured our equipment pad to hold one and had the gas plumber stub up a gas line from our meter to the pad. It was basically $10 a foot. I was around 80 feet and the charge was $900. They told me if we do add the heater later we would need to add something to the meter to get more gas to the pool heater. I forget what the charge would be, but $300-$400 sounds right.

Hi all! Looks like my post got bumped up. The pool was finished around Thanksgiving and I have relatively few problems. Last weekend was the first we were able to get in the pool without freezing! It was a great Memorial Day. Here are some finished pics from fall and a few from this weekend of my nephew enjoying the pool. (I have replaced the fence and added landscaping since the pictures taken in the fall.)

Kickymarcia - the gas line was moved by a plumber contracted by the PB. I think the cost was $600 but it may have been $800. (I have forgotten by now.)

Let's see if I can remember how to post pictures...

Awesome Pool! What interior did you go with? I love everything about your pool including the color of the water!

firsttimepool - the interior is just a Medium Gray quartz plaster. Slightly more expensive than regular plaster. It is very mottled as I didn't brush it well enough but I actually kind of like the look. It is kind of natural looking.