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Thank you, it was tough losing what should have been my home for many years... and seeing it go to auction at $380k less than what I had into it. Looking back, it was probably the best thing that happened to me as I am now divorced and could not afford the house on my income alone. I was the...

Wow, has it been that long :) Well, last time I saw the pool deck was mid 2009 as I lost my house to foreclosure. The deck still remained in excellent shape and no visible cracks. This was a fairly large surface area and some minor cracking where the deck met the pool bond, this could be...

Sorry, just rebuilt my signature as the details were from my last pool. This is a completely new pool to me as I just started maintaining it the last couple weeks. Have to go out and pull more details from the equipment later today. Definintely a plunge in the deep end when you don't know much...

:cry: We had a pool party on Saturday and wouldn't you know it... the poll pump died! I am now researching what type of pump to replace it and see many 'gently' used pumps for sale on craigslist or maybe re-build the motor? I am on an extremely tight budget now and must get something to get...

Jason, Thank you. This is artificial turf so I do not worry about getting grass clippings in the pool. It helps keep that summer appearance duing wintertime since the rest of the yard grass goes dormant and turns brown at that time.

I still drop by from time to time and have referred all my pool friends to TFP, but I never added my pool to the slideshow. Can you please add? I could not have built this without the help of TFP! [attachment=0:33zdauj5]College Dr House Oct 2007 006.jpg[/attachment:33zdauj5]

Bets of luck to you if you have it in writing. I do like the pebble-tec product, but would not committ to it again since they could not provide me a copy of the warranty. If they would have provided a copy like this, I would have gone with pebble-tec, unfortunately Ms. Hunt did not provide...

Hi there - please get it in writing from pebble-tec! Maybe your installer provides a lifetime warranty, but that means your installer must remain in business. This is the email response I received from Pebble-Tec in July, when I inquired about their product. They backed the product in the...

Hi Matt - Feel free to share pics...I for one love viewing the pool builds on this site. Provided me inspiration and good vibes as I built mine.

Welcome to TFP. Can't wait to see the progress of your pool. Sounds like you are staring at a great time of the year. We ended up with our owner builder construction during the summer season this year.

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we plan to stay in our new house for at least 7-10 years, so we went with a higher end exposed agregate finsih called Beadcrete. We are so far very happy with the product, not the installation. Our last pool was Pebble-Tec and we loved that as well. Even though we did not stay in last house...

I am a newbie to hockey and admit I have never watched more than a few minutes of a game on TV, I have never been into team sports...especially on TV. We have the new Coyotes arena in Glendale, AZ (now Jobing.com arena) about 20 min from my house and I am interested in going to a game...two...

Jason -Thank you for taking the time to write a robust and thorough review!

Hi Brian, I compleetely agree that a good test kit is needed at each of the locations in order to maintain the pools with the least amount of effort. My last pool, I used the test strip methos, and taking the water to pool store to test....I spent lots' of $ at the pool store with constant...

Thank you for sharing. Not only does it illustrate ho*w this can happen, but also how severe a burn can be without other damage (clothing, shoes, etc). Many people do not realize that a burn like this continues to cook and that immediate medical attention is needed. Luckily this guy went in...

Along the line of a cover starting to deteriorate, I found that the "noodle" material will degrade and cause very fine paticles in the water. If you have pool toys that are the same color, look closely at them to see if they are starting to deteriorate.

Hi Belldiver - I do not think you will find much details on how much pool service costs since most in this forum maintain their own pool. I know many people that never touch their pool and have a pool service come and maintain it for them and the water looks good. As for establishing that...

That is wonderful news! We were in the pool as soon as it filled up, hope you get to enjoy tomorrow!

You should see me when we cruise, especially the 3/4 days out of CA. Those spas are scary with all the people...then all the kids running through them - do like the salt water in the ppols each morning. They cycle fresh salt water to the pools each am.

I know there are many that can help on the board...there are many filters out there. Before bidding, have you narrowed down the type you want? Are you sure cartridge is right for your pool? Cartridge can be noce, but the actual replacements can add up. Can you post your pool size / details...

I would have paid $100, the smae as my engineering costs to have an accurate calculation of my needs. After living with the plumbing now, I question many things that were done and if we will have problems or just irritations down the road because of the "rule of thumb/experience method" I do...

This looks like a good offer, just signed myself up :) Thanks for the FYI!

Welcome to TFP! I know there is at least one other Aussie here, but I haven't seen him post for a few weeks. Sounds like you are getting primed for the swim season - lot's of excellent info here, you definitely came to the right place :-D See you have racing in your name....what do you race?

I give the wall whale a big thumbs up :goodjob: I hated briushing my last pool with the regular brush - always had difficulties trying to get the technique just right. This time, I purchased teh wall whale and it is a snap to get the pool brushed. I am short and always had to place my weight...

I have done fairly well with keeping my PH at 7.2...it has remianed constant through last night, this morning and now again this evening. I think I understand the PH factor enough to be comfortable, but the chlorine is still a bit evasive in how I am understanding. Tonight FC = 3 * we had 9...

Thanks for the tips. Bandit is doing better today and looks forward to being able to get in the pool when he is fully healed. Bandit is not the alpha at this time, my female jack russell is the alpha female of the dogs and tries to push it every time I am not around. She has a hard head and I...

Hi there - welcome! I really like your waterline tile, that really shimmers with the water even with the rain. Please post more pics when you are finished. tip - I found it easy to post my pics to photobucket.com and then post them into the forum with very little effort.

Hopefully the glitch is me with using the kit, just getting used to it this week...having fun with it too! Water is very warm, we are under heat advisories the last few days...should be 114 degrees today with possible monsoon storms this evening. It was great watching the lightning last night...