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    pH While on Vacation

    We are going to be gone for a week in August, and are a little worried about maintaining the pH of our pool while we are away. It is a new gunite pool with SWG, so the pH has been always heading to the up side. We have usually been adding muriatic acid every other day to keep it where it needs...
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    Need Some Guidance with Chemistry

    I’ve been reading this forum since before we started our pool in February, so have learned a lot along the way. Our builder completed our pool last week, and had his folks come out and do the startup chemistry. They added the salt at the end of last week, and have now turned us loose with the...
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    When to Install an Automation System?

    Moved from here.. Pentair: EasyTouch vs. IntelliTouch (Jim R.) We are in the process of deciding on all our options for our future build, and I am interested in the automation. Is the EasyTouch and ScreenLogic something that can easily be added at a later date? We are trying to stay within a...
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    Need Input on Proposed Equipment for New IG Gunite Build

    We just got the proposal and preliminary computer images back from the PB in the Tulsa, OK area we want to work with. I have copied the essential parts here, and would like some feedback on what, if anything, we need to add, and questions we need to ask before signing a contract. We are supposed...
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    Chlorine vs SWG? PBs have us confused so far

    We are in the process of talking to some builders for our possible new backyard pool, and a couple of them have differing opinions on chlorine vs salt water. The builder we visited with this morning is not a salt water fan, but will install a system if we choose to go that route, and will...
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    Researching for Possible Inground Pool Install

    We are considering having an inground pool installed to be operational in 2019. Neither my husband or myself have ever had a pool, so this is all new territory for us. I've recently found this forum and am ecstatic to find some real world useful information available here helping us to plan, ask...