Matt - we are the home owners - we spent 12 years designing, engineering, creating the construction plans, selecting materials / equipment and saving money for the pool, and then contracted with a local builder and his contractors for the technical portions of the build. We did some of the less specialized work like the pavilion, first deck coating, fencing, some of the demolition, irrigation systems, artificial turf under the trampoline, etc to help save some money.
chemical commander yeah - not continuous on the planning front - but saving the whole time. Usually we would work on the design a bit here and there as we saw things we liked on pool shows or ideas my wife spotted on Pinterest. I did the CAD work and we probably went through a couple dozen versions of the pool till we landed on its current form. We had the lot drilled by geotechnical engineers and the shell designed by another firm based on the soil core samples. When we were comfortable with the design, we reached out to a local builder to contract the trades.
@@SilverAsh0356 and westerners have homes but still want to live in wild. Pretty reasonable!! Bdw why don't you stop using Google. Its ceo n 30% workforce is Indian you know.. racist piece of sh!t!
My heart sank when you showed the photos of what the hurricane did after getting that gorgeous pool installed, but glad you guys got it looking great again👏🏼
Yeah if your BUILDING you need an inheritance. But buying a house with a pool already installed is much more reasonable. Being that you didn’t design the pool.
That’s the biggest residential pool I have ever seen in my life and I’ve seen some wild pool build’s I’ve built and worked in the business for over 10 years for a place called Blue Haven pool’s also ran a cleaning service and this is even bigger than the apartment pools I had 😂😂 super rad pool! Congratulations
Former Landscape Architect... AWESOME JOB... when you do it right from the beginning and don't cut corners... you end up with a superior end result... this is best residential pool I have seen built start to finish... it will last for generations with proper maintenance...
Been over 40 years since I did any gunite work; but this footage went way to fast to tell if this was actual gunite or shotcrete at first; then I saw where they were shoveling rebound out which indicates gunite. Gunite is a dry mix with water injected at the nozzle and shotcrete is a wet mix with air injected at the nozzle. Many people got ripped off in the past getting pools built by shotcrete vs actual gunite; being charged a gunite price vs what is charged for shotcrete. Gunite is far stronger than shotcrete. Anyhow, I was very impressed with the way the pool was laid out using the earth as the form vs building a separate form and back-filling. Nice job guys!
Everyone is complaining how it is too big and there isn't enough yard space left for anything. If you watched to the end you can see that the people this pool is made for is for Swimmers. They don't play soccer or football for sport, then swim. This pool is do big because it is a lap pool that they use for practice. Of course no one needs a swimming pool this big just for chilling and hanging out. They are using this pool for training. It needed to be this size.
I am so happy this video actually spent some time showing the owners/people swimming in it. So many vides just show a huge build, but kind of miss out on the "using it" part. Thanks. And thanks for including the cost details.
That little bobcat driver deserves a raise. He sure can make that thing sing. Getting thru that little space was amazing. Wonder if he counted how many loads if was!
I never realised just how much work goes into making a swimming pool. I was really impressed by the expertise shown by the construction team - truly amazing professionals. How lucky to be able to have such a lovely pool. Enjoy!
Ugh I’m so jealous! This is my dream 😭 That’s such a beautiful pool. It broke my heart when I saw the hurricane flood the area. Y’all are so lucky and blessed. I hope one day I can have my own in ground pool.
I like the fact we are all talking about the pool but can we take a moment and appreciate the fact these guys were hard at work even when the sun went down
I am so freaking jealous right now of the family with that pool. I swam competitively for 4 years and still swim laps on occasion. I need a pool like this in my life.
25m=82ft 🤯 ❤️ Adding pavilion 💯 Wow has to be 1 of BEST POOLS I have seen!! I've watched ALOT of pool videos and never seen so many ppl working on a pool @once!!! 🤯
I’m impressed with how far you went with the height of the water, not only did you make entire backyard into pool but you also made your neighborhood into a pool. Now that’s called dedication 😂
One of my dreams is to have a version of this pool installed in my backyard. Mine would be half as wide with no deep end, and no jacuzzi. I'd probably go with a saltwater pool so that I could add a real shark to lend a sense of urgency to my workouts.
he said it cost him like 200k and maintaining it cost him like 700 a month. i would be happy just to have a third of that without the jacuzzi too. 50-70k and 250 a month to maintain it seems reasonable to me if wife pays half.
