Fiberglass - The build in New Jersey

[Wolfepack88]

Add 5 ppm chlorine daily and brush it around.

Going to have a heck of time estimating how much water is really in the pool to calculate that 5 ppm.

 

[crimson avenger]

Going to have a heck of time estimating how much water is really in the pool to calculate that 5 ppm.

Not that hard. Measure the width, depth, and length of the currently filled section. Use this calculator to calculate volume.

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[Wolfepack88]

Not that hard. Measure the width, depth, and length of the currently filled section. Use this calculator to calculate volume.

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Right simple math, the complication is the slope of the pool and maybe a foot of water on one end and a few inches on the other. Will just have to guess then its simple math a simple volume calculation.

 

[crimson avenger]

Right simple math, the complication is the slope of the pool and maybe a foot of water on one end and a few inches on the other. Will just have to guess then its simple math a simple volume calculation.

Nope. Easy. Just enter 0 for the shallow end.

 

[Wolfepack88]

Skimmer install and the goop in the pool. They pumped out the spa to cut the light, returns, jets, intake (forget what you call that). So some beginning progress.

 

[Wolfepack88]

Ok two more boring pictures. Initial plumbing of returns and intake for spa, and initial returns and main drains for pool plus my garbage water. Now wait for inspector and once that is done, backfill, fill and rest of plumbing can commence. So no more progress this week unless inspection is done between in next two days. With our last name, never gonna happen.

 

[crimson avenger]

Don’t spend much time worrying about preventing algae at this point. If you have the time, go ahead and add the 5 ppm daily and brush it around. But if other things are going on, deal with that. You’ll eventually do a SLAM once you get the whole thing filled and you’ll get it taken care of.

It’s gonna happen. Just slower than we all want. I’m still waiting for the proper size of my autocover…. Over a year later!

Love your pool color. Gonna say it time and time again. It’s the color I wish I had!

 

[Wolfepack88]

Don’t spend much time worrying about preventing algae at this point. If you have the time, go ahead and add the 5 ppm daily and brush it around. But if other things are going on, deal with that. You’ll eventually do a SLAM once you get the whole thing filled and you’ll get it taken care of.

It’s gonna happen. Just slower than we all want. I’m still waiting for the proper size of my autocover…. Over a year later!

Love your pool color. Gonna say it time and time again. It’s the color I wish I had!

Wow what cover brand are you using? I am getting a cover pools autocover with tracks on the surface as there wasn't a real good way of doing coping on the spa with the cover without creating a pool deck and coping much higher resulting in a very steep first step into the pool which was deemed hazardous by all of us. We are ok with the surface tracks on the coping as they are pretty flush.

On step 6 of 100 I think. Slow progress I'm sure, just anxious to really get going but then again others have had their pool delayed until 2022 and I'm already hearing some builders are into 2023.

 

[crimson avenger]

Wow what cover brand are you using? I am getting a cover pools autocover with tracks on the surface as there wasn't a real good way of doing coping on the spa with the cover without creating a pool deck and coping much higher resulting in a very steep first step into the pool which was deemed hazardous by all of us. We are ok with the surface tracks on the coping as they are pretty flush.

On step 6 of 100 I think. Slow progress I'm sure, just anxious to really get going but then again others have had their pool delayed until 2022 and I'm already hearing some builders are into 2023.

Let me see if I can make this story short.
First cover came in the late summer. Too big.
Ordered new one this spring. Wrong color.
Ordered another one that showed up yesterday. Wrong size again - even bigger.
So now they need to order the correct size and cover… this is the 4th cover the builder has ordered.
Complete dumpster fire.

 

[Wolfepack88]

Ok, my pool build is supposed to now pick up pace with PB scheduled to be here all week this week with many of the back delays for prior build cleared up. Pressure test tomorrow morning on main drains and then they will begin to really back fill and add water beyond the foot of green water in there now. However I asked if they planned to pump out the 1ft of green water and they said no, they will add shock to it. However I noticed today hundreds of tadpoles in that water and I'm thinking of asking them to pump out that water now and clean out the Crud and then add then begin to add water and backfill? Does it make sense to do it as there is maybe a foot of water in the deep end and the water doesn't even fully reach the shallow end so I can't imagine a reall concern of any shifting, am I right? Should I insist on them pumping out and cleaning out the tadpoles, etc?

 

[wireform]

If it's simply for their convenience and not a concern I would stand the point and get rid of it. If you start with clean water you can swim the next day but not with the nasty stuff .

 

[Wolfepack88]

Well, moving along slowly but moving. Backfill is almost done. Need more stone so some trench work for plumbing and pad form laid out. For anyone getting an Leisure Ultimate Pool, getting that gravel packed under the ledge and spa right and avoiding any voids is painstaking work that definitely requires patience and a mindset of wanting to do it right. Spot on level after one spot was a tad low and they worked a good hour to get it right and now its dead level. Appreciated that attention to detail.

 

[Wolfepack88]

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[Wolfepack88]

The pad form (I know exciting, but what the heck)

 

[wireform]

The pad form (I know exciting, but what the heck)

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Which way is the exhaust from the generator going. It can be very hot and not sure you want it that close.

 

[Wolfepack88]

Which way is the exhaust from the generator going. It can be very hot and not sure you want it that close.

It's ducted to the side, but very good point. Thank you.

 

[Wolfepack88]

Pad poured.

 

[jonnyd91]

Is the panel pad cemented into the ground to? (I assume its not screwed to the concrete form wood?)

Your skies look like my skies as my phone blows up with tornado warnings

 

[Wolfepack88]

Is the panel pad cemented into the ground to? (I assume its not screwed to the concrete form wood?)

Your skies look like my skies as my phone blows up with tornado warnings

Cemented in. Yeah, sky is ugly!!

 

[Wolfepack88]

Pipe trench. Apparently gravel is gold dust because that's not coming til Monday and the pool plumbing guy is annoyed. He wants to finish backfilling and start plumbing the pool. Temporary sump pump suspended from wood beam in pool to circulate water. PB had added shock in and I told him from now on I will put in liquid chlorine. Once pool is filled higher I will be able to reach in and begin testing and kill the algae, but will have to brush the algae on bottom if it already has the biofilm to protect it.