re: putting in a pool

1- Call a pool builder and get an estimate.
2- Listen to what he says about equipment needed, placement and pool design.
3- Locate an excavator (Anyone with a backhoe and a dump truck.
4- Pull all needed permits
5- Hire out an excavator after you design the pool area (Stakes and twine with that orange spray pain will do)
6-Hire a crew to do the rebar and find a gunite contractor, plaster/tile contractor
7- Get the plumbing lines ran after the rebar is in place (the flex PVC is expensive but very easy to use. Regular PVC is ok but you will have connections and elbows to make it go where you want)
8-Buy the equipment (I recommend a salt chlorinator)
9- Pour the equipment pad and have electrical lines run off the break panel. (Install an individual breaker panel for the pool itself)
10- Run the lines for the lights


I did it in 2005 and saved over 10K. Built a quouted 45K pool for less than 32K. We had a spillover spa in the deep end. No fancy multicolored lights but I did invest in the interior control panel. I could run on or off anything from my kitchen.

We moved to Illinois in 2010. I miss my pool pretty much every day.