After mowing the grass, I hooked up a second hose. I didn't want to be up all night waiting for the pool to fill. It's starting to look great. It did take a full 48 hours, but we are finally to the water line.
New Owner Build in FL near Orlando
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Your pool looks great! If you get a chance, can you message me your subs? We did our own build in 2015/2016 and we're getting ready to move. I have my old list, but, I know one of the major contributors is out of commission. Such an accomplishment, congrats!
The interior company came back today to start up the equipment and add a bunch of chemicals. They installed the eyeballs into the returns and the vac lock. They poured in 4 gallons of acid, put two chlorine tabs and some CYA in the skimmer basket and turned the pump on. It needs to run for three days straight and the guy will be back Thursday to check the levels and make any adjustments. Now I am on brush duty!That plaster color looks SO good! Get to brush and balancing the water!
Kim
Sounds like they are doing a "hot start" to the plaster. That is one of the good ones! Do not go swimming yet as the pH will be all out of wack.
spd500
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Beautiful water color!! Did it seem to fill faster with both hoses? I have one on each side of the house, but someone else said it didn't seem to matter because of limitations from their water meter.
Yes, I felt like it filled faster. Pressure here is not the problem, but the pex lines they installed in the house are limiting the flow volume. I think we have 0.5 inch lines, but I would have to double check. Both hoses were fully flowing so there was no pressure loss.
- Jun 26, 2015
- 478
- Pool Size
- 7600
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-30 Plus
It looks so pretty! I LOVE YOUR DECK! so I might have missed some posts, but curious, is this in your front yard? When your neighbors pull up will they see you lounging in your pool or is a fence down? Also, I see you are in Florida and I know you have a lot more bugs and heat than we do, but when you put up the screened enclosure does it block out all the UV rays, like if you wanted to sun or anything?
Exciting! Can we see how that one intellibrite looks in the pool at night? I'm trying to decide between 1 intellibrite VS 2 microbrite.
Thank you.
This is my backyard. The fence is coming next. I'm a corner lot, so the house behind us is the side of their house so I can see their driveway. That should be taken care of by the privacy fence. The screen enclosure does not block out all the UV rays. I can verify you will still get burned without an umbrella or some sunblock. It does block out some UV rays and I have not had any issues with the pavers heating up.
I will grab a picture tomorrow night and post how the light looks.
what is the name of the pavers you used?
Interior company came back this evening to check on the pool. They checked on the water chemistry and the ph was still low from the acid and the chlorine was back to near zero. Tomorrow he will bring the chlorine up to where is needs to be. They checked this rust spot that developed out of nowhere. After investigation there was some type of metal wire that got mixed into the plaster and then rusted. The guy dove down to the depths and scraped it out of the plaster. No one knows how it got there or where it came from. It looks much better now, but he needs to come back tomorrow to apply a patch to the area he had to dig up. He also set up my easytouch with the pump, light, and actuator for the deck jets. He even vacuumed out the pile of Crud i have been brushing towards the main drain since I don't have a vacuum yet. He was happy with how everything looked. I need to mess around with setting the variable speeds tomorrow since I can't take anymore mosquito or ant bites at the moment. Will work on that during daylight hours. After tomorrows visit, I will get one final visit in 3 weeks to add the salt and hook up the intellichlor to the system. He supplied me with a playbook of issues that can pop up with the plaster and the remedies. Also how to manage the chemical levels for the first 30 days and after. He also mentioned I can email him my test results and he will let me know if he sees anything that I need to correct.
They were called Ice. I'm not sure where they came from, but I got them from Paver Depot in Orlando.
Today the interior finish guy came back to patch yesterday's wire removal. He talked to his boss and they think the wire probably came from the suppliers screen when they sift the rocks. They reported it to the supplier but chances are the bag has been around a while and the screen has been fixed. They added a bag of shock to the pool to get the chlorine up since it was at zero yesterday. The patch was added and one other spot was pumice stoned to bring the pebbles out from the plaster. He told us to wait an hour for the patch to cure and we got the go ahead for some pool action. We got two hours of swimming in before the lightning alarms went off and the rain moved in. As requested here are the pictures of the intellibrite. It is enough to see where you are going and the steps in the pool. I have seen other pools with many smaller lights that can light up a city block. It all depends what you are looking for. I am happy with our light as it doesn't blind me while swimming or sitting directly in front of it. I flipped through all the colors and blue, green, and white are the brightest. Blue is our favorite. Magenta is ok. Red just doesn't light it up well enough and that is why astronomers use red light. LOL
Thanks for the pictures.
