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Old Jun 3rd 2013, 12:43 am
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Bear in mind your sight lines/blind spots when you're putting in your raised spa....friends built theirs with the spa in the middle on the house side, and first time they were in the pool they realized they had a massive blind spot from their seating area where they couldn't see the kids in the water. Meant if they weren't in the water with the kids, they had to sit out of their shady area, or on the edge of the spa in order to keep an eye on them.
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Our new saltwater pool. Woohoo.
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Originally Posted by Weeze
Our new saltwater pool. Woohoo.
You appear to live under a pyramid.

Nice pool though.
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Originally Posted by Weeze
Our new saltwater pool. Woohoo.
You couldn't rotate the picture huh?
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You couldn't rotate the picture huh?
I really don't understand why it's done that. If I click on it then it's landscape, but the mini photo is portrait. Decidedly odd.
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Originally Posted by Weeze
Our new saltwater pool. Woohoo.
Nice, plenty of mature trees too! (Our yard is nothing but grass at the moment - needs trees!)
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Originally Posted by Bink
Nice, plenty of mature trees too! (Our yard is nothing but grass at the moment - needs trees!)
3 of the trees are being held up with that elastic support stuff. There are loads of beautiful blossoms falling into the pool. Only been 48 hours so far, but so far so good!
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Here's the spa view complete with dog.
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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
Bear in mind your sight lines/blind spots when you're putting in your raised spa....friends built theirs with the spa in the middle on the house side, and first time they were in the pool they realized they had a massive blind spot from their seating area where they couldn't see the kids in the water. Meant if they weren't in the water with the kids, they had to sit out of their shady area, or on the edge of the spa in order to keep an eye on them.
Thanks Yorkie, that's a good point. This is why it's good to bounce things off people!
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Originally Posted by Weeze
3 of the trees are being held up with that elastic support stuff. There are loads of beautiful blossoms falling into the pool. Only been 48 hours so far, but so far so good!
Well congrats on your first 'merican house! Hope the move went smoothy for you.
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Well congrats on your first 'merican house! Hope the move went smoothy for you.
Corporate move - people packed, moved it and then unloaded and put things out of boxes in random places. It could have been a lot worse.
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I really don't understand why it's done that. If I click on it then it's landscape, but the mini photo is portrait. Decidedly odd.
I don't know how you are seeing that but when I'm using Windows 8 IE (version 10) or Firefox or Windows Vista using IE (version 9), I see both in landscape (90 degree out).
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Here you go Ray.
Like I said very basic. Builders special 1996 and upgraded tile and pebbletec surface in 2004.

We used to have white plaster but added new tile and the pebble tec finish.

http://www.pebbletec.com/products/pe...reme-de-menthe
love it...simple as mine ...but you don't screen like we do
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love it...simple as mine ...but you don't screen like we do
They aren't surrounded by snakes and man-eating alligators.
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