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I bought our Dolphin Active20 from Marina. I just called, the really nice lady gave me a great price on an original IC40 and is shipping one out today. Great customer service, i remember her helping me a few years ago when I bought the Dolphin.

Anybody have a good source for a deal on an IC40? Mine appears to be dead, shows 80% life, but the service cell light is blinking. I did the acid cleaning but that did not seem to do anything. The unit is 6 years old, so unless anyone knows any tricks, Im hunting for a replacement. Ebay has the...

Thx, I have been searching the forum, appreciate the help

Friends of mine bought a house with a pool, and two of the three glo-brites are dead. Is there any other plug-and-play light that they can use instead of the glo-brites? I have had great luck with my S.R. Smith Treo lights, but from the glo-brite manual, it looks like there is a niche/socket...

Google "fiberglass pool out of ground"...seem to be plenty of people that have fiberglass shells that are partially or fully out of the ground, and have built some sort of pretty wall to hide the pool walls. Foundation, fiberglass tub, pretty wall(s)...seems like that would be a much more...

Just going out on a limb here, but I would imagine that most people with a $100k budget will go with some form of gunite or shotcrete. I would have, for sure. And for what it is worth, our community pool has traditional white plaster, and it is not rough at all. Very smooth, feels great. Same...

Ours is about 16" and it is perfect for a $20, resin Adirondack chair. The armrests make a great spot to hold a drink, set a book, or whatever. Plus, you can cram two of these into the space of one lounge chair....more seating for more people. I absolutely love pictures of lounge chairs in a...

Let's face it, you bought the house three years ago and it had the pool, presumably in poor shape. You should know far better than any of us how that may (or may not) have impacted your decision to buy the house. The pool looks better now than it did, and IMO, looks very nice and clean from that...

Handrails and ladders are easily removable, so there is really no reason not to at least get the mounts installed. I bought a modern, cool looking handrail off Amazon and I love how it looks so much that I never ended up removing it.

I started ours in late May and finished early October. I think I would have been better off to start in late January or early February...after the holidays and way before it gets to be hot...95 degrees mid-summer with humidity and mosquitos and bugs in middle TN is pretty uncomfortable.

I really haven't worried about it...they are just the inexpensive resin adirondack chairs sold pretty much anywhere, and the bottoms are pretty smooth. I dont slide them around, just set it in there and sit down. While I have no way to measure it, I feel like kids jumping and running on the...

I absolutely love the decisions we made. Our second step/ledge is the most popular hangout spot in our pool, perfect depth to sit and be mostly in the water. When we have friends over, the adults are all lounging on the step/ledge. I put my adirondack chair in there, faced towards the...

Just dip the leaves/junk out and make sure your equipment is either running or drained so it doesnt freeze. I left mine open last year, and intend to leave it open this year because I like looking at it.

Gravel is self-compacting, which is one important reason to use it for backfill. The second is that gravel does not really "push" laterally on things...at least, not like damp dirt. Your walls are bolted together, bolted to the brace, and the concrete collar locks in the entire base of the...

Truck bed spray-in liner. Look up LineX..they have a version that is suitable for potable water that is used to line/seal water towers. https://linex.com/protective-coatings

The gaskets go on the fittings. A hole is a hole is a hole, no matter if it is through steel or concrete or wood. If I had to guess, the best way to secure the coping track would be to make sure you have a smooth finish on the top row of blocks. I assume you will fill the blocks with either...

Measure the wire, and if it is 8 gauge or thicker, should be ok. Swap the breaker out yourself for $10. Buy the heater off Amazon, spend a couple hundred bucks in miscellaneous plumbing and electrical stuff, and save yourself a few thousand bucks. Seriously, there is nothing difficult about...

Maybe, it depends on how much help you get, and if it rains. I would think that it might be possible to get the walls up, liner hung, and water in the pool in a week. And then over the course of the next few weeks work on electric, plumbing, pass those inspections, then backfill and do your decking.

I have a 330k BTU natural gas heater and Pentair automation. I set it at 90 degrees in early April. It is still set at 90 degrees. Yesterday morning was cool...low 60s, I went for a run, then got in the pool at 6:30am and it was wonderful. I intend to turn off the heater in early November. Not...

We kept the vacuum on my pool for around 72 hours before turning it off. We have pretty low flow rate out of our hose, so it took a while.

I love my natural gas heater. I set it at 90 in early April and plan to turn it off in November. It cost about $200 for gas in April, around $100 in May, around $100 in June. No idea what July costs are yet, but dont really care. I like warm water and our pool is our happy place.

I did something similar. I bought three nozzles off Amazon for around $10 each, roughly $50 worth of PVC and glue, and $35ish for a pentair valve.

We have a Stone Brook liner from GLI, no border. I did not want windex blue, nor did I want green...I wanted something in-between. Not surprisingly, the color changes throughout the day and with weather (sun vs clouds), and I love our choice. On a beautiful sunny day, it is a gorgeous color...

Any chance you have a couple pics to show? I assume this was a kit, so the liner and walls were all ordered as a package? We hung our liner in October, and it was warm, but definitely not hot. We laid the liner out and let it warm up for a while to get a little more stretchy and workable.

I love ours.

It could also be in your skimmer and/or skimmer line.

Oh, and the general consensus in this forum tends to lean towards getting a robot cleaner rather than a system that uses the pool plumbing.

I like a warm pool, and our natural gas heater has been running since early April and set to 90 degrees, middle TN. Cost was about $250 in April, and $125 in May. Im going out on a limb that it will be less for June. The initial heating was the most costly, but maintaining the heat has been far...

LineX, a truck bedliner product, is also used to coat potable water containers. This looks like a great setup for a spray in rubberized coating.

It is more fun to swim in a small pool than it is to sit inside playing video games. If that is what fits in your yard, then take it and run with it. Smaller pools are easier to heat/cool, and in your area, might get year-round use out of it. Our pool is not huge, but works for us. We are also...