Recent content by mtgans

Hi all! Pool has been beautiful since build finished in October. Two days ago looked like I had a brownish yellow patch on wall section of pool. Brushed it off and Shocked the pool. Went to pool store yesterday and bought jack's magic yellow and put two 6 oz. bags in and shocked pool again...

August 19th and August 20th...deck, rebar and drains...

JTS, trying to go in order on my picture progress. I will try to get it caught up by early part of this next week to get to the plaster and water color. If I could do anything different at this point, I think I would add another water spigot behind my pool in the backyard as not to have to...

Congrats on getting your pool started, JTS! We love the size of our pool! Good luck with your build and we hope to see some pics! We just got our plaster put in yesterday and they poured the acid in today after we got the pool filled. I am trying to catch up on my picture posts here. I...

Thanks, Brushpup. I did see that one. I appreciate it, though. That was the only one I could find that had Sunstone Smoke. We are getting "plastered" on Wednesday. We decided to go with Sunstone Smoke. Hope I like it! Will post again sometime this week.

Okay. Throwing a question out there....thoughts and opinions appreciated. We had to pick our plaster color and decking color. We are going with Sunstone Smoke for the plaster and Mission Tan for the spray decking. Does anyone have either of these that could post a picture for me? I would...

August 4th - Gunite :party:

Sorry it has taken me so long to post. Things have been busy! August 2nd & 3rd - Finishing rebar for the pool and stub out of plumbing. More to follow. I promise it will be soon!

Nice tile choice!

Thanks for that info! Fantastic! Now, I will have a salt water pool. Does that affect in any way the kit that I buy? This forum great for info! I appreciate it!

A couple more dig shots... Water in the deep end... August 1st - First day of rebar! The workers started the rebar. I called my pool builder that morning to see if we could get the dozer to return to make some adjustments to the grading in the deep end. I was nervous because I stood...

Great tip on the test kit. One is included, but I don't think it's the better test kit. Seems like I read the best is maybe the 5 part test kit or something? I think the one that I am getting that is included is maybe a 4 part? I may be misremembering. I will definitely read back up on that...

I know, the process has been interesting. I, too, have looked at many of the build pictures on this forum. That is why I decided to document our own build. To answer your question, our pool will be 8'6" and we will have a diving board. I will try to post more pictures today, as we are at the...

A few more dig pictures...

End of May we started interviewing pool builders. After interviewing two different pool builders, we made our choice and signed on the dotted line on June 27th. We were told it would take a couple weeks for permits, so we were hoping to start week of July 11th. One of the builders/owners...