If you had told me that "someone could dig an entire pool with a skidsteer", then I would have responded "that would take forever". Yet, it only took 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Impressive. :)
Thank you for sharing your experience through this video and the construction remarks. A pool is about sharing. This is what you have done here. Proportions aside, I will try to replicate your work. Cheers!
RELAX! The tunnel is just three feet long-the bridge over the moat that surrounds the spa. The nighttime swim makes the moat appear to be a long tunnel.
Thank you I was thinking the same thing. They had so much space to work with. They could of built a smaller pool and had room for other backyard stuff.
That pool is built better than 99% of American houses with that much reinforcement! That thing will survive any hurricane, so you can live in it as soon as your house is gone ;D
Don't understand people dislinking videos like this one. It takes an enormous amount of dedication and planning to complete a project like this. We are fortunate enough to witness the labor and all the effort that has been put into this. The video editing must have taken a lot of extra time too! People are jealous and cant help themselves but shit on others that have money which they probably earn it through hard work over their life. I'm jealous too but very much enjoyed the making of this project and it makes me wanna sell my house, build another one and dig a pool instead of an above ground one like I have here haha Again, great work and glad you had budget for that fence lol Cheers.
Wow! This is my dream... 😍 If I ever win the lottery this would be the first thing I'd do. I don't need a fancy car or anything but my own pool would be the best thing ever 😁 I would definitely use it every single day. I used to be a voluntary rescue swimmer and taught kids how to swim. Unfortunately now I'm chronically ill and can only walk with crutches, but being in the water feels like freedom 😊 So I'm glad I chose swimming over football as a kid because I can still swim if someone drives me to the pool. Not the same as I used to but it works fine using only one leg, while playing football with one leg would definitely be more difficult 😂
Very cool, but it almost feels like too much pool, now you got less backyard, there’s that perfect balance of pool and backyard, and backyard is usually like 70% to 30%
Looking the end of the video it's clear they are swimmers so I don't think that's a waste of money, but an investment... It's like a basketball player building a basketball gym...
Details about pricing and pool specifications can be found in the video description area.
Facts
Are you the home owner, pool builder, or both?
Matt - we are the home owners - we spent 12 years designing, engineering, creating the construction plans, selecting materials / equipment and saving money for the pool, and then contracted with a local builder and his contractors for the technical portions of the build. We did some of the less specialized work like the pavilion, first deck coating, fencing, some of the demolition, irrigation systems, artificial turf under the trampoline, etc to help save some money.
@@BackyardLapPool 12 years?
chemical commander yeah - not continuous on the planning front - but saving the whole time. Usually we would work on the design a bit here and there as we saw things we liked on pool shows or ideas my wife spotted on Pinterest. I did the CAD work and we probably went through a couple dozen versions of the pool till we landed on its current form. We had the lot drilled by geotechnical engineers and the shell designed by another firm based on the soil core samples. When we were comfortable with the design, we reached out to a local builder to contract the trades.
I was expecting a single person to build this in the middle of a jungle with only a spoon, but great video nontheless!
'Most beautiful pool built by fancy mansion' would be the vid you want🤣
😂😂😂love those videos
Litterally thought the same 😂
Me too!!
No spoon used here...this is a "lot of money pool". 😂
I know 2 guys that could have done this whole job with sticks
Lmao
why doesn't this have more likes lol
Yes haha
I thought the same thing, they need a time lapse too
Haha. I'm pretty certain they are why this was recommended to me.
Mad respect for driving that thing thru that small entrance back and forth 45000 times.
If it was 72 x 12yd truck loads and the Bobcat looked like he was loading a full-ish bucket then that makes it ballpark 1,000 times
Cassette Walkman they did! The math!
At first I was thinking surely you can afford to hire a bigger bobcat then realised it was because of the small space
that guy has no nerves left
Right
this home better produce multiple generations of record-breaking elite swimmers.
This pool is bigger than my home.
