Installing a pool or hot tub is, in a way, a sort of control over the natural world. Hot tubs and pools provide a sanitary option to the rare, but naturally occurring hot springs and swimming holes of days gone by. How one chooses to exert his or her control is up to the individual. Whether you engineer a highly stylized project that echoes the architectural bathhouses of ancient Rome, or create a natural backyard environment where the pool exists as an unobtrusive addition, is a matter of personal taste. Whatever your goal, the first step is to determine your personal needs and the scale of the project.
Pools can serve many different purposes and it helps if they are built with specific ones in mind.
A family with a college-age daughter training for her university swim team will benefit from a different pool than a retired couple who enjoys relaxing poolside and entertaining the grandkids on weekends. Hot tubs serve a number of different purposes as well. The heated water and massaging jets help to shrink swollen tissues and relieve the pain associated with arthritis, a bad back, or a hip or knee replacement. Other than therapy, customers often long for a relaxing soak at the end of long day. Or maybe you intend to use a hot tub primarily when entertaining guests.