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Swimming Pool to the Users Needs

Swimming Pool Size and Shape

Space around the swimming pool

The Shell that holds the Water

You can have a Spa, too

Poured Concrete

Swimming pool constructed with Poured Concrete

Largely replaced by gunite where the spray equipment is available, the poured concrete method has been abandoned by many companies because of the labor involved in setting the forms and the time it takes for the concrete to dry. After the forms are stripped, the concrete floor is poured, spread, and then troweled smooth by hand.

The bond beam along the top of the wall is usually the last structural step, unless it is incorporated in the pour for the walls.

Steel reinforcing is used in this type of pool, too. The rebars projecting from the walls must be tied to the rebars in the floor and bond beam.

Unlike gunite, poured concrete limits your choice to simple rectangular and circular shapes.

Other Swimming pool constrution materials are; Gunite, Poured Concrete, Hand-Packed Concrete, Masonry Blocks, Vinyl-lined Pools, Metal or Plastic Sidewall Pools, Fiberglass Pools, Fiberglass Shells and Hybrid Fiberglass, and Portable Pools.