Recent content by TexEdmond

Howdy! Welcome to the best dang pool website known to humankind. This place is really special. It helped take away the fear and uncertainty of being a new pool owner and gave me the knowledge to really put things on autopilot, all in about a season of ownership. Happy browsing, and happy...

Sign up for Rover or one of the other dog walking apps. Whenever we go on vacation and can't take the dog with us we drop off the dog for summer camp at somebody's house. Make some bucks, spoil a pupper, then give it back to the owners.

Have you tried getting your alkalinity down? My water cleared up significantly dropping below 100ppm TA, and then it went ultra clear down around 80 and below. I still get the same thing in front of my pool lights. I have really high TA fill water and I'm always fighting pH rise. pH rise...

Ok. Thanks for helping me understand. For the time being the lid fits in the skimmer much better than it ever did since we have been here, so there's way less stress on it than before.

It seems like the most natural looking location for that joint is where the concrete was already cut. We removed that part on account of when they poured the patio the first time the same thing happened: a crack formed. Would this be an acceptable location for that joint?

That makes sense, thanks. My first thought was using a hammer drill in conjunction with something like that. I'm also seeing some smaller circular saw blades that are marketed for curved cuts. I'm reaching out to the concrete sub that the PB used for the install and a neighbor who does...

I don't know how he does it. Totally blown away by Marty's knowledge and dedication. A great milestone indeed. Three cheers for Marty!

Homey, if that's gonna happen in the deep end it's likely 2 bodies they're retrieving.

Also "Unbreakable" by M. Night Shamylan. Scary as heck just thinking about it.

Gotcha. So does that mean the patio section that is poured there needs to be treated like a cantilevered coping section, where it doesn't have overpour that stresses the underlying skimmer masonry?

I notice the original build didn't have this either. I suppose that explains the crack. I noticed when they removed that section of the patio the skimmer itself appears to be inside a solid concrete structure. I'm having trouble visualizing the proper fix you're describing. Would that be a...

Ooh. That's a good idea, we may try to visualize that and execute. That's what I thought. I was also visualizing taking off the coping, then using some kind of grinder with a dust hood to cut down some on the dust. Rookie question: is there any way to make a curved cut in concrete? All the...

Yes, there is rebar throughout the new pour, and they matched the existing control cuts, but I believe I'm going to ask them to return and cut them deeper, as some of them are quite shallow. Do you know the recommended depth?