I am in the middle of a new build and my husband is acting as GC so we did not hire a licensed builder for our project. We got our loan through Navigant Credit Union which is located in Rhode Island and we live in Massachusetts.

Hello, newbie here doing an owner/builder spa only. Wondering if anyone could recommend some considerations/must-have equipment for an in-ground spa. The spa is approx 11'x8' oval freeform shape. The spa will have a natural boulder waterfall going into spa and then a spillover on the front side that goes into a separate pool below. Specifically wondering number of pumps, size of pumps, size of heater, air-blower or no air-blower? Any recommendations that should be considered during the spa construction process. Thanks in advance for your help!

Thanks for the kind words about the pool, we love it! We decided on an interior product called Baja (Mini) Pebble in Electric Blue. It's very similiar to Pebble Tec, but the bid was roughly half of what we got from the 2 local PebbleTec subs. Not sure if anyone outside of Phoenix distributes it. We are fortunate to live relatively close to Fogco, which is one of the premier mist pump manufacturers in the US. Most of their pumps are sold to mist installation companies, but they also sell to regular joe's like me. I went over a couple times and worked out a material list with thm. Nice peeps! The pump is a 1000psi enclosed pulley driven pump located next at our equipment. We ran conduit under the patio for the high-pressure nylon tubing, which then goes up a column (still need to paint that) and to a tee. We purchased 7 10' sections of 3/8" copper pipe which were prefabricated to accept brass nozzels every 24". It took my father-in-law and I a total of about 4-5 hours to: figure out how to set up the inlet (with the filter) and outlet from the pump, pull and connect the the HP tubing, cut and sweat the copper pipe together, screw in 32 nozzels and fasten it all to the house/patio. My FIL is a very handy dude, so I would have taken 2x as long, but if you know how to solder and are fairly handy, you could do it yourself. BTW, They do sell brass couplings to use instead of solder. The slide is made by Step 2 and is called the "Naturally Playful Big Folding Slide". However, the brown/tan version that we have is not easy to find since Step 2 must have decided to change the color to brown/green. We found ours used on Craigslist.

We are looking for a bank that gives out construction loans for Owner builders didnt realize it would be this hard to find one. Hope someone can help?