anniedraws

Thank You!!!

Thank you wantaspa! I just got their number. Our pool is a Hydra Pinnacle so I hope it is good. Any other pointers or trouble spots you have run into would be greatly appreciated!

I am very new at this...the DIY Inground Pool with the vinyl liner hasn't even arrived yet. Here is my dilemma. I researched doing it myself and being a gal who can do most tasks on her own didn't think the pool process would be too difficult but when I decided to hire someone for the pool bottom concrete/vermiculite I couldn't find anyone. The one and only estimate was higher than the actual pool! $7000. The walls are panels. Don't get me wrong, I do have a great contractor that helps me but he is unfamiliar with vermiculite and doesn't want to 'try' it. I thought maybe a very hard tamped sand bottom might work. Any thoughts. I am in Pennsylvania so the ground moving isn't a real issue...at least not yet. If I use sand how thick should it be? Fine or grittier? What would the downside be? I've read alot of the pages here and you guys can be tough...be nice, okay?