Week 11

Not much happened this past week with the architect or the septic designer. I expected to get a review PDF of the house design from the architect, but it never arrived. We are meeting with him on Wednesday at 4pm to go over the design - hopefully we'll get the PDF before that so we can spend some time studying it. I'm surprised I didn't hear from the septic designer, two weeks ago he was asking for help to get the AutoCAD file opened.

I heard from the Cahan European Door company, they sent the quote I requested for the fold & slide doors I'd like to use in the pool room. As expected, the price was outrageous - around $20K to cover 24' of the 32' wall. I sent them email saying thanks, but way over budget.

I did find another fold & slide door company - HH Windows, in Seattle. They are actually a better choice than Cahan because they can go up to 20' wide (see below). I'm thinking that a 6x6 column at mid-span of that pool room outer wall would work well. That would require two sets of fold & slide, each having 6 panels of approx 30". Five of the panels would fold & slide, the end panel would be independent and swing inward. So, using two sets we'd place them so the independent doors meet at the center and the fold & slide panels would travel left and right. When the doors are open there would be approx 14' of opening on each side. Using that 6x6 post the rough opening would be 189.25" W x 95.50" H. I haven't worked this out with the architect yet, but will do so on Wednesday. I hope the HH doors are reasonably priced.

I received a magazine from the AquaQuip Pool Company - called Oasis. It's a good resource because it introduces you to a variety of pool equipment suppliers. One thing I want to employ is laminar flow water fountains (see below) with fiber optic lighting. These fountains are supposedly silent, engineered to make the water enter the pool at an angle and speed that make it silent. Another fountain I'll add is the FyreFly Jet. It sprays a number of streams into the pool, and is not silent. The fountain supplier is Water Crystal Fountains, and the lighting supplier is FiberStars. I'll also put some LED lighting in the pool and spa. A good supplier is O'Ryan Industries, especially their StarBurst series lights. I think the lighting will be very dramatic when the room lights are out.

The pool decking I'd like to use is Acrylic coating over concrete. One supplier is Kover Krete Systems. The materials come white; color can be added if wanted - I want it bright white.