Yeah,in brazil speak:
Caraca mano essa piscina é maior que minha casa ;-;
@@ana_chan4728 Pq ele ia querer saber isso? Ksksksk
Same
Same
@@nickkellie wtf
This was good... But I prefer the two Indian guys with a stick.
😂😂
behind the scenes with the excavator 😂
Eww indian build it won't last any year Lol at least this have cement, tiles and clean water
@@SilverAsh0356 sounds racist to me
@@SilverAsh0356 and westerners have homes but still want to live in wild. Pretty reasonable!! Bdw why don't you stop using Google. Its ceo n 30% workforce is Indian you know.. racist piece of sh!t!
Your kid's better won some gold in Olympics
Might be his kid a swimmer gold medalist!
My heart sank when you showed the photos of what the hurricane did after getting that gorgeous pool installed, but glad you guys got it looking great again👏🏼
According to my insights, "They are Rich"
Is that you captain obvious???
I'm going to guess this is around the Sugar Land area of Houston... lol
@@JacqueCharwood lol
No Sh t
Yeah if your BUILDING you need an inheritance. But buying a house with a pool already installed is much more reasonable. Being that you didn’t design the pool.
Tht harvey thing was soul draining for a min, glad they got the backyard bk
I'm already stressing about the water bill and it ain't even mine haha
Who pays for water?
@@mr.be.5630 me for a bottled water
Don't worry, they're rich😂
Who cleans the pool
@@mr.be.5630 Lots of people. I do and I live in a gated community. It sucks cause the water tastes awful.
That’s the biggest residential pool I have ever seen in my life and I’ve seen some wild pool build’s I’ve built and worked in the business for over 10 years for a place called Blue Haven pool’s also ran a cleaning service and this is even bigger than the apartment pools I had 😂😂 super rad pool! Congratulations
Was not expecting the hurricane Harvey part😂
@Phizz 15:07
None of us Houstonians were expecting it, it was supposed to hit Corpus Christi 🤷♀️
I mean, I like big pools but also big yards.
It's a lap pool. Probably for practice.
They swim in the olympics and private lesson coaches no names will be mentioned but it’s also their business to have a world class pool.
Thank goodness it’s not your house
Can't have everything
The hurricane part took me by surprise I was like that’s a step in building a pool?
Mom Margret well it is in fact all pools made must be tested by the might of the storm
Kira Yozuro 😂
Time stamp
Mom Margret could have filled it for free hahahah
Calvin Williams lmao I was thinking the same thing 😂😂 but they’d have to clean it anyways
Former Landscape Architect... AWESOME JOB... when you do it right from the beginning and don't cut corners... you end up with a superior end result... this is best residential pool I have seen built start to finish... it will last for generations with proper maintenance...
I see you do self maintenance, but if it gets real nasty, don't forget to holla ya boy for the pool work!
😂😂👌🏾
I just watched his pool cleaning tiktok XD
👏🏽👏🏽👌🏽👌🏽
And give him a drink, as a customer
"Holla ya boy for the pool work"
this video called me poor
Me too
relate
I vow lol
Yep me too
Same Here... I was depressed after watching this..🤔
The way the little girl was in the deep side I could tell the family are swimmers so a pool this size is probably something they use daily
they've also got centre markers and lane ropes
The family are not just swimmers, they are rich...
Such an ambitious project, to have your own 25 meter pool would be a huge luxury
At least the hurricane didn’t hit when it was a dirt hole... that would have sucked
That’s a wealthy neighborhood..
thats a middle class neighborhood in Texas.
Get rid of of the neighborhood and leave the hood that where I live
@@jackblackler9189 YOU DON'T HAVE NEIGHBORS 😧😧😧
*rich
I agree
The pool takes up the whole yard. Family must be professional swimmers. Very beautiful, I enjoyed watching.
Been over 40 years since I did any gunite work; but this footage went way to fast to tell if this was actual gunite or shotcrete at first; then I saw where they were shoveling rebound out which indicates gunite. Gunite is a dry mix with water injected at the nozzle and shotcrete is a wet mix with air injected at the nozzle. Many people got ripped off in the past getting pools built by shotcrete vs actual gunite; being charged a gunite price vs what is charged for shotcrete. Gunite is far stronger than shotcrete. Anyhow, I was very impressed with the way the pool was laid out using the earth as the form vs building a separate form and back-filling. Nice job guys!
