Recent content by nabeel76

We had quite a few PB's come out and look at what we were doing. The majority didn't give us more than a verbal "what are you looking for, how about this, or that" type of design guidance and then pretty much used the verbally agreed upon size and details to give an estimate of what it would...

Thanks for the great advice! I will ensure the PB puts the SWG (Intellicenter i5ps w/ SWG) before the 3-way valve, hopefully they already know and are planning to do this but I'll keep them honest. I didn't realize that you can't or that it's not recommended to use the heater when the water...

Thanks, yeah we think that design will look good in our space but time will tell... It would be nice to have a sep system but as you've posted it'll probably add another 5K+ to our build and at this point we're trying to limit costs as much as possible to save money for landscaping...

Yeah it's shared and sounds like that's not a problem. The pool is detached from the spa so spillover is not a possibility w/ our setup so we'll have to deal with maintaining the chemicals across the separate bodies of water in our case, hopefully that won't be too challenging.

Yeah, I noticed that as well and the PB mentioned that there will be 3 sides of the spa that will be elevated. Hard to see from that drawing but if you look at the 3D design of the original scheme the decking will still be the same in the new scheme. From that you can see that the spa and pool...

Ok, I see what you're saying, yes that makes complete sense. The shared pool and spa system sounds like the route we will be taking so I'll make sure my PB gives me a good recommendation for automating between the 2 modes. Thanks!

That jumping rock sounds fun! I would've loved it when I was younger :). Let me ask, my PB has mentioned a min of 8' is required for diving but see that you guys have been doing it just fine with 6.5'? Is the 8' just an overly cautious type of 'better on the safe side' recommendation? Were you...

Good points, I too had some questions about some of those. 2 skimmers are great. Have each plumbed independently back to the equipment pad for better control. Have a Pentair 2 way valve control each. Interesting that only 2 returns - I would think 3-4 would be best to create circulation but...

Hello Guys, After receiving 2 Fiberglass and 3 Gunite Pool quotes, we finally have a contract in place to get our pool / spa built. This was a bit of a hard decision for us as we were shown a design (pictures attached) that we absolutely loved by one of the initial PB's that we received a quote...

Thanks for the heads up, I'll definitely get a thread going there. Thanks!

Hello Guys, I am getting a new pool/spa built in my backyard in the Northern VA area and just signed the contract with my pool builder this week. I am new to pools and have a lot to learn, I am glad to have found this forum and have already used it a bit to help make decisions on the type of...