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I agree. We love our heat pump with full inverter technology.

And to make testing so much easier you really do need a speed stir. Looks like they’re currently available on AU eBay from the USA. Often they’re not lately. Huge mark up from their true cost so if you have another way of getting one do that. They are invaluable for testing and I would probably...

Total Pool Water Testing Kit, Salt Water Clear Choice Labs

Yep. Do not mess around with this. Our pool supposedly passed its leak test. Obviously it didn’t or we wouldn’t be left with a brand new pool with leak that is completely inaccessible. It may be an inconvenience now, but I can tell you that it can quite easily turn into your worst nightmare.

Hi Andrew from Brisbane [emoji112][emoji2532] Pretty sure you guys stole our summer! We haven’t pushed past 30 for several weeks now. Order the clear choice labs complete test kit (get the salt water one if you have a swcg which I assume you do). Might seem like a bit of an initial outlay but it...

The only way hubby brushes the pool is from within it [emoji849] Not sure how thoroughly it gets brushed though since the next time I look he’s usually floating with his eyes shut.

Sorry to hear you are still struggling with your Pb. We are too, but have only two very small outstanding jobs. They have stopped asking for final payment. It’s only a few hundred. We finally had our leak resolved but it involved having to permanently bung the solar line and replumb the heat...

By far the most used section of our pool. The kids rest on the bench when needed so benches in the deep end would be useful.

Our pool is 6’ at the deepest and it’s where the kids play and adults float. Kind of annoying our small pool. In fact our 4’ shallow end is the neglected area.

I have about 2” of tile between the top of my skimmer box and the coping. I had to go and actually look lol. I would have assumed it was flush. I think what is throwing the eye at the moment with your pool is the lack of water, making the fact that the skimmer box is lower than the bottom of the...

It’s beautiful [emoji7] Love your design!

Hi and welcome from up the road in Brisbane [emoji112][emoji2532] I hope you’ve been enjoying your pool with this lovely weather we’ve been having. Btw we love photos here!

Our pool is 4’ to 6’ and only 20’ long. I would use 3.5’ as an absolute minimum shallow end. Ours is perfect but our youngest who is 7, can’t touch... yet. We do have a pool length bench though. If we didn’t I think I would prefer 3.5’ over the 4’. It’s a personal preference as everyone has a...

Dual purpose! Could even hire it out [emoji6]

If you don’t have a cover any heater will struggle to maintain temp. We have an over sized heat pump. We heat the pool all year round and with the cover on it runs very little to maintain temp. With the cover off, even in summer, it will run significantly more often, especially at night. Without...

Btw your pool is bigger than the concrete pool we just put in [emoji15]

Hi Phil from Brisbane! You guys have been having some hot weather down there. Hopefully you’ll have your pool up soon but definitely good to take your time. Good job on the CCL test kit too.

It is pretty cute! He lives in the pool. Our older son isn’t quite as keen, but once he’s in he won’t get out. The frustrating thing is that the pvc glue is obvious in the photos at every single elbow. No one knows what has happened, but possibly that line was the last to be done and used as a...

It is a relief to have it sorted and to be able to enjoy the pool without the feeling that something isn’t right. All the best for 2019 and thank you for all your advice along our pool building journey [emoji4]

Merry Christmas TFPers. Yes, I’m still here! It’s been a bit of a saga since I last posted. The pavers did go down, although we are still waiting on the replacement pavers to be sealed and the 40cm of mastic to be done between the drain and path. About 6 weeks ago I had a sneaking suspicion...

Looks great with the paving base down. A little glimpse of what’s to come! Loving your pool area. I think we also need the permanent fence in place before water can go in.

Screw in could be a different story depending on which part isn’t fitting right. I honestly have no experience with that. Because ours just push into the wall there is no fixture on/in the shell. The housing just pushes into place with minimal effort. It may still be the housing that...

Do they screw in or push in? The returns in our pool just push in and the those installed by the Pb would push out of the wall and hang there. He sent the plumber who instead of replacing them, taped them with duct tape [emoji849] it did work but I ended up replacing all 5 of them myself and got...

I’m wondering how dirty your walls are and what’s on them? My walls don’t look any different after I brush or after the robot cleans them. They are not visibly dirty to start with. I know my robot is working as intended though as any debris on the bottom of the pool (leaves etc) is gone after a...

Beautiful swimming weather here in Brisbane too, Dirk [emoji6]

Great to see progress and to hear you have been swimming [emoji2113]

Good to hear it’s not an allergy. Obviously a skin irritation isn’t pleasant, but it won’t kill you like a true allergy had the potential to do. Hopefully the dermatologist can shed some light on it. If not, it might just be one of those things, though I do agree it sounds like an additive in...

All our pipes run within the concrete. We just had a leak repaired and they jackhammered down through the coping. It was messy, nerve wracking stuff. They did cut a bonding wire in the process. They found it and fixed it, then fixed the bonding wire, filled with concrete and replaced the pavers...

What I’d do... Find out who’s loosing the most pool water. Together, mark the water level in the skimmer box of both pools. Twenty four hours later, measure water loss. Since they’re in the next door to each other there shouldn’t be a huge difference in evaporation etc. Be sure to have the same...

It will definitely work well I think with your silver travertine. Sometimes these things end up being a positive. Your deck will not only be pretty, but interesting and different too