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    Refurb 2005 pool outside of Dallas, plaster, tile, New LEDs, new sheers.

    Looking good, but more daytime pictures (because I think I am the only person in the world who doesn't like colored pool lights).
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    Owner/builder SoCal

    You guys need your own TV show, the next logical step after your blog. BLOG Hambels Get Real
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    Vegas OB! Just got plans back and need some feedback (pics included :) )

    BB is bond beam? BTW good choice on the travertine; I spent a summer with travertine coping samples out by our pool and they have a special geological property (along with limestone) that makes them significantly cooler than other materials, crucial when it's 100! OK, let's get your color...
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    Pool Contractor - Nightmare Turns to Happy Ending

    Not my pool/not my contractors: Update: New Pool for Couple Abandoned by Contractor | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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    Need outdoor curtain recommendations, please

    I used these drop cloths from Home Depot in the past. And my husband used some type of plumbing pipe to make my outdoor curtain rod on our porch. They worked well, but they do fade/fray and need to be replaced each season. Plus: then you can then reuse them as drop cloths. If they are in a...
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    HELP: Pebble sheen aqua blue in the Bay area

    This is how I picked French Gray pebble sheen without ever seeing it in a pool before. This is probably backwards from what most people do. FIRST, I looked at all the pebble colors in the PebbleSheen sample, online and in the store. Did I like all of the individual pebbles in the sample? Did...
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    Help with Waterline Tile and Pebble Tec! Newbie!

    We also used the NPT Arctic Ice 1x2 but in the Lagoon color (gray thinset and light pewter grout), with buff limestone eased edge coping and French Gray pebblesheen with Shimmering Seas shells added. We wanted the waterline tile to blend with the surface. Photos really don't capture how...
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    Hiding Pool Equipment Need Suggestions

    Ours is behind a brick wall topped with a board on board cedar fence.
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    How many lights do I need? And other planning questions

    We just have one light in pool and one in spa, but they aren't LED.