Buy grout locally

[vballz]

Alright. First post. No pics as it is late and dark.

Repairing the tile and mortar under the coping. However, I will have to go to a big box store for the grout. Lowes or Home Depot. The expert at HD sold me Fusion Pro , but now reading online, says not to be used in pools. I do have a pool store in town, but, gawd, scared of their above retail pricing.

Any suggestions of what I can purchase locally...?

I've aleady started building up the mortar below the coping. The attached picture does not show what I have done to clean up and dig out the loose mortar.

I'm hoping to have this 8 foot section ready and be able to refill the pool in 2 days, as I dont want a green swamp.

 

[duraleigh]

I am not sure what I am looking at. Are you replacing tile? Is the brown stuff old thin set? What are the white spots?

 

[kimkats]

I have someone that knows this stuff backwards and forwards. I will give him a call and see what he has to say.

Kim

 

[vballz]

Thanks Kim.

The brown is old thinset, which I have since chiseled out and replaced. The white spots are the little rubber? that holds the tile together during install.

 

[vballz]

This is what it looks like today, after putting on a layer of thinset...called Custom Flexbond, from Home Depot.

I need to put on an additional base layer and flatten and square things up, at which point I will lay the tile down.

 

[blakeusa]

DAL tile stores sell good quality materials and the staff knows how to do tile. They have stores nationally.

 

[vballz]

I'll see if there is one in Springfield MO. I'm south closer to Branson. THANKS!

 

[vballz]

Heading to DALTile.

 

[PrehistoricPool]

VBalz, I can't help you with the question you asked, I will leave that to others. But I noticed a mistake in yoru digital signature that could give youa hard time down the road.

Your pool cannot possibly be 30,000 gallons. If you base your chemicals on that you will overshoot every time. Even if it was 5 feet deep everywhere, it would only be 16,830 gallons. Here is a handy pool volume calculator, you should try to work out a better estimate so you can do your chemicals right: https://www.swimmingpool.com/testing-water/pool-volume-calculator

 

[vballz]

VBalz, I can't help you with the question you asked, I will leave that to others. But I noticed a mistake in yoru digital signature that could give youa hard time down the road.

Your pool cannot possibly be 30,000 gallons. If you base your chemicals on that you will overshoot every time. Even if it was 5 feet deep everywhere, it would only be 16,830 gallons. Here is a handy pool volume calculator, you should try to work out a better estimate so you can do your chemicals right: https://www.swimmingpool.com/testing-water/pool-volume-calculator

Thank you, I will check this out.

Checked it, roughly 13, 500. Hmm, wonder where I got 30,000 gallon s from.

Thank you very much.

 

[PrehistoricPool]

Thank you, I will check this out.

Checked it, roughly 13, 500. Hmm, wonder where I got 30,000 gallon s from.

Thank you very much.

No problem. I'm originally from Springfield, glad to help out another Ozarks boy!