Recent content by pokey

I should mention it's going to be a SWG pool. For some reason the builders in North Dallas discourage saltwater but from what everyone on here says it seems like the way to go.

We've decided to use Wet Edge Primera Stone for our pool renovation. I like the look of the Lazurite online but I'm worried it looks too artificial: Wet Edge | Products | Lazurite Also, there is literally zero evidence of this product existing anywhere online other than the Wet Edge...

We are remodeling our 1960's era pool. Right now there's a shallow end that starts at 3.5', goes to 4' and then slopes down to 8.5'. The shallow end is a little crowded - we and all our friends have 4-7 year olds - and so we originally intended on extending the shallow end and bring up the deep...

What is a cocktail cove??? That sounds like something we would definitely be interested in!! Please tell me more. I hear you all on not wanting to lose the deep end. The trouble is that the pool is shaped vaguely kidneyish with the three stairs down in a little offshoot area and then a...

We bought a new house in May of last year and moved from a sport pool we loved - rectangular and four feet deep on the sides and five feet deep in the middle - to a giant kidneyish shaped 70’s diving pool with a very small shallow end and a huge drop off to a large 8 foot deep end. We’re...

I am in Dallas as well and *also* have a mysterious undiagnosable leak that I have spent thousands of dollars trying to nail down. I actually had my entire pool replastered which I think helped, but I still have tons of bubbles in my return and my pump never maintains full pressure - it fills up...

Ok, but isn't it true that you can't put a liner over stairs? And I'd have to replace all the skimmers, inlets, drains, etc.? Am I working off old tapes? If vinyl liners solve the cracking problem (and apparently resist algae better) why isn't everyone on the vinyl pool bandwagon?

I hadn't thought of that. Seems like putting a vinyl liner in a concrete pool has plusses and minuses but it definitely is something I should look into. What about putting in a fiberglass liner? That seems like it might be a better solution?

Hello- I bought our house, complete with a gunite pool, five years ago and I have always had problems with the pool which I knew were caused by leaks somewhere in the system. In the last year, though, when the weather was warm (which was a lot of the time) the autofill ran constantly and our...

I should add that I poured the chlorine in at 9:15 pm.

OK, so I'm losing about an inch of water a day in sunny Dallas, Texas. This may be a leak and it may be evaporation. I do have bubbles in one of my returns and in the pump basket so I'm thinking there's a crack in a skimmer throat. Regardless, I let my pool go to seed while I fooled around...

...which may or may not be related. They are as follows: 1. My pool appears to be losing about two inches of water a day. Admittedly, its gets 15 hours of 110 degree sun in Dallas, Texas so perhaps it's due to evaporation, but it seems like a lot. It never used to lose this much in the...

I have a similar problem - My CYA was at 50 and then I didn't test CYA for a few months and now I clearly am at zero. So I put 4 pounds in a tube sock and put it in the skimmer and will leave the system running 24 hours as directed. But how long do I leave the sock in? Do I take it out after 24...