We have kids of 3 and 5. Put them in the water from day 1.

The 3 year old started swimming without a floating device this Summer. And she can probably last 1 minute.

A pool fo that size and without shallow areas would have been a danger for the kids for the next 4 or more years.

I would have not bought the house in the 1st place.... everything else is perfect apart from that huge hole in the back yard :rolleyes:

Now I think this solution is the best because you retain the pool for the future.

Last comment about the craftmanship.... incredible.

Agreed. No amount of 'training' will change that. A lot the comments posted imply just the opposite.

Kids that can swim + supervision + fence around the pool = no worries. While I think Wayne is definitely going the MIT route to solve a relatively simple problem, having a special needs child definitely changes the equation. My 4 year old couldn't last for an extended period of time in the water, but he could pretty easily swim himself to the side if he fell in. Ultimately I agree with Matteo though, I wouldn't have bought a house with a pool if I didn't want a house with a pool. In my case I didn't want a pool, and passed up a number of nice homes because they did.

Matt I agree about the 4yr old comment. But Wayne's youngest is 1yr old. That is why I said that it would be a danger for a while.

We have a pool and we have been all for getting our girls familiar with water from the beginning, but to this day (both of our girls able to swim) we lock the fence around the pool and they are prohibited from going eveen near the fence if we are not there.

Pools are dangerous. If you have kids then they are even more of a concern. I am sure Wayne thought this through when they bought the house (sure there were no 4 bed + 1 office and no pools homes for sale in So Ca??? :confused:)

It also seems to me that he went through a lot of different solutions and laternatives for covering said pool.

I am not an engineer so I cannot comment on the soundness of the structure...

I say good luck and I hope the pool underneath will still be usable when you decide to lift the deck (having said that usually the biggest expense when building a pool is digging it up... so no worries there).

Nice pool, yeah looks like a crazy project. But I understand why you would want to do this. Curious why you did not build the deck over the pool and use the edge as supports and you could shape it any way you want instead of conturing the pool. It would be much easier to remove/repourpose the deck that way too when your kids could use it.

My thoughts also. Fabricate a stainless bracket, hang off the pool edge and the deck surface is flush to the pool deck.

how did this end?

The macarena........many did not survive.

Catastrophically. Only the lawyers survived.

Yeah- I thought all of you guys felt it go down yesterday? It registered a 5 point something I hear...

Far more statistically dangerous than guns in fact.

Wayne chopped up all the wood to make a giant bonfire, and will use the pool for skateboarding and motorcross jumping;)

Typo, he meant fools.

WAYNE,
Did you ever publish the final picture?
Thought I saw it, and want to share with a friend...

Thanks, luis

Sorry. Just found the link to the final product.. Excellent.....

so where's that link?