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Thank you for the feedback. Yeah my mistake on the 'flexible grout' - I'm just not familiar with the correct terms. Do you think there is any recourse I have here along the lines of generally accepted pool coping construction guidelines not being followed? Or will this just be an argument to...

Hi everyone, Our IG saltwater pool was completed just about 2 years ago and everything has been mostly good - we love it! I started noticing cracks forming both between the coping stones and the patio stones, as well as in the grout between the patio stones during the summer, so less than two...

Someone may have said it already but contact your water provider and see if you can get a credit on your water bill since the thousands of gallons going into the pool won’t enter the city sewer system. Unless you’re on a septic tank Then none of this is relevant!

an outside shower is n my long list of ‘would be nice’ items. Placement wouldn’t be near the house and I’d be using a dedicated line from my sprinkler setup so no direct hot water option. So I was investigating a solar shower setup Like This one. My intended location would be in the sun for...

Air temp 20*, water temp 36*. I jumped in too. After a sauna of course but maybe I’m starting a Christmas Day tradition.

it looks like a lot of people took advantage of the knowledge and experience of the moderators to get them through this big freeze event so I wanted to give a hearty thank you to Texas Splash who seems to have been online almost constantly over the last few days, and Mknauss who’s offering...

I thought I’d resurrect this thread since we’re cooling down now. I was in our pool last night at 67F. It we have a sauna cabin right by the pool so it becomes a plunge pool until next spring. i think the lowest temp I jumped in last winter was 42F. if you’re going in then you still have to...

We went with ocean blue and got the sun almost all day until about 4:30pm. The hottest our pool got was back during the June heatwave and I think it was 91 or 92 for a day or two.

Maybe you’re witnessing evolution in action. Maybe bugs of yesteryear all sank but now, at least, sme have deformed or evolved so as to not sink and to leverage water tension to remain at the surface. And better yet, maybe there are some of those same or very similar bugs that have been able to...

Vertical Clarity? Schmertical Schmarity - those drains are at least 30ft away. Thank you TFP!! Daniel.

Do you have a main drain? You could adjust you valve to just pull water from the drain whilst you’re gone. That at least keeps the water moving and you in-line FC feeder running.

North Atlanta in the house! I took my son to six flags white water in Marietta last week and made a point of looking at the 2ft deep water at where I was in the wave pool. It was already cloudy and you couldn’t see the pool floor detail! I felt dirty. Then I came home to my TFP-aligned pool...

Is the area you’re trying to landscape the natural low point in your back garden? If it is, you could lay down the landscape fabric then use different sized river rocks to create a dry creek bed effect. Google for some pictures - they can look really sharp but it has to run through the low...

I realize this is an old thread but I can add that adding 25lbs of calcium chloride to an 18.5k gallon pool does, in fact, obliterate the chlorine from about 5/6ppm to zero. I read somewhere on another thread that increasing CH might have that affect on FC so had the pump run overnight to...

the grass is in and whilst I’m expecting landscaping to be ongoing, I think we’re done! we love it! Thank you to the tfp community for you answers an guidance along the way!

Maybe it’s a minor advantage but I think my split/dual main drains can offer me piece of mind if I’m traveling for a week or so. i can adjust the valve to pull from the main drains only in times of turbulent or windy weather to be confident that the wind can drop the water level below the...

Super impressive determination, Casey. I know you were out of options but not too many people would’ve taken this repair on themselves. You’ve probably got mad defined shoulders now, can add ‘extensive pool plumbing repairs‘ to your resume, and have picked up a young admirer. High five?

As others have said, there can be a lot of variation depending on the surroundings around your pool and you likely won’t know the actual pool water color until the pebble surface is in, the water’s in and you’ve had a few weeks of different weather. For instance, we went with ocean blue which we...

Hi there, you certainly want someone to ensure the equipment still has a lot of life and maybe you could even negotiate some kind of home warranty that covers it and other home systems into your purchase if the real estate market is tipping more towards the buyer there. I would worry too much...

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if you adjust your Valves to just pull water from the main drain and not from the skimmers then you could drop your water level below the tiles and still leave the pump running couldn’t you?

It didn’t seem to take that long to get the permits for that pool either, right? So fortunate with the pool being so close to the lake!

I feel your pain - we have two German pointers. One is a boisterous jumper who launches all four feet at you when you come through the door, and the other is a hunter. She’s brought home the normal birds and small mammals but also a couple of snakes, a bat, and a tortoise. she also constantly...