Paulette

Our pool pump has been exposed to the elements since we installed the pool in 1991.  That’s 13 years in the sun, snow, wind & rain.  It still works.

Now that we have a nice base to put it on we decided to give it a home.  We like to refer to it as The Dog House.  Not that we own a dog or that anyone has ever been sent out to it but the threat is there…

I’m not sure why we had yellow Caution tape but it worked great to map out the dimensions we needed to store all our gear in winter and have room in summer to change in.

We looked at buying a kit but found they weren’t as sturdy as we wanted.  They tended to use 1 X 3 instead of 2 X 4 so we made our own plan.  I designed it and Dave built it.

I decided to stain the boards before it was completely assembled.  It gave better coverage and I hoped it would help preserve the wood.  Luckily we could match the stain used on the fence.

That’s a pretty nice dog house.