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My pool gets direct sunlight all day and I basically go through 3-4 ppm a day with a CYA between 40-50. This sun is eating chlorine!

Suz... Just a heads up on bleach. Kroger is running a 2.99 sale for their brand bleach and its 8.25%. You need their discount card. I bought a ton this week.

Suz: Did I see a bunch of plumbago in your plant deliveries? MY wife LOVES the plumbagos. I think we ended up with about 13 of them lol

Suz don't worry the green will be gone once the water starts circulating. Mine was super green on first fill up. Everything looks beautiful!

Pop the champagne Suz!!!

There could be a betting pool that you dont know about! :)

I missed the vote...I was just hoping for plaster today! I vote Diamond as well Suz.

Today has to be the day!

I just added borates this weekend to my pool and had a quick question (maybe a dumb one). Do we continue to use the CYA/FC level recommendations even with 30-50 ppm borates? I assume the answer is yes, and that the borates my decrease the rate of consumption, but the range still needs to remain...

That FC level will be fine once you get your CYA up. During a sunny day your FC will get eaten alive with no CYA. If you tested in the evening yesterday with your FC at 1, and this morning before alot of sunlight, it would make perfect sense for your FC to go from 1 to 4. With your pump running...

Are you running your pump at night? I use the quick test just to see if my FC is in the ballpark. The larger test with the power is more accurate. I am surprised with the tabs your CYA hasnt started to go up. I wouldnt be too concerned with FC of 4 vs 5 on the "quick vs large" test.

Our overflow pipe was put in before gunite as the pipe is secured in the gunite. Hope they have another option. I'll be curious to see what their solution is.

What color did you go with? Blue granite?

Muffin- Tahoe blue sheen isn't advertised but is available if you use modern method gunite as the applicator. Not sure if you have that ability. Blue granite and Tahoe blue were our finalists. I don't think you can go wrong with either. Thanks for the kind words on my picture Suz and Wendy!

We went with Tahoe blue pebble sheen. It's new for our applicator in Houston. I love it because it's darker with clouds and at dusk but a nice blue with the sun. It was green at startup but haven't noticed any green hue to it since.

No one likes Tahoe Blue pebble sheen but me :(

Beens: Could you float a gunite pool? Is that possible?

Thank you all for the responses. It was an additional $70 for me to fill my pool on my water bill last month. Didnt take into account different costs for filling methods.

This may be a dumb question, but I have thought of it frequently during these SLAM threads. Wouldnt it be more cost effective to just drain the pool and re fill rather than going through 50+ jugs of bleach? For the record, I am also not suggesting this be done, I am just curious and would like...

Wendy, I checked up with Suz, but wanted to check in with you as well to see how everything was after last night's debacle of storms. I hope you and your build are okay.

Suz....How did you fare after the storms last night? I was outside at 11:30 PM checking on my drainage worried to death. Thankfully my drainage performed exactly as it should and I had no issues. I texted my sales guy and said "well my pool passed the drainage test" lol. I hope everyone was okay...

What is everyone in Texas losing mid summer? I have alot of direct sunlight and losing 3 PPM a day is going to require a TON of bleach.

Is the final payment 10% of your contract?

That's the overflow drain

I'll email you some new photos here this weekend. We couldn't be happier with how it turned out. The test kid scared me when I first got it too. But the instructions and color coding make it so simple. Use the speed stir so you don't have to manually shake. It was the best thing I bought. You...

You guys are cracking me up in this thread. I haven't been very vocal but I am still lurking :) I can't wait till everyone is done. Just a warning though; if you all are like me you will become obsessive with your testing. It's addicting and fun (I know it's weird lol)

Well at least you don't have to water your gunite

rborn: any update to this? I thought about you and your build today and wanted to check in to see if there is any update.

It was not an upgrade from blue granite from us. We absolutely love it.