Recent content by AMLCpoolgal

We got our first quote on our potential build this week and I was less than impressed. The builder was nice enough, I showed him some photos of what we wanted and we talked in detail about everything (attached is what I drew to show him our idea). A few days later I get a rendering photo and a...

thanks for the input! We plan to stay in this house for quite some time. Houses with pools in my area tend to sell much faster than houses without them. Would a 15x28 pool still be seen as a small pool? I'm not really sure what the average size is. As far as fiberglass goes it appears to not be...

We built our house about 2 years ago and are finally ready to take the plunge and get an inground pool put in. We have our first builder coming next week to take a look at my property and then email us a quote/etc. I wanted to get some advice on a few things. #1: we have a large yard (see...

There are 2 we're looking at, one is 16' x 48" round (5100 gals @ 90%) and the other is 18' x 9' x 48" rectangular (3100 gals @ 90%). I'm all for adding a sand filter and just realized that if we go with the rectangular one it comes with a sand filter. If we go with the cheaper round one we'll...

Every few years we usually get a new Intex brand pool (the pumps go out) but I'm having issues finding one over 40" this year. We were looking at a 48" Coleman metal frame pools, is this a reputable brand? I know the differences between a side skimmer and the ground pump but which works better...

We have a metal frame with vinyl liner 12'x3' (approx 2900 gal) above ground seasonal pool that we bought brand new in June, after struggling with cloudy water almost immediately (even with proper chlorine levels, shocking weekly, and algaecide) we finally lost the battle with our pool and...