Recent content by rpeck

This is our first spring having our pool. I am trying to figure out the best balance between letting the kids swim and killing our electricity. We have an electric heat pump, no gas. From what I have read, heat pumps cannot heat the water when the air temp is below about 50 Fahrenheit. My...

Just enough to connect the bare minimum of our equipment. Water feature pump and the heater are not connected, and something about the stuff they did connect is not the way it will be long term, but I did not fully grasp what would change about it when they get more valves. The ones we did get I...

Plaster went in on Saturday as scheduled. Was able to start filling after the acid wash on Sunday morning. Took about 27 hours to fill and came out at 15332 gallons per the flow meters on the hoses. They are supposed to send someone out today to do startup, and we'll be meeting with people this...

Well, had some additional setbacks. Work didn't happen according to schedule, so plaster is now set for Saturday. Due to the valve shortage following last month's heavy freeze, the plumbing is only complete to the extent that water can be circulated. The water features are not plumbed at this...

Been a while since I last posted. We have had some progress (tile, coping, decking), but then things stalled out for a really long time. The factory that built the custom water feature in the middle had a fire at one point, delaying getting the feature itself. When the hard freeze hit Texas back...

Week's been busy so haven't had a chance to post until this morning, but gunite went in on Tuesday. Wasn't expecting it until today, so it was a really pleasant surprise to see them getting started when I got back from taking my kids to school.