"lap pool" is a bit of an understatement. This is full on swimming pool.
shit, you can have kayak races in that pool
When your whole family are competitive swimmers :
Everyone is complaining how it is too big and there isn't enough yard space left for anything. If you watched to the end you can see that the people this pool is made for is for Swimmers. They don't play soccer or football for sport, then swim. This pool is do big because it is a lap pool that they use for practice. Of course no one needs a swimming pool this big just for chilling and hanging out. They are using this pool for training. It needed to be this size.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If I had the yard this is what I would have built.
And to be drug traffickers or friends of the deep state to afford it 😱🤣🤣🤣😊😂😂🤣🤣 its bigger than public pools in the UK
yeah,obviously they just watched the first half of it,did not go tru the end! 😂
That pool has a nice house.
Imagine the pressure on the guy cause he had to pass between those walls without damaging them, kudos to him
And how often he had to pass this way...
As a competitive swimmer I am very jealous 😂 imagine being able to practice in your backyard. 🤩 I love it guys good job!! 👍
Must be awesome to have that in your own backyard. I'm a former swimmer so I know the feeling. And the butterfly is still my favorite stroke to do!
I am so happy this video actually spent some time showing the owners/people swimming in it. So many vides just show a huge build, but kind of miss out on the "using it" part. Thanks. And thanks for including the cost details.
This pool has better structural integrity and foundation then most of houses in the US.
Yet, it takes an extreme circumstance like a high rated tornado to knock down a house.
That little bobcat driver deserves a raise. He sure can make that thing sing. Getting thru that little space was amazing. Wonder if he counted how many loads if was!
I never realised just how much work goes into making a swimming pool. I was really impressed by the expertise shown by the construction team - truly amazing professionals. How lucky to be able to have such a lovely pool. Enjoy!
You can tell the did a good job by how straight the water is on top of the pool.
Well done.
when i seen the bonus footage i realized why they built such a large pool
Whoever owns this place, can you adopt me???
I just watched someone practically flex all their money all over me for 21 minutes... and enjoyed it
I came here for this exact comment.
Ikr
Yeah but you saw the end?? Harvey messed em up :( .. such a shame
@@jamesfeltner124 same here
@@PJJ196 They are doing just fine. 😆
Ugh I’m so jealous! This is my dream 😭
That’s such a beautiful pool. It broke my heart when I saw the hurricane flood the area. Y’all are so lucky and blessed. I hope one day I can have my own in ground pool.
This pool is better than our local aquatic center!
In my town we dont have any local aquatic center 😔👌
Not $200-400k better though...
Now let’s just take some time to appreciate how much time and effort is put into something as simple as a swimming pool
I like the fact we are all talking about the pool but can we take a moment and appreciate the fact these guys were hard at work even when the sun went down
One day I'm gonna have a lap pool. I miss swimming competitively a lot now that I'm older. Awesome build, it has lane lines flags and everything
That pool is perfect. Lap pools are never too deep.
I am so freaking jealous right now of the family with that pool. I swam competitively for 4 years and still swim laps on occasion. I need a pool like this in my life.
Wow That’s amazing, they did the whole job only under 22mins
Wait, this is 20 mins 😳 feels like i’ve been watching this video for hours and i’m only on 14 mins ,, Jesus save me.
25m=82ft 🤯
❤️ Adding pavilion 💯
Wow has to be 1 of BEST POOLS I have seen!!
I've watched ALOT of pool videos and never seen so many ppl working on a pool @once!!! 🤯
See yall when this gets recommended again in 10 years 😗✌🏽
I’m impressed with how far you went with the height of the water, not only did you make entire backyard into pool but you also made your neighborhood into a pool. Now that’s called dedication 😂
One of my dreams is to have a version of this pool installed in my backyard. Mine would be half as wide with no deep end, and no jacuzzi. I'd probably go with a saltwater pool so that I could add a real shark to lend a sense of urgency to my workouts.
