Recent content by Idyllic

Our pool went in last May and we used the heater to get it up to temp, but rarely had to fire it throughout the summer. Used it from mid September until we closed the pool mid October. We opened this year almost a month ago and are still using the heater on days when we want to swim. The cover...

$56k for everything in the sig plus 4 ft' concrete surround with cantilever coping. The autocover wasn't cheap ($10.5k itself), but watching the cottonwood trees in my neighborhood shed this week has made it worth it. Spending another $6k for more patio and a new fence soon as well.

I just purchased a Dolphin Oasis Z5 from epic pool supply. Full 3 year warranty. Some one on another thread equated shopping for a pool cleaner to shopping for a mattress in the way that the different branding of near identical products occurs. I agree completely.

I am in the middle of my pool install. My electrician handled all of the wiring, but I ran a cat5e to it myself and have done most of the initial programming. I haven't experienced any connectivity issues with it so far, but I am still in the early stages of using it and waiting for salt to be...

My outdoor sound solution is part of a whole house audio system that I am installing on the cheap. Thought I would share in case it gave any ideas. In total I have 7 zones throughout the house. 6 of the zones use in ceiling dual coil stereo speakers, the seventh is a pair of outdoor speakers...

Thanks for the help, it's the answer I thought I was going to get. :-| I will definitely look into the Raypak heaters.

Our pool build will be starting in a couple of months (after the electric company moves my power line, trees are removed, and current deck is disassembled), and I look forward to starting a construction thread to cover all of that. We have decided on a fiberglass pool with SWG, cartridge filter...

My wife and I are also wrapping our heads around this same question. We are in Northeast Wisconsin. Some say that concrete is great for cold climates, while others say that fiberglass or vinyl is the way to go. There seems to be one very reputable Gunite builder in our area and everyone else...