The backyard
Planning notes for a yard that already has a house on it.
Writing about the part of a pool project that happens before the dig: what a plan can settle, where the equipment ends up, what a subdivision review committee is looking for, and which office actually holds the answer for your address. Written for suburban lots in Waukesha County.
- Design What a Pool Design Actually Shows You What you get between the site visit and the shovel: what a scaled plan can genuinely tell you about your yard, and the questions no drawing will ever answer.
- Design The Automatic Cover Decides the Shape An automatic safety cover is a decision made before the shape, not after it. What it rules in, what it rules out, and why retrofitting one is a different project.
- Owning Who You Call After the Water Goes In A green pool and a failed shell are two different phone calls to two different companies. Where the line sits between pool service and pool construction, and why we only do one of them.
- Design One Pool, Two Children, Ten Years Apart A toddler and a teenager want opposite things from the same water. How a single pool is laid out to serve both, and to keep serving after both have grown out of it.
- Design Where the Pump Lives, and Who Hears It On a subdivision lot with houses close on three sides, the equipment pad is a siting decision with acoustic and plumbing consequences. Where it can go and what each option costs you.
- Planning What the Architectural Review Committee Is Looking At A subdivision review committee and a municipal permit office want different things and run on different clocks. What the committee actually reviews, and how to sequence the two so they do not deadlock.
- Planning Where the Water Goes When the Pool Comes Down Draining, lowering for winter and backwashing all put treated water somewhere. Where it is allowed to go is decided at plumbing rough-in, long before anyone needs the answer.
- Owning You Bought the House. The Pool Came With It. What to look at during the inspection contingency on a pool you did not choose, and the things a seller genuinely will not know about their own pool.
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