Recent content by ummgood

I hadn't heard of the fabric idea. That usually isn't done here in Texas. I wonder if it is a regional spoil type thing. My soil is like digging in a rock garden. The fill line comes out between a boulder and my bond beam. I couldn't put in a pot because of the city requirements. I would have...

I think I fixed the image links. I was sad that Photobucket changed their policies. I just deleted my Photobucket account. I am sad my old poolbuild thread probably is vacant of photos. I downloaded them but it will be a bunch of work to get them back online.

Hi all! I haven't posted in awhile so I figured I would post something I figured out. I had to pull the info from a bunch of different places and had to piece together the info so I figured having it all in one place might help. Backstory: I wanted an autofill when my pool was built. But...

I would stay away from galvanized. I would get aluminum if possible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haha true. Hopefully after the warranty issue is fixed with my deck then I'll be all done. The pool itself is very rock solid. I hope it stays that way :) Some of the pavers are hotter than others. The coping pavers are easy to stand on in the heat. The flagstone shaped ones depend on the...

Ok latest update! My pool is complete as far as the construction phase. They have completed basically the entire punch list. Now I have some work that is warranty that they are going to get the paver sub to come out and fix because a few of my pavers are sinking so they have to fix it...

I am officially done I think! I do have to clean out my drain again because we got a huge storm 2 days ago and there were tons of leaves in the pool. Here are my levels as of today (it has taken quite awhile for my FC to drop after the SLAM). FC - 10 CC - 0.5 CYA - 70 PH - 7.5 TA - 70 CH - 375...

Congrats on no more green!! You need to keep the FC level at 20 as much as you can until you pass the 3 requirements to stop the SLAM: 1. Clear water 2. Pass your OCLT 3. CC < 0.5

I totally agree with the Jandy software. I have the PDA and the remote is horrible. Half of the time lines don't show up on the display, it seems to get confused a lot when syncing, and it takes forever to boot. I should design my own automation setup. Nevermind I am not that crazy.

Piolin is right. With a CYA of 50, a FC of 12 isn't slam level. You'll want to use pure bleach (or chlorinating liquid from walmart etc...) to get your FC up to 20. The CC of 1.5 says that your FC is working and killing stuff but you aren't at a FC level given your CYA to kill off the algae...

What was your CC level at? After 4 days of slamming my pool was passing the OCLT but my CC was 1ppm.

Marla your pool and yard look tremendous!!!

You would be surprised how much a frog can move around your pool. I had one alive in mine and was trying to catch it with my skimmer pole and it was tough. Took me 15 minutes. I would hope they would come across it.

This is a lot of the junk I got out of my main drain. I took this photo the day after so it is dry but it was kind of cool to see some of the leaves were spotted from being in the pool for a long time. - - - Updated - - - They were inside the drain you couldn't see them. My 12 year old...

I am finally done! OCLT passed again last night and my last two CC readings were 0. I have a sparkling pool again! Thanks for the help! The problem was that darn main drain. I am going to have to come up with a better way to maintain it.