I have been in the pool business for almost thirty years. The last fourteen years I have been installing fiberglass pools. The mindset in the beginning was to put in pools as fast as you could and as many as you could. In the last seven to eight years people have gotten away from just pools to backyard paradises. In the beginning no one was doing much custom work with fiberglass pools. Since now fiberglass being the best pool you can install for longivity and ease of maintenance, we have adapted other ways to customize these pools. Negative edge and spillover pools can be installed using fiberglass pools. Obviously there are certain types of yards that need to be used for these installations to the get the best result of the negative edge or spillover effect. These are not the type of installs that you will do in volumn, but are the type that make you proud of the work and imagination involved to create them. This also allows you to get into the yards of some of those that were before restricted to only gunite pools.
As far as the flow and catch basin sizes on these pools there is a lot of information available to use when making this type of install. We install fiberglass pools manufactured by Leisure Pools out of Texas. We have been able to talk with the manufactures to produce a pool that is built to our specifications on projects such as these.
The bottom line is fiberglass can be used in negative edge/spillover applications. Not only does the customer have cutting edge designs but pools that are the easiest to maintain hands down.
Thanks,
Lynn Bush