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I am going to catch you up on some photos of the build. In it's current state today as I am typing, it has gunite, all tile installed, and the main water fall is 95% complete. So, these are from a few weeks back. I will get them all uploaded in order hopefully in the next day or two between...

We have done no plumbing other than the rough in. So, can I assume we still have options? Or would an auto filler needed to be plumbed ahead of time? We do have a water softener for our home. It lives in a water closet in our garage. So, it wouldn't be the end of the world to run a water...

I thought I would also update you on some other decisions we have made. Our PB does not do salt. I was bummed. So, when we popped our pool up again this past summer, we did so using pucks. No SWG. And guess what? I didn't put acid in the pool one time! I was constantly adding acid. So...

I will see what I can do to share the time lapse. They are HUGE files. It will take me a bit to figure out how I want to put them all together. So far, it is like almost an hour long. Ain't nobody got time for dat!! Here is a look at the before. You can see our janky backyard that I have...

So . . . Life happens and I didn’t get back to update. I’m not sure it is worth continuing to update. But so much has happened. After much back and forth between my husband and I and our PB, we settled on waterfalls with a 10 foot deep end. We can still jump from the rocks just not dive. We...

We are for sure going with this pool builder . . . although we haven’t signed the contract yet. I couldn’t get past the deep pool. So, my husband decided it was the right thing to shallow it up. Our teenage boy is devastated that I took away his high dive. We are still planning waterfalls but...

I forgot to address the fountains. Yes, you have to run the fountains a small amount each day to get the chlorine through it. In our mind, we would run the fountain when we swim and to maintain cleanliness. It would not run all the time. In the winter, we have to drain them and thus not have...

We have very hard water. I am assuming that is going to make my Calcium high. It tests anywhere from 13-20 hardness on any given day. We test it because we have a water softener for our home. Everyone with a pool in our area battles the hard water. So far all the builders ramble off several...

Well, we are building a pool. After years of popping up and taking down Intex pools, we figured this pool obsession isn’t going away. The bids are coming in. Slowly! We live on 10 acres and have plenty of room to do just about anything we want. Our back yard area is a complete blank slate. We...

We use the insulation sheets each year and just a plain ole tarp over them. Nothing special. The insulation sheets are the best part and make the bottom of the pool feel so nice. We have found that having the tarp over the board keeps it together. We had a few feet poke through the board...

I am not new here, but this is my first post. We set up a 8000 gallon Intex ten days ago. I was searching for some tips and tricks when I found this forum. I read and read. And then read some more. I read through post after post. I was a little nervous to pour bleach in my pool, but I just did...