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So I'm opening up the pool 2wks ago and after giving everything the once over I notice that I'm not getting any pressure out of our 3 deck jets. See picture below: The 3 jets are along the right-hand side of the picture. The pool equipment is mount at the far end of the house just out of...

Very nice! And thanks for the builder info.

If you don't mind my asking, who did your fireplace. This spring I was planning to build a custom built-in grill and I'm still shopping modular outdoor fireplace kits. Your setup looks very similar to what I had in mind. The flagstone(?) on the fireplace looks great!

Welcome to the forum ahfolife! I'm also in the Nashville area, Murfreesboro to be more specific. I'm not much on endorsements or anything like that but I was more than satisfied with my particular builder. Unfortunately I don't think you'll have much success building a pool period for under...

That quote sounds about right for this area. I'm also a M'boro resident and we completed our pool 2yrs ago. I don't think we ever got a quote from Brads but we did 3 or 4 of the most prominent outfits. In the end we went with Hunt over off Thompson Lane. I've got a pool build thread titled...

Guess I'm gonna have to do some test spots just to be on the safe side. Had the weather been more cooperative last night I would've tried the Mr Clean Magic Eraser. My original thought was some sort of polish/buffing compound. There seemed to be two distinct types on Amazon; one set for...

Title pretty much says it all. What's the preferred cleaner for polishing stainless handrails & ladders? We had our pool built last year and after opening this spring there are some rust colored stains along the water line and what appear to be white colored water or salt spots above the...

Ksnewman, I love your fireplace. We built our pool last year and we're looking to add something very similar to our pavillion. (See my Construction thread: Nashville Suburbs) Something like your fireplace but on a slightly reduced scale would go nicely with our planned outdoor kitchen...

Unless your yard is the size Texas or you simply like rock concert type volume levels I think you might be overthinking things. I have a 36'x18' pool arranged side-to-side as viewed from back steps of the house. To one side of the pool there's a 12'x16' covered pavilion. I purchased a 10yr old...

Cool. Now that I've confirmed I'll be safe. I'm patiently awaiting an invite. :wave:

Beautiful location but being an engineer and realizing that this is in the Bahamas; Do you have any storm surge concerns? Seems like even a Cat1 or 2 Hurricane would send waves of sea water up and into the pool?

Re: New pool build in San Jose, CA (with bid) Quite honestly, for what you're spending it shouldn't cost a dime more. Our vinyl pool was originally spec'd for 3.5' and 6' respectively. We decided a day or 2 before the dig that we wanted the depth increased to 4' and 7' and our PB made it...

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures but it looked every bit as good as the turkeys you see in magazines. Very even golden color. Which is surprising given there's no temperature adjustments required. We did a pair of ~6lb chickens a week or so after Thanksgiving and they turned out just...

I just cooked my first fried turkey today with a cheap Charbroil "oil-less fryer." I brined the 15lb bird for ~18hrs, shoved a few sprigs of rosemary from the garden up it's backside, and dropped it in the fryer basket. Two and a half hours later, deliciousness happened. :stirpot: Who knew...

Great build thread you've got going! A couple of comments; We installed a new pool last winter and also went with Cardinal's Oasis design albiet the slightly smaller 36' model. We love it! Ours only goes to 7' on the deep end but that's more than enough for cannon balls. We get lots of...

Re: Underway in Corpus Christi, TX. Great looking project. One suggestion however would be to tie the downspout (located near the spanish tiled patio) into the channel drains. We had all of our rear downspouts and deck drains tied into a single 4" sewer drain that transports the water to the...

It's probably a personal preference thing but I have to ditto brg88tx's comments. I cracked open my filter about a month after our pool was completed and cleaned it out really good but in the future, I anticipate cleaning the filter once per season. It had minimal pressure rise when I checked...

Honestly without knowing how much you paid above the price of the filter it's hard to know if you got duped. If my filter happend to go bad, I'm not sure I'd even call the pool store. There's no wiring or moving parts so the install is simply a matter of going to HD or Lowes and buying an 8'...

I fully understand wanting to hold off on a $70 test kit when you've got a bottle of 100 test strips on the kitchen counter or you can take your water to the local pool store for free analysis. The problem is that neither one of those is accurate. The test strips are terrible for just about...

It sounds like you still have an algae bloom in the pool. When TFP prescribes shocking they aren't saying drop in a bag of shock Mon/Wed/Fri or simply add x-amount of liquid chlorine. The process requires you to add chlorine to a specific ppm and keep the level there until comsumption of...

It looks like a very good bid, however the skeptic in me wonders why it seems so comparatively low considering all that is included? 41'x15' while somewhat narrow is still a fairly big pool and your equipment list is pretty substantial. I'd get 1 or 2 more quotes and mabey ask to visit 1 or 2 of...

We live just south of Nashville and built our pool this past winter. We received one quote from a Nashville based company, Premiere Pools that was reasonable but firmly in the mid $40k range for a gunite, chlorine puck, sand filtered pool. Our desired upgrades would've required putting the...

Update! It took me just under 2wks to go from TA=200 down to TA=110. The drop down to 80 took a another week and I gained the pH stability I was searching for. I'm now at TA=80 and I'm dosing at roughly 1/3gallon MA per week with no aeration. PH is pretty solid at 7.5. Thanks TFP for making...

I'll look up the Hayward part numbers for the screws later tonight. It shouldn't be too difficult to find some suitable SS replacements. A quick search returned these in 316 marine grade stainless @ $0.15 each. Thanks for the advice guys. I just wanted to make sure the rusting wasn't an...

Yeah, I guess I wasn't specific. The fix I was alluding to would be a small incision to remove the stone and a ~1" blue or clear circular vinyl patch. I'm not sure what rate it would leak at when it finally ruptures but I don't want the burden of having to check it. It would kinda suck to...

We've had our pool up and running for about 2months and I'm beginning to see signs of rust on my Hayward skimmer mouth screws as well as on the pool ladder where the treads attach to the verticle rods. I'm wondering 2 things: Is this normal? Do pool hardware companies design separate...

I was fooling around in the deep (7ft) end of the pool last night when I noticed a small irregularity in the surface at the bottom between the main drains. I'm 99.9% convinced its a 1/2" to 3/4" piece of gravel. Unfortunately it's got a pretty sharp point sticking up and it's just a matter of...

How about creating a 5ft perimeter "kill zone" around the pool? Both of these control pests above and below. No need to biologically kill your whole lawn. or

Congratulations :nopic:

My local Lowes charges $7.50/gal of 31.5% MA. I found an old fashioned hardware store that sells it for $5.25. I immediately purchased a case of 4-gallons. You have to ask the clerk for it because it's kept in the back warehouse. Don't assume they don't have it just cause you can't see it...