Recent content by uuacallis

Just wanted to give a shout out to the TFP gang and say thanks for all of the posts that you guys do. I followed the BBB method last year including as I closed the pool with my pool builder last year. He argued with me that my pool would be green and nasty when we opened it in the spring if I...

Hello, I too noticed similar things in our pool bottom (though not to your extent). Mostly you can feel a little crack here or there. We have one place about a foot long, by 6" wide that it feels like the contractor didn't put enough vermiculite in and it isn't smooth. I was actually wondering...

Actually that works well, the wife saw one of those fountains and put it on the required equipment list by Mid-July.. For now, I guess it's going to be the Borax to get the PH up.

Would running the slide be a simple way to aerate water?

Good Morning, Saturday was a big day for us, the pool builder was able to set our liner and we had 24K gallons of water delivered to fill up my new pond. We had to use delivered water because our well will simply not put out that much water. Doing some research, in our area the water delivery...

Good Evening, My wife and I are putting in our first pool and working with what we thought was a decent builder, however from reading some of the other posts here I have my concerns. The main issues that concern me are 1 - Back fill type - His plan is to re-use the existing dirt that was...