Awesome idea. Sounds like a great place to relax and read a book while consuming an adult beverage
New Build in West Houston Area - PB
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Awesome idea. Sounds like a great place to relax and read a book while consuming an adult beverage
BattleOfYakima
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Is it an optical illusion due to the angle or is the closer side of the pit shallower than the far side?
BattleOfYakima
TFP Guide
beautiful! pit is shown without optical illusion in this photo, i'm good now, thanks
water is really looking nice and finally showing off your plaster, tile, and rock choices
congrats to you both indeed
water is really looking nice and finally showing off your plaster, tile, and rock choices
congrats to you both indeed
"I was so lucky I was able to salvage this wood from a seamans chapel in Nantucket. And for the counters I chose a Bolivian wormwood. I widdled it from beachwood. Theres a lot of benjamins to be made. I figured who better to follow after than JC himself."
- Jun 18, 2015
- 712
- Pool Size
- 11000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
And the pool water looks like it's perfect now. How's water chemistry balancing coming along?
Seems to be going ok. TA creeps up over time to about 120 so I add acid to try to get it down to 100 and then run the water falls to bring the PH back up from the acid. Chlorine consumption seems to be around 3 gpd to keep 4-5 ppm. I was going to test the CYA for the first time tonight (a week after we added it) to see if we achieved the goal 40 ppm or not.
Quick question for the collective... when I hook up the acid and chlorine feeders, would it be a more efficient use of chlorine to have it primarily dispense the ~3 gallons during the night time hours, or evenly dispense it throughout the day?
(Just thinking about how much of it would get cooked off by the sun...)
It seems to be the consensus that an evening bleach addition is best to allow it to have all night to work free of sunlight.
Thanks! I suspected that was the case. I'll have it start dumping in an hour before sunset then each day...
BattleOfYakima
TFP Guide
Any precautions to avoid simultaneous addition of acid and bleach? Not sure if this is a valid concern at slow additions speeds or not. Just a curiosity for you and/or the experts.
I suspect it wouldn't be an issue - a trickle into a 60gpm stream of both... if it would be an issue, I could have acid dump through the back wall system and chlorine through the front wall system. I'm curious what the experts think on this as well...
I would think that the chemicals would be diluted enough with the trickle into the stream that it wouldnt matter
Wow, very nice. How often to you have to fill your Stenner tank? Any thought of going to a SWG?
