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A friend of mine has a swimming pool with a infinity catch basin. The infinity catch basin has its own pump that sucks from the bottom of the basin and sends water through large returns that go to the pool. (so sucks from basin and dumps into pool). The pool has a seperate pump just for the...

Just trying to educate myself on intinity edge pools as i have a friend looking at one and i would love to help him. We have the calculation for the catch basin size to include surge...etc... My question is on the autofill. Obviously the autofill goes in the basin. My question is below. 1)...

Newly installed pool and pump. for the first two-three days the pump primed and stayed prime the entire time. Today i noticed the pump had no water in it so it lost its prime and i shut it off. i then restarted it and it primed without issue but 2 hours later lost the prime again and the pump...

I am educating myself on the electrical side of my system and not sure i fully understand how many circuits/relays i need. See below what i have, i would love to learn what is assigned to a circuit vs. a relay so i can identify if i need to get a daughter card. I have the I8PS alongside 300w...

My gunite team sprayed the base for the table in a 18" sono tube. However they said they do not spray the round top of the table so they didnt do it. Now i have asked my tile crew to start the top they are also saying that the gunite crew sprays the top and they just tile it. Given gunite is...

Since I built my own pool, naturally i enjoy sharing my lessons learned with friends. I have a friend building a nice zero edge pool with a pool builder that has a solid reputation. (zero edge is where the water and the pool coping is at the same height/level. there is a small gap before...

Getting close to decking time. going to do a channel drain. it seems like Deck-O-Drain is the most popular, is there any reason why? i just noticed the grill doesnt come off so makes cleaning difficult. Are there any recommendations that might be better (maybe like a 2" or 3")? or does the...

I just want to make sure i am not missing anything. I am building my own pool for a new construction house. We have moved into the house before any final grading of my lot or sod is installed as im waiting on the pool pieces to be done that can mess up my sod. The final piece is cement decking...

I have A 44’ x 26’ pool with a 9’ square spa. i have 2 lighted bubblers in the sun shelf, these use globrites. the pool has was shot with gunite on Friday. i ran 2” pvc pipe in the pool and spa for globrites. pool has 6 lights Spa has 1 Then the 2 lighted bubblers The 2 lighted bubblers...

Excavating my pool tomorrow (owner builder). lets say my pool is 4' deep of water depth. how deep should i excavate from the top of the form boards so i can easily check to make sure everything is correct? As I dont believe the waterline is the top of the form boards, but i also have gunite...

All three are pretty similiar. We have had option 1 the entire time and as I look at the photo me i see Wasted space between the hot tub and the steps on option 1. The idea of the pool being wide is i could Have a “basketball lane”. However the waterfall/slide doesn’t get access to the...

Houston Texas Owner Building. Actually location is Montgomery Texas Just Northwest of Houston. We have decided to undergo the pool build on our own. It has been difficult to get/find Gunite and get on any gunite schedule in Houston Texas but we are finally on a schedule and set for May 5th...

I am designing my plumbing based on how a pool i bought 5 years ago was designed by a previous pool plumber. Information: I am building a 1,200 SF pool that will have a spa, 2 bubblers, large waterfall, and a slide. Requirements - waterfall on its own pump as its large. Spa to heat up fast...

We built a pool about 4 years ago, and recently sold our house. We are now building a new house and designing a new pool. We loved everything about our previous pool. We live in Texas but still use the hot tub quit a bit. The issue with the previous pool is that it would take the hot tub 2-3...

I know there have been threads before but I would like somefeedback on my build specifically. I live on 5 acres. My closest neighbor is on the fireplaceside maybe 1 acre away from me. What I am trying to accomplish: A) Nice crisp sound while the waterfall is going inthe spa without waking up...

We are going with stonescapes mini pebble and like the darker colors. our PB has midnight blue and we think that is a shade to dark. However we believe Tahoe and tropics blue is a shade to light. we want to customize either tropics blue or Tahoe blue to be slightly darker to get us a color...

Couple questions i have a bench along one side of my pool the entire length i have flagstone coping 1) how much of a coping overhang should I have? I think right now it is at 2" will that annoy me while sitting on the bench? 2) on the spa I believe it will also be 2" -- is that to much to...

I came home after dark today and the waterline tile was done. The tile looks amazing. But I have a question about the skimmer box and the tile. Shouldn't there be nothing but tile in the skimmer box? I cant imagine you would want to put plaster in the skimmer box? It almost looks like my...

I have been out of town for a week and my waterfall was being built while I was gone. the rebar and mesh are all-in. i am posting to seek advice and to ensure I don't get frustrated with my builder. 1) the slide and jump rocks are exactly 1 foot short from the dimensions I told the builder I...

I have a crew stubbing out the pool today so my PB can shoot gunite tomorrow. i don't want to bug my PB on Father's Day so I figured I would ask here they have 3 total pvc pipes sticking straight out of ground. 2 for waterfall and 1 for the slide. they are about 4' tall my question is, with...

I need to measure my depth to make sure we are in the ballpark. how do I get a good estimate? Do I measure from the dirt or from the top of the rebar? (Probably 4" gap between dirt rebar. how far up do I measure to? Just guess we're the waterline tile will be? i also see we're people say add...

Digging tomorrow and I am trying to get my lengths down for each depth interval. I am 6'2" --> so I can stand comfortably in 5' of water My wife is 5'10 --> I think 5 ft would be to deep for her to stand in comfortable. So, would everyone agree that a 5' section of any length is useless since...

I am building a pool with a large waterfall and a ~ 4 foot tall privacy wall with a fireplace in between. Originally the waterfall was going to be made out of gunite and do the artificial rocks (with a slide) and the wall was also going to be made out of gunite and then the face of it sprayed...

I am building a pool and wanting some help on our slide/waterfall dimensions. currentlu as it sits our waterfall will all be made out of gunite with an estimated 4 tons of waterfall. the waterfall will ranger in heights from 20" to 50". thw slide will be incorporated into the waterfall, which...

Dolphin offers so many robotic cleaners what is the difference between all the product families? i look at the comparison chart and it says premium is the best, but which product family is premium. i am looking at robots and trying to figure out what the different product families are

My wife and I finally decided on a pool builder and we have just signed our contract. Our Pool Builder actually lives in our neighborhood and it was someone my wife new. He told us from the beginning our rough price would be Cost + 15%. We interviewed probably 6 builders and ultimately we chose...

Can someone help me out on how to properly post photo bucket pictures. I have maxed out my allowed space for attachments. I opened a photo bucket account and I figured out how to attach links to my photobucket photo's, but can I need insert a picture from photo bucket that automatically pops...

My pool build should start soon and I'm researching pool cleaners. I see a lot of threads about pool cleaners, but no thread about what the absolute best robotic cleaner is regardless of price? I will have a stonescapes mini pebble finish. do not have a lot of trees near my pool, but I live on...

I am hoping to get some thoughts and inputs on which design I should go with. Background: I live on 5 acres. My garage sites to the right of my house/covered patio so there is no way my neighbors could see my family enjoying the pool from that side. The other side of the house were the pool...

This forum is amazing and I have learned so much fromeveryone on this forum. My wife and I have made up our mind that we areinstalling a pool and we are in the process of talking to pool builders andhaving designs made up. (will not have any designs from anyone until nextweek). Tomball Texas...