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Hubby decided to build an Outdoor kitchen himself instead of contracting it out. He's been working hard and making great progress. Cabinets are oak with a cherry oak stain and water sealer. The bottom will be stucco-he is using something called tuff stuff which I understand to be a premixed...

We've had some bad rainstorms in the Houston area and will continue to get rain the rest of the week. Our fairly new pool was a bit cloudy this morning. The first two days of the storm it was crystal clear, but with last nights rain storm some of our deck drains got covered with grass...

Ok still learning to balance our pool water. I've been thinking about adding borates to the pool to help stabilize the pH and bleach additions. The pH continues to rise to the 8.2 level after 5 days and over a 3 week period I have used 6 bottles of 8.25% bleach (121oz) Todays readings were...

Pool is finally done and we are now managing the pool water. These are the results from my test pH: 7.5 Cl:2.0 FC:4.5 CC:0 TC: 4.5 TA:70 CH: 140 CYA:30 Here are results from about 3wks ago when the CYA was finally giving a read out. Pool was still technically under PB care...though they...

New Pool build with new plaster, it's been 7 days since the pool was completely filled and acid start-up. I took a quick pH and Chlorine reading 2 days ago and pH was 8 and Cl was 0. I contacted Mr.PB and he came out to vacuum the pool, added more acid yesterday afternoon and filled the Rainbow...

PB just dropped off all the equipment accessories and the box has a Pentair Rainbow 78 Test kit. I just ordered the TF 100 kit last night. Since the Rainbow kit is a brand new, I don't want to throw it out and was wondering what components can be used from the Rainbow kit along with the TF 100...

We are currently building a pool and I went out today to look at the sheer descents and noticed that they were Aqua sheer descents. We were told by Mr.PB that we were getting the Pentair Magicfalls and I was wondering if the aquasheer is the same thing as the Pentair magicfalls. When I did a...

We have finally signed a contract and our construction process begins. Here is the final design of our pool Pool specs: GUNITE POOL 22ft. x 36 ft., 674 sq. ft. Angular Pool, 119 ln ft depth of 3 1/2 ft to 6 ft 3/8 in. rebar on 8 in. 12 x 12 inch box beam containing 4- 1/2 inch rebar...

We are getting very close to our design and looking at pool finishes. We've looked at diamond brite, pebble tec, wet edge and jewelscapes. I've been looking for reviews in the jewelscape classic line and did not find much. Does anyone about the durability if this product when compared to...

Hi all, we are currently in the design phase of our pool building process. We have met with 2 PB so far. I have scheduled 8 altogether...not sure if this is overkill but I want to see what options/services there are since we are new to this pool building process. For our pool we want a very...