Recent content by Swoop

Did you FTC them for at least an hour after you pulled them off the smoker? If not try it next time. Oh and FTC stands for Foil, Towel, Cooler. Wrap them puppies in tin foil, then in a towel then drop em in a cooler for at least an hour. Makes em even more tender. :) Also if your butts...

Some new pics showing our current progress. First part of deck work is done. Still have a larger lower level deck to build that will connect the deck in this picture to our back porch. And of course still have railings and stairs to put in but waiting till next part of deck is done. My...

So I have ordered a better pump and filter setup for our pool. Pentair SD60 to be exact. Since I will have a much better pump I was thinking of doing a few things below. Intially I was contemplating replacing the overthewall skimmer with an inwall skimmer, however the idea of cutting the liner...

As promised here are some wider shots people asked for. Please ignore the messy work site. :cry: For reference purposes the deck is 16' x 16'

Yep 26 legs.

Knock on wood, no leaks so far. Knocking on wood twice just to be safe. :wink:

I wanted the biggest one they had at WalMart, the 26 was it. If they had a 30 I would have gotten it, thats how I made my decision. :-D

I'll get some wider shots tomorrow.

Re: New Intex 26' Ultra Frame Owner (Updated with pics) Well as promised here are some pics. After I filled the pool I added enough bleach to get the FC to 5ppm. Then after 24 hours I turned the SWG on. So far so good. Thank goodness I have one of these in my garage. Came in...

As the title says wife and I are now the proud owners of a new Intex 26' Ultra Frame. I also purchased the Intex SWG system as well. As of right now the pool is filled after 20 plus hours of removing and grading and leveling dirt. Then many hours of filling it only to realize the wrinkles in...

Thanks, that would work if I wanted to invest the time into learning it and I just my try it for a month or two. However would I then need to take the plans I came up with to an engineer to get the plans done for the rebar placement for the shell?

So my wife and I are slowly moving in the direction of building an IG pool. Since we were owner/builders on our house we are considering being owner/builders on our pool project. However we are in need of a designer who can take what we have sketched on paper and turn it into actual plans and...