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    West Edge Primera Stone Color - Anyone ever used Lazurite? What colors do people like?

    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...
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    Skirting the 3:1 slope requirement

    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...
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    Adding a tanning ledge in the deep end: is this a thing?

    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...
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    Pier Pressure: How to Stabilize A Heavily Cracked East Dallas Pool

    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...
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    Green Swamp with Dreams of Sparkling Oasis - help!

    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...
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    I'm having some problems...

    ...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...
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    BBB for months - sudden CYA drop

    Hello. I've been on the BBB train for a few months now. I bought the FAS-DPD test and have been keeping the pool at around 7 FC since my CA was around 60 since i previously used the chlorine pucks. The CA has been at 60 for months. My pool's been looking great but the attached hot tub that...
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    Starting BBB Method - My Initial FAS-DPD Test Results

    I recently purchased a house with a gunite pool and had been struggling with algae. At the suggestion of everyone on these boards, I went out and got the Leslie's FAS-DPD test kit. My first results are as follows: FC - 18 ppm CC - .2 ppm pH - 7.3 TA - 95 ppm CYA - 55 ppm CH - 280 ppm I have a...
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    Still green algae - chlorine off the charts - algaecide?

    Hello. I am new to these boards as I have just purchased a house with a pool but I have been reading through Pool School and trying to get on top of things. I have a 20,000 gallon in-ground pool/spa with a main drain and two skimmers and then a fountain return in the spa and a couple of return...