Quick question for everyone...We ran the plumbing to the pad and finished pressure testing. Two threaded pipes failed, one off a return and one for our water bond piece so glad we did the pressure testing! If all goes as planned we have someone coming to do our pool bottom tomorrow. It will be concrete/sand off a truck ready mix and then we'll be putting in the liner and filling on this nice long labor day weekend!!!!! If it rains tomorrow and the floor guy cancels we've decided we'll do it ourselves. I'm not sure which I prefer because it is costing about 4500 for labor/materials.
I have my TFPool test kit and speed stirrer but I've run out of time for researching. Can you give me some quick pointers on what tests to run first and where do I buy CYA? Are there other chemicals besides bleach that I will need on Day 1?
I know absolutely nothing about pool chemistry except what I've been trying to crash course learn between digging, plumbing, more digging and more digging. I never want to pick up a shovel again!!!!
Thanks again everyone for all the help along the way on our crazy idea to put in our own pool. Wow, it is a lot of work and as much as I hated the rain every day it helped soften the clay soil we have here and made the hand digging we had to do easier. When the 5 weeks of rain finally stopped I actually had to hose down the dirt pool floor to finish the last little bit.
I have my TFPool test kit and speed stirrer but I've run out of time for researching. Can you give me some quick pointers on what tests to run first and where do I buy CYA? Are there other chemicals besides bleach that I will need on Day 1?
I know absolutely nothing about pool chemistry except what I've been trying to crash course learn between digging, plumbing, more digging and more digging. I never want to pick up a shovel again!!!!
Thanks again everyone for all the help along the way on our crazy idea to put in our own pool. Wow, it is a lot of work and as much as I hated the rain every day it helped soften the clay soil we have here and made the hand digging we had to do easier. When the 5 weeks of rain finally stopped I actually had to hose down the dirt pool floor to finish the last little bit.