Our pool will be smaller about 28x14, but our deep end about 5 ft will be opposite the shelf, not a sports pool.
Is your intellibrite centered in the swimming area or centered in the entire pool including shelf?
Our PB recommends to place it on the deep end to shine longways, but it would shine to a sitting area and sun shelf.
Also, which automation did you end up going with and how did you set it up?
Your thread has been very helpful. Thank you.
The light is centered in the swimming area right on the deepest part. It is 15 ft from the far end of the pool and 20 ft from the shelf side.
I think most lights are in the deep end and shine towards the shallow end, but I am no expert on it. Someone told me to put it where it doesn't shine in the house when you look outside.
All my equipment is in my signature, but we got the EasyTouch Auto 520543 & 522104. An electrician wired it up and I have been setting it up a little at a time. I did the light set up reading online instructions. The interior finish guy set up the pump and the actuators on the valves. He will also set up the IC40 when he comes back in 3 weeks to do the salt. There are a lot of videos online and the Pentair website has the manuals for setting the automation up.
Today's news and notes...
I purchased a 3 piece 12 ft telescoping pole to brush the pool with. And now I have returned it for a 2 piece 16 ft pole. The 12 ft pole just wasn't long enough to reach everywhere and didn't feel too sturdy when maxed out. The new pole worked much better and I was able to reach all areas of the pool. I discussed the different brush heads available with the plaster company and they don't recommend the stainless steel brushes anymore. Apparently the quality of the stainless steel has gone down over the years and they have seen pieces of the steel come loose and then rust in the pool. A stiff nylon brush is what they recommend now, so lucky for me that is what I had bought.
I took the water in for it's first "professional" test since I need to document it once a week for the first few months for the plaster warranty. pH was high at 8.5, but what caught me by surprise was a high phosphate level of 349 ppb. I didn't see that as something to check in the plaster notebook or on TFP levels. I text my plaster company from the store and they said that is not normal for a new pool, but to buy the phosphate remover. So I had to blow 50 or 60 bucks on this phosphate remover as I was not prepared to handle it. Anyone have comments on phosphates?
Also, they didn't check the water for sequestrant levels which is on the list from the plaster company to maintain. They measured copper and iron in the water, but I don't know how to equate that to sequestrant level. Do I need to buy some type of sequestrant test?
Tomorrow my goal is to get the deck jet nozzles installed!
I purchased a 3 piece 12 ft telescoping pole to brush the pool with. And now I have returned it for a 2 piece 16 ft pole. The 12 ft pole just wasn't long enough to reach everywhere and didn't feel too sturdy when maxed out. The new pole worked much better and I was able to reach all areas of the pool. I discussed the different brush heads available with the plaster company and they don't recommend the stainless steel brushes anymore. Apparently the quality of the stainless steel has gone down over the years and they have seen pieces of the steel come loose and then rust in the pool. A stiff nylon brush is what they recommend now, so lucky for me that is what I had bought.
I took the water in for it's first "professional" test since I need to document it once a week for the first few months for the plaster warranty. pH was high at 8.5, but what caught me by surprise was a high phosphate level of 349 ppb. I didn't see that as something to check in the plaster notebook or on TFP levels. I text my plaster company from the store and they said that is not normal for a new pool, but to buy the phosphate remover. So I had to blow 50 or 60 bucks on this phosphate remover as I was not prepared to handle it. Anyone have comments on phosphates?
Also, they didn't check the water for sequestrant levels which is on the list from the plaster company to maintain. They measured copper and iron in the water, but I don't know how to equate that to sequestrant level. Do I need to buy some type of sequestrant test?
Tomorrow my goal is to get the deck jet nozzles installed!
Deck Jets installed. Now I need to set the stop on the actuator so it doesn't try to shut off my returns when I turn the deck jets on.
We don't worry about them. If you maintain proper FC/CYA levels you will not get algae.
There is not one that I know of. I think you would have to keep track of how much was put in the water by having/keeping the bottles?? Not sure about this one at all-sorry