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Beautiful pool. Congrats! What precautions did you take the second time around to mitigate ASR?

The podcast gets into it about 13 minutes in. To summarize: Ensure the concrete supplier is providing engineered aquatic concrete. This should mean that fly ash is included. 25% grade T fly ash in needed in a shot Crete application 10% grade T fly ash in needed in a gunite application Collect...

Thanks. I've read that thread. It's mostly about people who think they have ASR, how to test it, and how to deal with it. It doesn't explain what to do if you haven't built yet and want to minimize your risk. That thread does have a podcast linked that I'm currently listening to and may touch on...

Hi folks, we are under construction with the dig done and forms being built and just learned about the nightmare of ASR happening to many pools in the Austin area. We are using a pool builder out of Round Rock. They said their gunite is mixed with ash to prevent ASR and the pool shell is...