Pool Shapes and Features

One of the many benefits of a concrete/shotcrete swimming pool is its customizability. You can truly design your swimming pool to fit and express your personality. Whether it's comfort and relaxation you are looking for, therapeutic reason, exercise, luxury, a contemporary look, a modern, natural, artistic look, or just pure fun and kid friendly you can make your swimming pool one of a kind. Some features that can be built as part the swimming pool structure are:

•    Sun shelf
•    Benches
•    Sunken bar stools
•    Bar top
•    Beach entry
•    Negative edge
•    Perimeter overflow
•    Waterfalls
•    Hidden in pool cover box
•    More!

Concrete pools also have the freedom to be shaped and sized to almost any means you want.  Just to express the shape freedom concrete pools have, in the past Manny Pools has built a pool shaped like a fish and a round equine (horse) therapy pool! Some popular concrete pool shapes are:

•    Freeform
•    Lagoon
•    Kidney
•    Geometric
•    Rectangular
•    L shaped
•    Grecian & Roman
•    Round
•    Lap pools
•    Custom

Visual features always add an awe factor. Visual elements can be many things from a custom rock waterfall to various colored LED lights. Adding visual features not only will make your pool area spectacular but can serve a practical purpose while looking good too. Some features are:

•    Colored pool lights
•    Bubblers (light colored)
•    Laminar jets (light colored)
•    Deck Jets
•    Pool & spa jets
•    Fire & water bowls
•    Fiber optic pool stars
•    Fire pits

There are also tons of other complimentary features that can be part of your pool. A benefit a concrete pool can provide is freedom of shape and depth which gives you the option to have your pool be designed for the use of a diving board. Depending on many factors such as type of diving board and health & safety code a required depth will be needed to have a diving board installed. Also, there are some specialty features that can be added to your pool like pool access equipment such as handicap pool lifts and built in ramps. Some additional features include:

•    Diving board
•    Water slides
•    Deck anchored basketball hoop
•    Volleyball nets
•    Lift chairs
•    Hand rails
•    Starting blocks
•    Ladders
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With a concrete pool your “must haves” can be completed and with so many options you may discover a previously unheard of “must have!” What are some of your swimming pool “must haves?” I know as a dad it would probably be a diving board, for my wife probably a sun shelf and for me some sunken bar stools and bar top.