Wave Outdoors Pools - Swimming Pool Planning

UrgentWAVEPOOLPLANNING7978 · OCT 27, 21:03

Automation Schedules That Follow the Swimming Season

A pool's needs change across the year. Early in the season the water may need more heating and longer filtration as the pool comes back into use. Midsummer brings heavy swimming, warm weather and long evenings. Fall brings cooling nights and lighter use, and winter brings closure. Automation schedules that follow those changes keep equipment running when it helps and resting when it does not. Opening the season When the pool reopens after winter, the water often needs

FiledWAVEPOOLPLANNING7978 · OCT 25, 14:36

Designing a Pool Area Around a View of the Garden

Some properties have a garden worth looking at: a mature planting bed, a flowering border, a stand of trees or a carefully tended lawn. When a pool is added, it can either compete with that garden or become a frame for it. Designing the pool area around the garden view lets both enhance each other. Place the pool to face the garden Orienting seating and the pool so people look toward the garden makes the garden part of the pool experience. A pool positioned between th

FiledWAVEPOOLPLANNING7978 · OCT 25, 14:34

Gunite and Concrete or Fiberglass: What Each Method Asks of the Site

Gunite and concrete pools and fiberglass pools reach the same goal by very different routes. One shell is built in place in the yard; the other arrives already made. That difference matters more than any material ranking, because it decides how the site is prepared, how equipment reaches the back yard and how much freedom the design has. How a gunite or concrete shell takes shape A gunite or concrete pool is formed on site. Crews excavate the shape, set reinforcement

FiledWAVEPOOLPLANNING7978 · OCT 25, 14:26

How Pool Planning Differs on a Newly Built Home

Adding a pool to a newly built home offers unusual opportunities. The yard may be a blank slate, the grading fresh and utilities recently installed. Construction access may still be open. At the same time, new homes bring their own challenges, such as settling soil, unfinished landscaping and builder-installed drainage that may not anticipate a pool. A blank slate allows integration Without existing landscaping, decks or structures, the pool can be placed and designed