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Thanks for the information! I had heard of the chlorine loss issue so I decided against it. I think we have some very slight staining in the form of a faint stripe in a couple of areas. I will give the Jack's purple stuff a try. Do you have a salt water pool? Does the purple stuff work the same...

Hello, we recently had a rep from Wet Edge out to look at our pool. We had their primera stone finish installed last year and we have some rough spots in the pool that have developed. The rep said it is a metal / scaling issue. He used a sanding disc and sanded a step and it smoothed it out. He...

Thanks for the info. I will continue to check the levels.

So I called my pool builder about the spots and he came by today. When he was here we shut off the pump and looked at the "spots", turns out I thought there were about 6 of them but we found over 12 on the floor and the walls while he was here. He didn't have an answer for what they are. :( So...

Thanks for the replies! I will do the test as suggested with a puck and with vitamin c tabs.

Hello Everyone! So I have had the pool for about 3 months now and I feel like I am sort of getting the hang of pool care. Here are my numbers this morning for reference: Chlorine- 11.5 CH - 450 TA - 70 CYA - 70 PH - 7.5 (I added acid yesterday) Temp - 68.6 My questions are: I have to add...

Thanks for the quick reply. I have it running 14 hours right now. I will bump it up to 16 hours. Any advice on the speed it should run at? Does a higher speed make a difference to the salt cell? I will also bump the CYA back up.. At least the water loss lowered the CH! :D

I need a little more guidance. My numbers have changed a bit this morning. They are: FC - 3.5 CC - 0.5 PH - 7.2 TA - 70 CH - 425 CYA - 60 My CH and CYA dropped I think because we had 8 kids swimming on Saturday and lost a good bit of water from splashing. I had to refill for about an hour to...

I love the chili powder reference! That is so true. :D I think for now I will just keep an eye on my PH. Thanks!

I haven't updated in awhile, we have been to busy enjoying the pool! Here are a few more pics of the completed pool. I have very slowly started working on the landscape as you can see. But, the landscape still has a long way to go.. I have taken over pool care from the builder and I started a...

I don't know what cal-hypo is? I just started taking care of the pool myself. But, as best I can remember the pool builder only added, granulated chlorine(for the first 30 days), Muriatic Acid, stabilizer, and baking soda, and finally the salt. So, I am guessing my CH is from the fill water. I...

Good Morning TFP! I completed the overnight chlorine loss test and I am happy to say I did not lose any chlorine. It was 4 ppm at dark and it was 4 ppm again this morning. I have tested everything again after all the additions yesterday and here are the results: FC: 4 CC: 0.5 CH: 550 TA: 80...

Quick update. I entered all my numbers into Pool Math. I added bleach, baking soda, and i have socks of stabilizer dissolving. I followed all the suggestions for pool math. I hope this gets me to some better numbers. Question, With the salt test strips I am showing 2800 ppm, and pool math says...

Thank you for the advice! Much appreciated!

I need to go get the stabilizer. But, I like the sock idea.

SWG is Pentair IC20. I will do the Overnight test tonight..

Thanks for replying. I will grab some bleach to raise the FC. Should I add stabilizer to raise the CYA? The chart looks like I should be at 70 or 80 for salt water? Also, I tested the salt and it is 2870. I think that is a bit low also according to Pool Math..

Hi guys, So I finally have a proper kit as of today for testing my water. My pool builders final words about water quality were "take a sample to Leslie's they will tell you what it needs." :thumbdown: Here are my results from my first two tests, I did these back to back to see how close they...

Your pavers looks fantastic!! I love it! I would love to pick your brain about the plants since we are so close and have very similar pools.. I will send you a PM.

The pool builder is doing the first 30 days. Although I have been testing the water(with the test kit he left me) every day and texting the PH and chlorine to him. Then he recommends what to add or just leave it alone. I probably shouldn't have started that since he has only come by about 3...

Time for a huge update! Sorry for being absent so long, everything just got rolling and never stopped! Here is the stone complete and decking setup and ready for concrete. We got concrete the very next day and then 4 days later the plaster people showed up! Once they finished filling...

Wow! Our pools are very similar in shape! And we live very near each other, this wet summer was certainly not expected... Funny you say that about second guessing, we almost did our wall with the flagstone just like yours, but my wife saw a picture with the stacked stone and we made the switch...

Thanks Cliff, my wife actually picked out the tile. I was very undecided so I just left it to her and I think she did great as well! I just wish we could go a couple of weeks without rain so they can get some consistent work done..

Another update! It won't quit raining in North Texas!!! Ugh... The amount of rain this June and July has been insane. With that said the stone and tile guys have started three times and have only been able to work those 3 days.. Here is their work so far:

Thanks Kim. The tile looks great in the skimmers. They did a great job.

More updates! Plumbing was completed on Thursday morning (another 3 day rain delay)... Then the tile guys showed up Friday afternoon and got the water line tile installed! Then Friday night we got another round of storms, so we will slow back down for a couple of days while the ground dries out.

Hi Kim! Thanks for the compliments. Yes! We have been watering it 2-3 times a day since Friday, our pool builder asked us to do that for the next 7 days and I am all about following the rules.. haha

Here are the pics of the gunite as promised! It's so exciting to have reached this point. Gunite crew was at our house at 7am and got right to it. Luckily we have great neighbors because that machine is crazy loud! They were finished by noon. Plumbers are scheduled for Monday with electricians...

They took out about half the rebar. Pretty much everything around the collapse. Then the steel guys were able to fix the rebar that was under the excavator. The gunite was today and I will post pics soon!

Yes sir! In this instance I am great with that! We were so impressed with the skill of the guy operating the excavator. I forgot to mention that picture of the excavator was taken from my patio (to give perspective on how small our yard is verse how large that excavator was).