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  1. Ukie

    Travertine pool decking and coping, freeze/thaw cycles, travertinemart - 7 winters later!

    Almost every year I get couple questions about my travertine deck, problems with travertine coping and decking in freeze/thaw cycles, etc. It's a show off time, let me walk you through my deck, 7 winters after construction. Watch This Video! Overall, we are really happy with travertine...
  2. Ukie

    Is my SWG dead? Troublshooting SWG output.

    Within last couple weeks I've notices that I can't crank FC levels (~2) to the values I had last years (4-5) . Longer and longer (up to 24hrs) SWG runs did not help either. So here we go to troubleshot SWG output. I think steps I took might be useful for other forum members. 1. Make sure...
  3. Ukie

    Cleaning waterline on a vinyl liner

    What to use? Vinyl cleaners from auto supply store or any big box store, or enzyme cleaners (such as Orb-3 A011-000-1PT Enzyme Cleaner Concentrate Bottle for Pools http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C3YJ1XI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER) or anything else? Any advise...
  4. Ukie

    Pentair Intellibrite 5G Color LED Issues. What's next?

    I have two Pentair Intellibrite 5G Color LED lights installed last fall during my pool build. This spring one light failed right away(lost brightness, color intensity) and almost within couple weeks second light failed as well - lost blue color and brightness. Both lights had fogging inside...
  5. Ukie

    How to add salt to the pool - "Bucket" method.

    Here's my "bucket" method: At the end: no salt going to the floor, everything gets mixed with pool water, no salt on pool deck, no sharp objects cutting salt bags close to the pool (liner). Just light pool sweep to make sure no salt sits on the liner.
  6. Ukie

    Feedback on steel walls manufacturer needed

    My PB is using steel walls manufactured by International Swimming Pools, Inc from New Brunswick, NJ, http://www.internationalswimmingpools.com Any feedback on the manufacturer?
  7. Ukie

    LED Lights: 110V vs 12V

    Installing 2 Pentair IntelliBrite 5G Color LED lights in a lagoon shaped pool. Trying to decide on 110V or 12V models. Any pros and cons? Unfortunately Pentair doesn't have light output listed under spec section at http://www.pentairpool.com/pool-pro/pro ... led-74.htm so it's difficult to find...
  8. Ukie

    Lagoon Pool Plumbing and Flow

    First of all thanks for the great forum and tons of helpful information! Way to go all the supporters and contributors! Being lurking here for a while and decided to pull a trigger on IG lagoon shape pool (steel walls, vinyl liner). Here's proposed returns/skimmers location and flow. Is there...