Recent content by anderson110

It's a plaster pool with a saltwater generator. pH 7.2 Cl 1.5 ppm (these two change every few days, I add acid and bleach regularly to supplement the SWG during hot periods or extra swimmer load) TA 70 CH is always a strange test for me, it never "turns blue" but the precipitation gets a bit...

My pool is about 18 months old now, and is forming white spots that are concerning me. I have done some research on this, but there seem to be several possible causes so I'm looking for more experienced advice on how to combat this issue before it gets worse, and hopefully reverse it.

I'm in the central valley CA. Nighttime temps are still dipping into the 50's, so maybe it would be a waste. Hitting 75 during the day which makes it seem summer like!

I have an in-ground pool with spa and gas heater and an automatic cover, about 10k gallons. In the spring, the weather warms up, then it seems to take the water forever to 'catch up' to the current weather. Is there any merit to the idea that a one-time heating of the pool could be beneficial...

Unfortunately, my young kids threw some mud into the spa, I didn't notice it for a good two weeks, and the mud has really worked its way into the plaster. I have brushed at it a lot, I even scrubbed at it a bit with some pumice stone, and the mud stains are very deeply set. It's almost like...

Great, thanks for your advice. I got the pool down to the bottom of the range yesterday and I'll keep after it every day for awhile.

My plaster pool was completed in Nov 2014. Since then, it has been consuming a lot of acid. I was told this would be the case initially, but it does not seem to be slowing down much. It is a saltwater pool that is covered most of the time. I just tested and got: TA 130 (too high?) FC 5.5 CC...

We decided to just live with it. The PB claimed he could tweak it with a "pool restart" in two weeks if we weren't satisfied with the color, but I think he's just buying time for us to calm down and accept it as-is. The color is deepening a bit as it cures. It is still much lighter than we...

I am having a new pool installed and a disaster has struck. We requested a "midnight blue" color and our PB used "tahoe blue" instead today. This might not be a huge problem except that it seems much lighter than the "tahoe blue" sample, and a very big difference from the "midnight blue" we...

So we're getting an autocover with our new pool build. We had picked out tile and coping, and today the tile guys were installing tile, and our GC brought over a couple of the travertine coping samples so we could decide which one we like best. After the GC left, the tile guys tell me that...

My gunite was shot yesterday. When I went out to water it this morning, I saw some cracks. I'm not sure if they're significant or not. This is the largest one, it's about 2' long in the deep end. Any advice welcome.

The gunite guys fixed it. My only problem now is that I am having buyer's remorse that I built the pool too small to try to have some yard left. The pool is 15'x30', but I also got a spa in the pool, which really cut into the size of it in a way I didn't really anticipate. :(

At the very least I'm gonna be right there in their business when the gunite crew arrives to talk it over with them. I can tell my builder is annoyed that I'm questioning him, but he'll just have to deal with it.

I met with the pool builder today and he said it is just roughed in and that the gunite guys will fix it. I felt better at the time, but now with these responses I'm worried again.