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After just 5 years we are replacing our Texas Leuderstone on our saltwater pool with 5cm travertine coping. Between the big Texas freeze a couple years ago, other weather and the saltwater, the limestone and some of our stacked stone had deteriorated significantly. My question is does anyone...

Yeah - haven't had any problems with it.

Thanks Jim - it was actually 3.6 when I had it tested this weekend. But thanks for the advise. I didn't realize that it needed to be higher with the CYA being higher too. I found the table on this site after reading your note (Chlorine / CYA Chart - Trouble Free Pool) - sounds like I should...

Yup - no issues with it

Hi Jim - funny answer to that. I've got some type of critter(s) coming into my backyard almost every night. They drive my dog crazy, and they've started to pop my skimmer baskets off to get to the crickets that were collecting. Rather than have to fix the lids every night my wife put the rock...

Thanks for the reply. If I'm reading your link correctly, I think it's confirming my theory. Salt water (from the pool) is splashing up from inside the skimmer to the underside of the leuderstone, it's soaking through the stone to the surface, and when the water evaporates at the surface the...

Hi - newbie here. Installed a new saltwater pool pool in our Austin, Texas home this summer. Have everything balanced - salt is ~3200 and most all has been good. We (after debating heavily) used Leuderstone for the coping, as it seems deterioration from salt would take a long time. Have not...