😂😂😂
Gonna be swimming so fast you'll be the aqua-flash
LMAO
he said it cost him like 200k and maintaining it cost him like 700 a month. i would be happy just to have a third of that without the jacuzzi too. 50-70k and 250 a month to maintain it seems reasonable to me if wife pays half.
Yeah I got a pool in my backyard too.
The $40 inflatable one from Costco.
Same, and since I don't even like the cleaning and upkeep for that one I think I know that anything much bigger is not for me!
Were they trying to host the next olympic swimming event? That is huge.
The most amazing thing about this video is that dozer having to drive through that tiny gap 1,000 times without hitting the house
@@6thUser you can literally see the pieces of wood on the wall of the house and garage just to protect the brickwork
yes, 50 seconds in and I'll think about this for the hole "dig" section...
This pool has more square footage than my home! Crazy!
If you had told me that "someone could dig an entire pool with a skidsteer", then I would have responded "that would take forever". Yet, it only took 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Impressive. :)
That water bill watching this like👁👄👁
And their bank account be like: Money goes BRRRRR
This needs more likes 😂😂
There is a whole filtering system. It’s chlorine water
when the girl went in the underwater hole my anxiety rose up
omfg yes!!!!
Same!! I couldnt catch my breath
My anxiety kicked in when she went thru the mini túnel under the jacuzzi, I’m like what if she gets stuck in there 😂 🤦🏻♂️ oh nooooo.
Lol same! I can't hold my breathe underwater for too long so it felt like I was the one in there and I was scared what if she drowned
Yeah, me too.
You guys are lucky, I mean not everyone could have this such huge spaces and budget.
Thank you for sharing your experience through this video and the construction remarks. A pool is about sharing. This is what you have done here. Proportions aside, I will try to replicate your work. Cheers!
the tunnel gives me anxiety.
What tunnel?
RELAX! The tunnel is just three feet long-the bridge over the moat that surrounds the spa. The nighttime swim makes the moat appear to be a long tunnel.
I cant figure out where the tunnel begins and ends.
If you look closely you can see that there is no tunnel. Its just the way around the jacuzzi.
The night makes it look like as if there is a roof.
Me too
Me : You have a pool in your backyard?
This Guy : My backyard is a pool.
that underwater tunnel thing makes me scared like imagine being stuck in there
If it helps, she was swimming in the open area around the hot tub so you could go up for air at any moment if needed
Absolutely amazing what you can do when you have money. Nice pool.
Clearly a family who are Olympic standard swimmers fabulous job. 🇬🇧
Imagine being able to just dump 200k into a backyard pool..
Oh yeah, rich people spend way too much time and money on houses. (source, I come from a rich family)
@@rainless (sources trust me dude)
dont forget, you are likely to get that money back when reselling the house. Thats the beauty of real estate
@@rainless money is worthless, homes can increase with value, and accrued equity
@@rainless omg fr they be paying people to paint and remodel their house instead of doing it themselves its crazy to me
I’m so high I thought this guy was playing Minecraft
This deserves too comment
Lol!!!’
A moment of total admiration for the Bobcat operator. MAD skills!
No shit…. He killed it. I would have gone crazy one bucket a time like that
I can’t get over how huge this pool is
Exactly That Could Be Another House Space
That pool has a better infrastructure than the whole house.
You should've hire the guy who built swimming pools in the middle of the jungle
THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING PRICES as well as detailed dimensions. Loving this pool
That would be nice but now they hardly have any grass in their backyard 🙃
This video just called me poor
Pool guys: How much pool do you want in your backyard?
Owners: yes
You have to really, Really, REALLY LOVE swimming..... Or just really hate mowing the lawn.
Haha
That much money, don't think they were mowing their own lawn.
okay. we all got to admit. we stay up until 5am watching pool “building” videos..
Me: Why do you need a pool that big?
American: Yes.
They swim competitively. It's for practice.
For real lol...the whole garden gone. Pool probably won't even be used half the time too
Thank you I was thinking the same thing. They had so much space to work with. They could of built a smaller pool and had room for other backyard stuff.
They’ll use it every day unless it’s snowing most likely. They’re competitive swimmers.
Love how people say American like others dont do stuff like this lol get out more
Funny how we all got this recommended on the same day
That pool is built better than 99% of American houses with that much reinforcement!
