Fiberglass Pool Chemistry (w/ Bill Khamis)

And that's it.

So you know, we, I learned those lessons.

Like I know when you're trying to install a 40-foot pool, it's real critical how level that flange is, how strong it is-

Mm-hmm

... to make the installation a, a simpler process.

And on these shells that are not made as durable as the ones that you decided to make, what would be the problems long-term that a homeowner might see? Would you see like bowing in walls? Would you see failures? What would you see?

Here's the thing.

Even if it's made a little on the thinner side or weaker side, once it's in the ground, you should be okay, Eric.

That is one good thing about the fiberglass shells.

I mean, I can't say that our competitors do weak jobs.

We just try to do the specific things that make it really easier for the dealer to deal with, from not having to flip it being upside down when it delivers, so it delivers right side up.

It's got four lift points that just are super rigid, so they can lift it with their, you know, their lifting straps and not worry about it caving in and stuff like that, because you can cause some, some surface cracks in the gel coat-

Yeah

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if you do that.

So we just made it rigid enough that it made it really easy to install, and then when you lift the corner, makes it a lot easier to get it level in the ground.

Yeah.

One of the things that's covered in our Construction 2111 class at Watershape University is the weight of soil versus the weight of water.

And in the geotechnical soils portion of that construction school, they talk about the pool is actually a lot lighter than the equivalent volume of soil.

And so if that soil is in expansive clays, for instance, when you do your soil study, well, expansive clay means it expands.

Mm-hmm.

And there's a lot of pressure that can push in, which is why you have a bond beam-On the top of a concrete wall, kind of like the rim on a salad bowl.

If you didn't have that bowl, you know, those pressures, you could bend the salad bowl.

But when you do have that 90-degree rim around it, it makes it very durable.

Do you have the equivalent of a bond beam that holds the soil back?