Guide to Placing Reinforcing Bars for Pool Contractors: Principles and Practice in Shell Geometry, Clearance, Lap Splices, plus Pre-Shot Inspection

By Truman B. West

The truck is scheduled, the cage is built, and the inspector is on the way - and you already know that what gets buried under the gunite can never be fixed.

Skip a chair on the cove, run a contact splice in a shotcrete shell, or set the steel an inch too close to the dirt, and the rejection costs you days - or the buried defect costs you the whole shell.

This book takes you from a pile of stock bar to a cage that passes the pre-gunite inspection the first time, with the reasoning behind every spacing, lap, and cover dimension you'll ever set.

Here is what this book delivers:

- Beat the number-one rejection - hold earth-side and water-side cover on floors, walls, and curves with dobies and chairs, and read why ACI 318 demands more cover against earth.
- Splice for the shot - build noncontact lap splices that let the gunite encase the steel, and stop the shadowing voids that contact splices bury behind every bar.
- Size it shootable - work within the No. 5 bar ceiling for shotcrete and the clearances ACI 506.2 sets, so the nozzle reaches the back of the shell.
- Build the bond beam right - tie horizontal steel into the wall mat, turn the corners continuous, and dowel a cold joint that actually holds.
- Make the cage the bonding grid - coordinate the equipotential connection NEC 680.26 requires before the steel disappears.
- Carry the Pre-Gunite Inspection-Ready Walkthrough - one checkpoint at every element, consolidated into a master pre-shot sign-off.

Written for pool contractors, rebar crews, foremen, apprentices, and the inspectors who check their work.
Build the cage you'd stand behind - on every pool you shoot.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4RZ6R93
• ISBN13: 9798180678782
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"