That thing will survive any hurricane, so you can live in it as soon as your house is gone ;D
I really just watched all of this start to finish....
No one's gonna talk about how there was a litteral flood that took over everything
Don't understand people dislinking videos like this one. It takes an enormous amount of dedication and planning to complete a project like this. We are fortunate enough to witness the labor and all the effort that has been put into this. The video editing must have taken a lot of extra time too!
People are jealous and cant help themselves but shit on others that have money which they probably earn it through hard work over their life.
I'm jealous too but very much enjoyed the making of this project and it makes me wanna sell my house, build another one and dig a pool instead of an above ground one like I have here haha
Again, great work and glad you had budget for that fence lol Cheers.
That pool is ginormous, for a home residence. The work shown is still impressive.
Never thought that building a pool would need a fuck ton of people 🤔
I mean if you want the process to go a lot faster. For that size of pool I would recommend a lot of people
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Imagine the pressure the kids feel😂 If my dad built this in my backyard I would feel obligated to go to the Olympics.
Wow! This is my dream... 😍 If I ever win the lottery this would be the first thing I'd do. I don't need a fancy car or anything but my own pool would be the best thing ever 😁 I would definitely use it every single day.
I used to be a voluntary rescue swimmer and taught kids how to swim. Unfortunately now I'm chronically ill and can only walk with crutches, but being in the water feels like freedom 😊 So I'm glad I chose swimming over football as a kid because I can still swim if someone drives me to the pool. Not the same as I used to but it works fine using only one leg, while playing football with one leg would definitely be more difficult 😂
And I would add a counter current system. That's so much fun and good training 😊
Great to hear you being happy while in water
Cleaning + water Bill's must be outrageous.
Some people are really living life and others are just watching them live it smh
Texas man houses are cheap as hell down there
Nothing is cheap about installing a 200 thousand dollar pool gimmie a break
This comment has "just stop being poor" energy
Yeah, some are just accompanying those living large and watching outside the fence...
@@littlekittykat3018 This comment has "I'm lazy but it's everyone else's fault" energy.
I see RUclips has brought us together again
The things people will do to get out of mowing large lawns.
haha but maintaining a Pool is a lot of work too!^^
As much as I'd love to have a pool... That poor back yard could've been utilized so much more than that.
If they’re a family of swimmers it’s been utilised fully lol even private coaching, make some money back lol
Koi, it depends completely on who uses the yard. I doubt they would have done it if they didn't consider it to be of value to them.
considering the evaporation figures it seems to be in a desert
The price of their house just increased so much
Very cool, but it almost feels like too much pool, now you got less backyard, there’s that perfect balance of pool and backyard, and backyard is usually like 70% to 30%
If this is perfect for him, I dont care
Totally agree. I actually pity them. Unless they make money from the pool or really need it, it seems such a waste of good space.
Yeah true.. I think even standard hotel pool are smaller than that..
It looks like he is a professional swimmer so I guess he prefers more pool than backyard
They probably need it
This guy: "Let's build a big pool in the backyard"
Hurricane Harvey: "Why not do the whole backyard?"
Could you imagineee waking up and that’s in your backyard everyday... sheeeeeshhhh
They wasting money while indian guys buildin undergtound temple for free
Looking the end of the video it's clear they are swimmers so I don't think that's a waste of money, but an investment... It's like a basketball player building a basketball gym...
Foreal 🤣
Clara Tackla unless they’re actual pro swimmers, that’s not an investment
@@blakeramsey3373 It is, the pool increase the value of the property.
XIAO actually, pools make homes a lot harder to sell. Look it up
My German teacher built one similar to that one.The only difference is that it took him 5 years to finish it because he did it all by hand.
Wow that's so cool! Why do teachers have crazy stories, my english teacher hunted a bear lol
@@whiteboard5612 wtf my teacher is a navy seal if you now what that is
Haha! "Länge läuft!" 🤪😂
@@whiteboard5612 as a young teacher w no such accomplished : nervous anxiety noises
Man it's very easy to loos your health during building that. I do know from my expirience.
That hurricane was the most unexpected plot twist ever
Who needs a pool when you got river