How to Install a Stern's Modular Pool

Content

• How does EPS influence the sustainability of modular pools?
• Pool Size and Modularity
• Ongoing Care for Your Retaining Wall’s Longevity
• Installation and Custom Layout
• Understanding Different Pool Types and Their Depth Profiles
• Accounting for Frost Heave in Foundation Design

Most models are 12 to 19 feet long, fitting easily into small yards. Create the illusion of endless water even in the tiniest backyard with a mini infinity pool. Mini lap pools prove that length matters more than width when it comes to exercise. If you’re dreaming of a pool but think you don’t have room, think again. These space-savvy ideas prove small pools can make a big splash, without taking over your whole yard.

Pool Size and Modularity

We'll explore why smooth interior walls are overwhelmingly preferable to corrugated walls, particularly from a maintenance perspective. Drilled piers are among the most prevalent in modern American construction, especially in commercial and infrastructure projects. Constructed by drilling a cylindrical hole deep into the ground and filling it with concrete and reinforcing steel, these piers can reach depths exceeding 100 feet. The high load-bearing capacity of drilled piers makes them ideal for heavy structures like office towers, bridges, and industrial facilities.

Structural engineers follow Eurocode 2 for reinforcement detailing, ensuring adequate cover to protect against corrosion. Site and Field builds and installs modular pools, its self-supporting system facilitates access and installation in complex locations. It supports water loads and provides a structural lightening of up to 2,400 kg / m3 compared to 80 kg / m3 of traditional concrete. The first container pools had corrugated walls and are still common due to their lower cost.

Installation and Custom Layout

A strip foundation can go around the entire perimeter of your container if you want, sealing the resulting crawlspace off from the outside. Or, you can two strip foundations that support the container at each of its two short ends. A strip foundation (also known as a trench foundation or a continuous footing foundation) is basically what would result if you placed a bunch of piers with footings all next to each other.

• Perhaps the most famous example of this is the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, which was built on unstable soil with a large percentage of clay.
• Once you’ve finalised the design plan, the real construction process begins with thorough prep work and excavation.
• The loads are combined using equations based on different civil engineering theories including Strength Design, Allowable Stress Design (ASD), and Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD).
• Its flexible, modular design allows you to choose the best setup for your backyard, whether it’s on level ground or uneven terrain requiring some excavation and decking.

On the corrugated walls of Modpool, these robots may not only fail to clean effectively but might have difficulty navigating the uneven terrain, resulting in incomplete cleaning. The ridges and valleys of corrugated walls complicate normal cleaning. Standard pool brushes and cleaning tools are designed to work on flat surfaces. With a corrugated pool wall like those found on Modpool, these brushes can skim over the peaks but often fail to reach down into the valleys.

Accounting for Frost Heave in Foundation Design

It’s not just about filling a hole with water; it’s about sculpting an aquatic haven tailored to your every whim. Different pool types expertly use varying depths and slopes to make your swimming experience not just good, but fantastically good! So, grab your floaties, and let’s explore how these ingenious designs work.

The fact is that it’s almost impossible to have a foundation that is too strong. But on smaller projects, the cost of a bit more form boards and extra bags of cement is less than the cost of a full geotechnical and structural analysis. Though you may not have thought of it in quite these terms, you have a decision to make. You can invest in hiring a professional to design a high-precision foundation that will take all the specific loads into account. Or, you can make some conservative assumptions, use a large factor of safety, and end up with a foundation that will probably be structurally sufficient but maybe ‘overkill’. For instance, as a rule of thumb, we like to assume that the dead loads of a container home are approximate twice the empty weight of a shipping container.