Recent content by Oumagic

Your pool and yard Looks great. We have a heat pump/solar cover and swam on Sunday. But when I saw the temperature forecast for the week, I turned the heat pump off. If I see any forecast of temps close to 80's in the near future, I will fire it up but no one wants to swim/float/play...

That looks good and I am sure you are excited about not having a dirt yard! Especially when this has been the wettest October in Arizona history.

I have no plaster dust and the pool water looks fantastic. I always figured I would supplement my liquid chlorine with pucks, but the startup guy had that reversed. He wants me to supplement the pucks with liquid "shock" which is just 10% chlorine labeled as shock because nothing else was in...

Thanks!

I agree on the pucks, I don't plan to use them once my initial CYA is in range. I don't know what he used for CYA; they had everything added before I got there and when I asked about stabilizer he said that he already took care of it. :( He did mention that the pucks would help "stabilize...

I tested with my kit and was pleasantly surprised. (The temp is not 84). The CYA was low, but that should be expected since it was just added today. If anything, I worry it will be too high in 48 hours. I will check the pool daily for awhile. my startup guy was pretty good. he said to avoid...

If I had unlimited space and unlimited budget, heck yeah I would want a slide, diving board and also plenty of shallow end to play volleyball. But I had to prioritize how we want to use our limited space and budget. I think in many cases, space and budget can make people decide between...

I appreciate opinions of others, but I prefer a "sports pool". I had a sports pool before that we liked that was 3-4-3 and recently built another sports pool but just a little deeper (3-5-4). We have two friends with deep pools and most of us congregate around the shallow end or benches. Our...

I brushed all weekend. But had no pump or skimmer. The startup is scheduled for this afternoon and I can start working on balancing the water and getting it clean. I will post elsewhere if I have questions on that. I will be less frequent in this thread until I get some landscaping and other...

Pool was done filling at midnight :) pictures taken this morning (none of my equipment is on; scheduled for tomorrow).