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Still looking for an answer about Intellichlor, but here are some photos with lights and landscape now that almost everything is done (still need to put in fire bowl in back area behind where loungers are):

The pool has been up and running for a month and a half now, but I have yet to replace the dummy with the actual intellichlor unit. Any thoughts on doing this at this time of year? Living in Vegas, we don't completely shut the pool down for the winter, but just not sure if we should wait...

The deck finish is just a light gray spray deck--no brand name that I'm aware of. The bubbler is a pentair Colorcascade LED. I'll try and get some pics of it at night. I think it's worth it so far. I had a bubbler before without a light and this adds a lot. One thing I'll not is that since...

After nearly 10 days of 110 degree plus weather, we finally got into the pool. There is still a little bit of plaster dust on the floor, but the ph was good and we were ready. Let's just say that it was that much better when I got having been an owner-builder. I still need to bolt down the...

Any progress?

Well done!

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada The pool is now filled and all systems are go (well, almost all systems). It took a total of 40 hours to fill the pool which coincided with a 2:30 a.m. changing of the hose to the spa under the light of the big full moon. I reduced the flow on the...

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada For those of you interested in what something like this costs, the builder I went to originally quoted me a total of $65,500 for most of what I ended up building. Our finished product has a few upgrades and additional items, and we haven't finished...

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Progress pics at 22 hours and 32 hours of filling:

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada You could fit 6, but it depends on how close everyone is. It would be more comfortable with 4 for sure.

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Here's the progress after almost 7 hours of water.

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Plaster is done and we're filling the pool!

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Plaster company came and pressure washed the gunnite today. Plaster goes in tomorrow morning. We're doing pebble fina grigio, so it requires an acid startup to expose the sparkling bits of aggregate in the plaster. It was a pain in the butt on...

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Things slowed down a little bit again because of the weather (wind, heat, and some rain) and a vacation, but we're nearing the finish line. Just passed my pre-plaster inspection this morning. Here to get the pre-plaster you have to have a pool...

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Yesterday they started pouring the deck. Because of the extreme heat we've been having, this deck process has gone much slower than I anticipated. They poured half the deck yesterday and started the other half today. Then it will cure for a week...

Do you have a specific basketball hoop you plan on using because I think they tend to be bigger/wider than what would fit the normal umbrella sleeve? The umbrella sleeves are usually good for volleyball standards too though--really just depends on the size of the pole.

Well done. Looks great!

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Tile went in yesterday.

Welcome to the club! One thing I would point out to think about would be the spa spillway. We had that on our last pool and pigeons started using it as easy access to a watering hole. The pool we're building now has a spillway, but it will be covered so that it's not so easy for birds to get...

We had pebble fina on our last pool and are doing it again on this one. Yes, it looks a lot like regular plaster, but it has the aggregate crushed up in it and what you can't see from photos on the web is that some of the aggregate has quartz and stuff that sparkles in the sun. It's smooth and...

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Oh yeah. Bright and early this morning I was out spraying it down. Then I set up soaker hose around the edges on a timer so it will get some water throughout the day.

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We're in the process of building our second pool and are once again going with the sport pool--3'6"-5'0"-4'0'. We play both volley ball and basketball in it and it is a good height for everyone to get wet and have fun, but still be able to dunk or spike. I also use part of it for a swim lane...

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada It's gunnite day! You can sort of see in the background that I put the slide together over the weekend.

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada We passed the first inspection! Now on to gunnite. Here are photos of the electrical (they came back this morning to run conduit for the wet deck led bubbler):

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Here's an update: plumbing, steel, and rough electrical are done. Inspector is supposed to stop by today. (These two photos were pre-electric.)

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada Thanks for the diagram and the specifics about the salt cell. Good stuff to know.

Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada I'm no plumber, but what you say seems to check out and makes sense with my understanding of how this works. Can anyone tell me where the salt water chlorine generator cell goes in all of this? I've never seen one before and can't tell if they did it.

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Re: Another O/B in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada After some delays for getting the soils report, structural drawings, and full permit, as well as an issue with the plumbing supplier being out for a week, things are finally moving again. Plumbing is happening as I type this. Already had one...