First off: I'm new here - I've been lurking for months while our pool (first one, ever, for me...) has been being built. The comments and advice on this forum are awesome....
The pool now has water in it and we can't wait for the weather to warm up for our first swim! We're using the spa for now, so I can't really complain.
Anyway, our PB had given us a brochure for LED programmable/color changing lights (two in the pool/one in the spa) but then told us that since we ultimately decided on a a medium grey plaster ("medium Tahoe blue", in pool plaster terms), their experience has been that the LEDs don't give out enough light at night in grey plastered pools and customers complain...standard lights were installed in both the pool and spa.
So while we have a blue color cover over the standard pool lights in the main pool (2 500 watt lights), we don't have the changing LED lighting that we'd kind of hoped for.
My question: is he accurate in his observations?
Quite frankly, he's been honest with us to date, and his decisions during the entire build have been sound and well-grounded. I guess I just want to "double check" on this one...as he did say if we really wanted LED, he'd change out the standard lights...but he was certain we wouldn't be happy since they don't throw the light as far in a grey plastered pool...
Our pool's free formed...about 22 x 40 and 8 feet deep....
The pool now has water in it and we can't wait for the weather to warm up for our first swim! We're using the spa for now, so I can't really complain.
Anyway, our PB had given us a brochure for LED programmable/color changing lights (two in the pool/one in the spa) but then told us that since we ultimately decided on a a medium grey plaster ("medium Tahoe blue", in pool plaster terms), their experience has been that the LEDs don't give out enough light at night in grey plastered pools and customers complain...standard lights were installed in both the pool and spa.
So while we have a blue color cover over the standard pool lights in the main pool (2 500 watt lights), we don't have the changing LED lighting that we'd kind of hoped for.
My question: is he accurate in his observations?
Quite frankly, he's been honest with us to date, and his decisions during the entire build have been sound and well-grounded. I guess I just want to "double check" on this one...as he did say if we really wanted LED, he'd change out the standard lights...but he was certain we wouldn't be happy since they don't throw the light as far in a grey plastered pool...
Our pool's free formed...about 22 x 40 and 8 feet deep....