The Drawing

The pool drawing. You can draw your pool yourself it is not hard but if you are not use to draw drawing and count scale it will probably take awhile. Do not count on getting it right the first time. Remember the scale has to be 1: 8.00 which means 1 inch on your drawing is 8 feet in real life. Mark diameter and distance to wall and house on the drawing. When the pool is going to be drawn on the ground, it is drawn 6 inch wider then on your drawings because of the shell. Make sure you have that in mind so there are no inch missing. Mark where North are and the scale. Do also attach a drawing on how you want your pool depth to be.


Size.

There are a lot of distances you need to take in consider when you draw your pool. The distance between the pool and the wall, the distance between the pool and the house, if you are going to have a gas heater the distance between the wall and the exhaust pipe. Different cities can have different regulation on this and even your HOA can have some regulations that you have to take in consider when you draw your pool. If you want to have a slide maybe your HOA has regulation on how high it can be and how close to the wall. Gilbert has a 3 feet to any building limit. If you have a slide, the pool has to be 14 feet wide where the slide ends.

Steps.

How many steps you should have depends on how deep your pool is going to be at the end where the step is. A step should be 12 inch. If you want one of the steps to be bigger for you to sit on, a depth of 18 inch is good. The depth is usually measured from the water level so the first step could be - 6 inch, the next one -18 inch and so on.

Benches.

Most builders have a certain amount of linear feet of bench and step included in the price. How much varies and this is probably one of those thing that you can get more of for free. The benches are usually -18 inch below waterline. If you are planning to have a deep pool, a bench can help swimmers to get out of the pool more easy, to rest on when they swim, or just have somewhere to wait for a friend coming down the slide.