Recent content by NewSue

Hi, Our pool is 3 years old with a Pebble Fina Gregio surface. It always had splotches as we were warned, but they were minor color variations and although the surface was not uniform it was beautiful and we loved the color. This last week the weather has been very warm, and we went away for a...

Hi, We have an automatic retractable pool cover (2 years old) and when the pool water is warm from heating it or just from the summertime hot climate, we have noticed that when we retract the cover there is an oily looking film on the surface of the water. I can also smell a moldy smell when we...

We have tumbled travertine coping around the pool and spa (not the whole patio) and have found some staining from bird droppings (I guess it depends on what the bird ate? lol), rust (metal items that got wet from the pool and were sitting on the travertine), and even some plant material. It...

Thanks all! It turned out that a AAA battery fell in the pool during a rain storm. Don't ask me how, I have no idea! The pool guy got the stain out with a commercial product (can't remember what it was exactly, maybe something like Stain Out?) using a contraption with a piece of PVC pipe with a...

One note of caution, when we built our pool I was careful to have written in the plans the depth as "feet of water." In other words, we wrote that the shallow end was to have 3 1/2 feet of water. Different PBs we talked to said that was good to specify since some measure from the bottom to the...

Thanks all, I did buy the TFP test kit, but haven't started using it yet. On my to-do list! I don't mind checking the levels myself but wated the pool guy to handle the liquid chlorine (it makes me irritated) and to brush, which is a bit physical for me, but I am not sure how well he is even...

New to the forum, new to pools, and after wanting one since childhood, we finally built a pool and I have been in heaven for 6 months. Until today! I noticed my first stain after the pool guy left, he had cleaned lots of leaves out of the pool after we had a major rainstorm earlier this week. I...