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We also have a can not find water leak. We've tried the red dye trick at every place the pool walls are penetrated, and no leakage was evident. Our construction is a concrete bottom pad with two drains back to the pump room, concrete cinder block side walls, then stucco covering the blocks and...

Our pool is oval shaped and approx. 16' wide and 30' long and a uniform 4'-6" deep. It is 10 seasons old. It was built using concrete blocks which were then covered with stucco and then 1" sq. ceramic tiles. It has 3 lights, 2 skimmers, and 8 jets. It is a chrorine based chemistry. It has...

Please do not hi-jack another's thread....here is your own thread. Our pool is in Cancun, Mexico. It is an in-ground with a flat bottom and uniform depth of 4' 6". It is oval shaped. It is made from concrete block with stucco and then ceramic tiles. It has 2 bottom drains and 2 skimmer pots...

Our pool this morning.......This pool is located in the garden of our home in Cancun, Mexico. The water here is very hard. The pool water has been in the pool since it was finished almost 3 summers ago. In the past we used Muriatic acid and a brush to scrub the "bathtub" ring off of the pool...

Tropical storm Ida is heading towards Cancun where we live. It's been raining sideways for the past hour. The pool is now about to spill over into the garden. I can't pump it's level down again becuase the pump room had 2-3" of water in it and it's at garden level. All the surronding streets are...

We really enjoy our pool and garden here in Cancun. We spend most of our waking hours in the garden. We have our meals on our covered patio, swim and spend time trimming back the garden plants. It is our favorite place and gives us much comfort and peace of mind. We host a lot of parties in it...

Just got my Trouble Free Pool Test Kit TF-100 I live in Cancun, Mexico. My pool water is clear and clean looking and the PH and Chlorine levels are checked every other day and adjusted on an as needed basis. I now have this data from the kit but do not know how to interpret it. Could someone...

In Cancun the water systems are different that most of the places in the USA that I have lived in. Potable water is delivered to your home only in the evening hours and for a set amount of time. It is delivered via a pipe through a meter on the outside wall of our property. From the meter the...

During the pool build we also wanted to replace our existing patio. It was pitched wrong and everytime it got wet the water would puddle in the middle of it. This caused the tile to become discolored. We also had to replace the driveway because the the weight of the back hoe destroyed cracked...

This is a kind of a regress in my story back to Part 1. I thought more detail was interesting enough due to the peculiar problems with digging a large hole in the Cancun area. Once you dig about 18" of top soil out you hit solid rock. The backhoe that the PB used had a attachment on it that was...

The pool is flat bottomed with a uniform in depth 4'-6". It is about 30' long x 16' width at it's broadest point. We wanted it deep enough to swim in, but shallow enough, for guest's to stand up in and hold on to a drink. We also wanted to play volley ball and didn't want a sloping bottom...

Part One of our pool build at our home in Cancun. First picture is our yard at the start of the project ] The heavy equipment arrives: The digging starts: The hole takes shape: The slab is poured, bottom drains positioned, re-bars and first course of concrete blocks: Pool side walls take...

I am a retired American living in Cancun, Mexico where I built this pool which was finished late last June. ('08) About a week ago the piping immediately coming out of my pump blew out! The PB's plumber had not screwed the connection all the way down into the pump housing and therefore after...

Hola to everyone. My wife and I retired to Cancun, Mexico one year ago. We bought a home and the first project we undertook was to add a pool. It is oval in shape, with roman stairs at one end and is uniform in depth. The measurements are 15'6" wide x 30' long x 4' 6" deep inground. The pool is...