size of your baja shelf?
wendye0720
11 years ago
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11 years agobanana_fanna
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Water Depth of Tanning Ledge / Baja Shelf in a Vinyl Liner Pool?
Comments (6)Hi in Syracuse. We were surprised and happy to read your inquiry since it is so similar to our design issue and in the same area you are located. We are also in the CNY area and attempted to build a pool last year. We hit many issues-most having to do with our pool placement in our yard, that we have since changed. One other issue we had was the same as yours with the sundeck and how to do it. We have a pool ledge/sundeck in our design and we are wondering if you could share with us how yours was done and if you have success with it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!! We wish to have it in the first step if it's possible. Our PB was not familiar with the sundeck and has since done one as well. (Maybe we have the same PB?). We are also wondering if you did install returns and if you felt you needed them. We are told we could have 6in water on first step and we are not sure if that's enough, although we think it is. Our sundeck design extends 6 feet. Any guidance/photos you could provide would be wonderful. Thank you in advance and we hope your pool turned out fabulous....See MoreNeed a bench/baja shelf manufacturer for a vinyl DIY pool
Comments (6)Georgiapoollover: I'm in Virginia. We live in a little neighborhood where everybody is sitting on at least 3 acres, about 20 minutes outside of metro Richmond in the country. It's a great place to raise my 2 boys (ages 6 and 11). I'm hoping to get them some water to splash in this summer. (We've had a 18' Intex blow-up pool for the last 3 years, but the boys didn't even want to talk about putting it up again this year. Time to go inground!) The plan is to get water as quickly as possible, and then worry about the deck, pool cabana, landscape, etc. while the boys are swimming. It's nice to know that somebody is already swimming! I suppose it will be next summer before we throw any pool parties! Ya gotta start somewhere! Muddywater: My instinct says to hold up on ordering the liner until the step/bench is actually finished. Then measure exactly. As opposed to trying to construct it absolutely perfectly to the design. (I can work on the cantilever coping and the waterfall while the liner is being manufactured. So it really won't take any extra time.) At first glance the step depth seems like a pretty simple measurement as long as it is perfectly level, but the exact placement in the pool and the radius seems really tricky as there are no straight panels to reference. I'm assuming that I would be referencing the seems in the panels for measurement. Do you have any suggestions? I'm beginning to think that I have picked the absolute hardest design available, and that I'm working on making it harder! Or at least that's what DH seems to think! ;) Thanks! -Renee...See MoreLaminar jets and thatched umbrella in baja shelf?
Comments (2)My builder put in 3 bubblers on our sunshelf for free. The water turned out to be too deep for them to do much without adding risers, but not really a big deal since we didn't pay extra for them. We have 2 umbrella sleeves on our sunshelf as well, but don't have a thatched umbrella so I can't offer any advice there....See MoreBaja/Sun Shelf Size Question
Comments (10)My friend's pool is very much like yours, accept the circle is their spa. On either side of the circle, they put seats. What if you had your first two steps 6", then 12", then 18" in a straight line across the pool at the edge of the circle? Just an idea. Truthfully, my kids just loved my mother's steps when they were little. We have a small pool, too, and built a sunshelf that is hardly used. It is nice to look at, and highlights the spa, put if I could have a smaller step area I would. Maybe just making the top 6 " and the rest steps would be great. If you put it in the front right corner it would give you more pool space. I'll include a picture of our pool so you can see our circle idea. I can tell you're really working on a nice shape for your pool. Be careful with steps and shelves though, one time I was playing with my baby (13 now) and my 3 year old (16 now)was on the step right next to me. I turned to look and he had stepped off the shelf and was underwater looking at me and reaching for me. I will never forget those eyes and how I was just a couple of inches from him. Steps are great to play on, but be so careful. Do you have any part of the pool raised for interest? I have a spa that is raised a little, but if I could do it again I would have raise the back wall a little for more interest. One other thing that I noticed. Your light in your deep end is just like mine. I was told that it wouldn't shine towards the house, but it does...and right at us in the spa. Yours is going towards your house and patio. You may want to put two and have them going out towards the house. That is one of my "I wish they didn't talk me out of it" things with my builder. I hate it everytime I turn it on. Good luck!...See Morewendye0720
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