Gee, I almost wished I was the one installing the pool with all the great information you furnished! Lol!

What chemicals? The only chemicals in my pool water are chlorine and salt. This water is far cleaner than sewer water or water from a washing machine or dishwasher. There is no legal issue here.

Autofill/drain automatically drains water when rain overflows the pool, dumping it to waste.

Pool or swim-spa
 

I found a swim spa is much easier to care for than a full pool, but if it’s enclosed so leaves aren’t blowing in, that will help. I wish I’d been able to have a room built around my pools to block winds and keep rain from falling on me. Not having protection from the elements limits how often I can swim, and I’d do it every day if not for wind, rain, cold, etc.

Good choice 👍
 

Hi,
We went with Fiesta Pools and they did a fantastic job, they are a hard working family firm and very reasonably priced.

They built us a spa and a pool with an island in it and a lazy river around it that you can either float around (with a beer 😂), or swim against it for exercise!

Thanks for the information.

If you decide on a standalone hot tub, look at Tuff Spas. They have a patented cover that is guaranteed for life. This is my 3rd hot tub, and I absolutely love the cover. 3 years old now, and the cover is still perfect.

https://www.tuffspas.com/tt-250/

Fiesta built our pool 2 years ago. We just gave them a deposit to build another at our new house so we were happy. We did make a few changes on the new one. Going with smaller sun shelf, different step design, adding auto fill, auto overflow, if possible, have a deck area at least 12 ft deep to have plenty of space for loungers & umbrellas, to control no serums, we have special no seeum screen (20 squares per inch instead of the standard 14). Definitely do salt water and oversized your pump and salt generator. Rectangle pool gives you the most swim area for the money. We love bubbler on Sun shelf and deck jets for lots of water sound and effect at minimal up charge. We prefer to not have a raised wall on back side of pool. Waste of money IMO and it
blocks views. Deck jets put off lots more sound than a sheer descent
waterfall and much less expensive.