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Chris...not sure what area of the country you're in, but I'm in Michigan. My skimmer has 2 holes in-line with the water flowing into the skimmer. It sort of looks like this: O O <-------Water flowing into skimmer. The first one (on the left) is plumbed to the equipment, the other one is...

Hi Jason, Will you add our version of paradise to the slideshow? Thanks!

Okay, please no comments from the peanut gallery. I whipped this out in about 5 minutes when the boss wasn't looking. It's obviously not to scale, and looks like my 4 year old drew it. I swear I've been legally able to vote for more than 20 years. :-D You could obviously add more planting...

Not now. I must confess that the next size up for us would have been an 18x43x28. At the time I remember trying to talk the DW into it, complete with Tim "the toolman" Taylor grunts. Now that the pool is built I have no regrets. There's plenty of room for people, and if I take my time...

For what it's worth, we have a 16x41x24 L-shape pool with 2 lights. I can't imagine the pool with a single fixture, I think it would be insufficient.

Re: Ready to purchase inground pool which filter is best De/ Here is a link to articles that I found useful regarding the 3 types of filtration when I was doing some research a couple of years back. http://www.poolcenter.com/filter.htm We went with D.E. and have been happy so far. I don't...

The countertop is constructed of a marine plywood base, tiled with some economical glass tiles we found at Menard's, grouted white, and then trimmed (edge band) in Poplar 1x and painted out with an exterior grade white latex paint. The doors' base material is plywood, and the exterior is...

Ouch. Yeah, it's been a pretty mild winter for us this year. I'm not complaining...but even if it were just a dusting it's still snow and that means no pool. :cry: What were my ancestors thinking, settling in Michigan? Dagnabbit!

Here's the view off the back of our place in West MI. this morning.

Does anyone on here have concerns using SWG with galvanized steel walls? We have a structural polymer wall system and so I've never given it any thought myself.

We love our true-L pool. Our equipment set-up is very similar to yours with the exception that our heater is 400,000 BTUs on a smaller pool. I'm not an expert by any means, and it may be that ours is overkill, but I think I'd want to ask about that. I'm sure there are a lot of people on this...

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