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    Help! My pool is leaking! Winter is coming

    Hi all, so we have a new salt in-ground steel-wall grouted bottom pool. The liner was installed this past spring. We’re located near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I took a corner of the safety cover off 2.5 weeks ago to check things out. Water had dropped about 12” below the returns where it was...
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    Hairline cracks in new grouted pool bottom

    Hi All, How concerned should I be about hairline cracks in a new grouted pool bottom, or is it typical? There are 3 hairline cracks, one down the centre of the slope between the shallow and deep end, and 2 opposite each other in the deep end on the sloped walls down from the steel walls. At...
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    Need Help Picking Our Pool Deck Stamped Concrete Colour (Interstar integral colour and release powder)

    Hi All, We’re a few days away from our stamped concrete pour. We’ll be using a seamless slate texture where they’ll cut the joints in later. We now need to select our colour, do you have any favourites out there? Our house is a light beige siding, and our deck is Trex Spiced Rum. It will be...
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    Plumbing to my tiki bar?

    Hi all, we're planning a tiki bar and I would like to run hot and cold water out to a bar sink. I've got the drain part figured out, but am trying to figure out how to get from the house to the tiki bar 15' away. We're located in Canada, so the lines will need a shutoff inside the home, with a...
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    New Build - Equipment Placement and Electrical Source

    Hi all, I'm looking for some advice/guidance on pool equipment placement and where we can run our electrical source from to the controller. I'm looking at placing the pump/filter/heater/chlorinator outside against the side of my garage, and the Hayward OmniLogic controller/panel inside a nearby...
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    New Pool Build - OmniLogic Controlled - WiFi or ethernet connection?

    Hi All, I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions about our pool build. Steel walls are in place and concreted in, and then left that way over the winter until they come back in the spring (We're in Ontario, Canada). Installers will be putting in an OmniLogic controller, but I'm wondering if I...