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    Coping Grout

    Anyone have suggestions on how I can fix this? The pool was built back in the 80s and refinished last year. The grouting is a ish show so my winter project is to fix it up. I'm thinking I'll need to grind out all the grouting around the pool and come back with some sort of silicone. We...
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    Pool Drainage

    We had a heck of a rain last night which filled our pool and it overflowed. This morning when we woke up the water was back below the coping about even with the top of the tiles/bottom of the coping. I can see no overflow drain anywhere. Did all that water seep through the grout? I can't...
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    First Test Results and other Questions

    So got my good kit and was able to test today: FC 2 CC 0 PH 7.2 TA 90 CH 200 CYA 0 The pool was replastered in September so the PH rises about .2-.8 per day....I’ve dumped about 2 gals of muriatic acid this week. So I know I need to get my CYA up, any other suggestions? I also just replaced...
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    Few Quick Questions

    I have a couple of questions I figured I'd compile into one post. Just bought a house with an old pool. We redid the plaster, tile, and coping and now I'm getting on to the operational side of things. 1. We removed the slide but now have a 1.5' pipe sticking up through the concrete with a...
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    Plaster Removal

    Hi everyone, new guy here.... So we're buying a house with a neglected 20'x40'x9.5' pool. Had an inspector come out yesterday to look it over and give a quote on the resurface. Overall it was exactly as we thought only real issue was the pool needed to be resurfaced. The quote came in at 15k...