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Awesome! I'm sold!

So after reading this thread we are sold on getting Dolphin Discover, especially since we have an older pool built before any fancy schmancy automatic cleaners were about. One lingering question I have is how is this bad boy with nuts? we have a large oak near our pool and it likes to drop...

Silver _2000 : I saw your oops video, in fact your thread is what got me started on the Aquabright journey. Yippee_Skippy: if we are in economic recovery, you could have fooled me, most of my engineering friends are either out of a job (and have been for over 6 months) or about to laid off. 5...

The first bid back was just for quartz base plaster finish...and it was more than the first pool I built by alot, and that build was only 5 years ago, in the same city.

Well it's good to know that Pool Works does good work. Just got my first bid back and lets just say the sticker shock was up there. Lets hope the others are more reasonable.

Kim thanks so much for you help, I could use it. Last time I built my pool from scratch, I designed it, and my PB added some tweaks that just put it over the top. I miss that pool. But I was also living in the house and could be on top of everything (not that I needed to until start up...that...

I'm really interested in getting an AquaBright finish for our pool remodel. The EcoFinish company sent me a list of 3 pool installers in the Houston area that are approved installers, but when I go to their websites none list the Aquabright or EcoFinish as a pool finish. So if you have used...

Kim, I'm outside both loops (610 and Beltway 8). Right now I have 2 companies coming out to give quotes, but I'd like to get at least one more.

Thank you Brian for your quick reply, do you know the names of any of the companies in Texas?

I have an older pool that's in need of a replaster job. I've been reading up on the recent Aqua Brite threads and it looks very interesting. The only thing I haven't seen clear mention of yet is UV stability of the product in high sun areas. Coming from an industrial background, I know that...

Around 6 years ago I joined this forum and began the process of learning about pools. 5 years ago I built a great pool and have loved it ever since (you guys make pool maintenance so easy) I just bought a new home (good-by my beautiful pool) and it has an ancient pool that is in need of...

Ok added 32 oz of MA to drop the ph Filled a sock with first dose of stabilizer (bought 4lbs of Ram stabilizer) put about 1/3 of it in a sock and hung it in the pool in front of a return) as soon as that one is consumed I'll fill it again. Added 2 bottles of 6% bleach 182oz to bring to above...

Well I expected to do the first 4 at about the same time. I kinda wanted to skip #5 because it's really old and it leaks and I'm little and didn't want to fight with the monster :) I was hoping to hold off cleaning the filter till the weekend so that I can con my husband into helping her do it...

So my friend has a 10k SWG pool, that no one has taken care of in weeks, so it's growing stuff (not bad but...) So I offered to get it up and running so the kids can go swimming since we are regularly hitting 95+ here. A bit of info (since it's different from my sig line cause that's my...

Yeah I have a few cal hypo tabs, maybe 5? Why would calcium rise from evaporation if I keep my water level constant, wouldn't it just leach it from the plaster? (something I thought you wanted to avoid?)

Re: Plaster Coming - trying to keep the water balanced now. Actually tested. Anyways we drained the pool to the second step (watered the front yard, believe it or not it was a long time before the water made it to the street the trees and grass were thirsty) After we got it refilled I...

I've tried searching for this answer but my google-fu is failing me. I want to create a known sample of CYA concentration. That is to say, when I mix it with the reagent then put it in the viewing tube I should get 40ppm. For a 50ml sample how much plain water (does it have to have chlorine in...

oh and I just tested the CYA. Still 120 sigh...

Ok thanks to those who have been reading my saga. I've been slowly replacing the water in my pool (using the polaris hose to water the garden) I've drained it twice to below the skimmer (so out of the 50% I need to drain I've probably replaced 12%). Anyways I'm having a "problem" with my...

Oh yeah Dang I knew there was a reason why I was more annoyed. Bah!

Technically it's not "my" pool yet since it's still under construction, so the pool builder has his guy checking on it. Now the part that burns me is that BOTH the pool builder and his guy agree that bleach is best. Pol builder was happy I was picking up a 100 kit. But his guy was using strips...

by the by, for those of you who can't wait if you skip wrapping the apple in Foil you can toss it in the microwave for 5 min on High and end up with the same result

Grr... One of the pool builder's employee came over Tuesday to acid wash the deck and start working on the "punch list" to finish up the pool. Since the pool is still "thiers" they have been maintaining it. But unfortunatly He didn't talk with the guys that started it up 10 days ago, and since...

Here is the best picture of the finished pool. IMAG0891 by Nalai Nalai, on Flickr we still have a few things left on our punch list. But otherwise they are done. Over all we are very happy.

current test results: FC 4ppm CC 0.5ppm TA 100 CA 170 CYA 60

pump is on high during the day and off at night, it's how he set it up. PB said since we used diamond brite it's much harder than normal plaster and was no problem using the polaris.

A quick question: I've been testing at around 7am before the pump turns on, and around 630-7pm right after the pump turns off at dusk. Is this the right? And after the pool is balanced when should I test? Morning, evening? I know the PH will rise due to the plaster curing over the next 6...

Yeah the builder added some cya at startup, and is using picks to get me the rest of the way (60-80). Right now he was trying to get my chlorine under control since running the chlorinator at 5 was leaving my pool at 9.5ppm of chlorine. Now we have it at a stable 3-4 in the past 24 hrs and we...

since our pool is so small 13k gallons, and in the direct Houston sun nearly 12 hrs a day we went with Oyster Quartz finish (basically white). It looks nice. took readings last night (7pm) and this morning (7am) FC - 4ppm/3ppm CC - .5ppm/5.ppm PH - 7.5/8 -> added 1/2 gallon of M-acid (I forget...

So I didn't trust the results from this morning. My Hubby took them and he doesn't swirl after each drop. (he says it shouldn't make a difference in the first 6-7 drops if you do it for the last 4-5) I don't know. So I ran the test again (and the FC one 4 times just to be sure) FC - 6ppm CC -...