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$6000 for this project sounds unbelievably low to me!!! I'm doing a similar thing (changing a 9ft deep pool to 4.5 ft), and my quote is over $50K. It includes new tile around the edge, installation of a Baja ledge, shallowing the pool, and new gunite everywhere. I had another quote for $125K...

Thanks! What you said about depth makes a lot of sense. My husband and pool builder were both leaning toward 6 ft (at the deepest end, not for most of the pool) so I was compromising at 5 or 5 1/2'. But after reading your reply, and thinking about it more, even 5' is too deep to hold my...

The house we moved into a couple years ago has a 20ish year old gunite pool, 20x40, 9 feet at deep end. We been getting quotes to make the pool shallower (water depth of 5 or 5 1/2 feet at the deepest), add a Baja ledge, and new coating and tile. The PB we are leaning toward has a lot of...

So, regarding my high calcium (1000), do you think it would be worth trying a calcium reducer (some brand of sodium hexametaphosphate, or even Calgon laundry additive) before draining and refilling? I got a quote of $850 for draining/refilling, which I thought was really high, then I found out...

My controller is a CAT 2000, and if I'm looking at the right thing, it's going to cost $400 to replace these 2 probes! Does that sound right? Also, JasonLion, you suggested I not even use the ORP sensor, but, if I'm understanding my system correctly, I then could not use the automatic chemical...

I've been reading on this site for several days, and I have noticed that ORP meters do not seem to be thought of highly here. Why is that? I mentioned this to my husband (mech. engineer and Director of Operations for an oil corp), and he said refineries always use ORP to monitor chlorine, and...

We moved to Texas 2 weeks ago. The house we bought has a pool (built in 2010) that is supposedly very easy to maintain. It monitors the water and adds chemicals as needed, has a Polaris 3900 cleaner. Water and pool surfaces look clean. This is our first experience owning a pool, so we don't...