New Construction in Austin, TX

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JayBauman said:
I'm not an expert...but I have owned a few houses with natural stone finishes and with Acme brick facades. If your materials are natural stone and if they have not been sealed, then they can absorb some water and even transfer water to the stone next door. I'm not saying that this is what is happening, I'm just saying that this looks exactly like my last house when the rains would over flow my gutters occasionally.
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Thank you Jay.
So if there is no water contact, there should be no transfer, right?

The spill over falls directly to the pool step. I just don't know how that area get that wet if its not from water behind the wall (from the spa, or a back up from the skimmer).
This is a new wet spot I notice today.....pretty sure it wasn't like this before :uhh:
 
Tfbgtx said:
Thank you Jay.
So if there is no water contact, there should be no transfer, right?

The spill over falls directly to the pool step. I just don't know how that area get that wet if its not from water behind the wall (from the spa, or a back up from the skimmer).
This is a new wet spot I notice today.....pretty sure it wasn't like this before :uhh:
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Sorry you are dealing with a leak too. Mr. PB and the mason continue to tell me that since the stones are porous water will flow through - have they suggested turning off your waterfall to let it dry out and see what happens? The stone scuppers we had caused much moe splash and water transfer to the surrounding stone than the sheer descent that they switched to trying to solve the problem on the backside of my wall. Good luck, I know how frustrating this can be.
 
I was just wondering out loud if your scuppers were porous enough to allow transfer to the stone wall. I imagine that this isn't the case, but I echo Readyforapool and wonder what your wall looks like when the waterfall has been turned off for some time.
 
To add to the leak issue, the light in the spa is no longer working. Was working fine last week, but over the weekend it stared acting strange - started changing colors by itself, and turning off after only being on for 10 minutes. Now it doesn't work at all.

Told the PB the other day, but of course when he turned it on, it worked fine. I think it is finally dead, so that won't be the case next time. He thought because of the strange behavior that it was the system board failing, but I tend to think it is just the light. And I've seen other posts on here where people have had issues with these lights (Pentair Intellibright LED Spa light).
 
One other thing - your spillover is shaped like my scuppers were, the PB and mason showed me that the scuppers tended to let the water roll over the top but some water went under the edge and on to the wall, where the sheer descents shoot the water further out. See if you can get low enough to look under your spillover to see if that's happening, they maybe able to seal it. the other thing to note is your spillover is basically several pieces of stone that is pieced together, check your grout/mortar lines to see if there are gaps or areas where water could be seeping through.
 
If there isn't a drip edge on the spillway water will run back to the wall. To create a drip edge there needs to be a groove on the bottom side of the spillway about an inch back from the front edge. That will cause the water to drip off before running back to the wall.
 
Well, I think this explains it. And they had to remove the skimmer completely so water is below the tile line. Not too happy.

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What does this mean? I am not sure the I understand what was the problem by looking at the picture... But I am glad they are able to find the problem. Sorry that you had to go through this with a brand new pool. With my luck, I am probably the next one.
 

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Just wanted to add that we recently finished our pool and spa. We also have a Pentair Intellibright LED Spa light and had issues with it recently. PB replaced the light 10 times (that's right. 10 different sets) as it kept intermittently going out. PB thinks Pentair made a bad batch of spa lights, I doubted that, but they did get a different batch of lights shipped from another state and still couldn't get to work. Finally PB had to take spa light off the controller with pool lights and move to its own controller. So far this has worked, although lights are not synced, and a Pentair engineer is coming to figure out

Just wanted you to know if a new replacement does not work!
 
Warning: this is wifey screaming.
Urggggggggggggg....they took the coping over the entrance to skimmer AND the stone over the skimmer off.
The whole concrete encasing was demo'd out!!
So much for a brand new pool :(

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bongardjm said:
Just wanted to add that we recently finished our pool and spa. We also have a Pentair Intellibright LED Spa light and had issues with it recently. PB replaced the light 10 times (that's right. 10 different sets) as it kept intermittently going out. PB thinks Pentair made a bad batch of spa lights, I doubted that, but they did get a different batch of lights shipped from another state and still couldn't get to work. Finally PB had to take spa light off the controller with pool lights and move to its own controller. So far this has worked, although lights are not synced, and a Pentair engineer is coming to figure out

Just wanted you to know if a new replacement does not work!
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Thank you!!!
This is very helpful. We will ask PB about doing the same. thanks again for sharing.
 
RangerBob said:
That is so unfortunate. I can't even comes up with words of empathy - i would be SO frustrated. Its too bad one of the snakes didn't pop up on the PB :). -Karen
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Thank you Karen. The support and kind words on here has made it easier to deal with difficult things.

On the snakes note, I just saw one today in our driveway. I bet it wouldn't be that hard to summon one should the situation calls for it :p
 
So sorry, about that. Did they pressure test the lines before doing the gunite? I would make sure it does't leak before they encase it again. We are building now, and the lines were under pressure about five days before the gunite, with no loss.
 
jst said:
So sorry, about that. Did they pressure test the lines before doing the gunite? I would make sure it does't leak before they encase it again. We are building now, and the lines were under pressure about five days before the gunite, with no loss.
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I guess not, otherwise they would have known.
And that's the lesson learned - trust no contractor no matter how reputable they are. Manage them as you would a toddler.
We were out of the country for 2 weeks during the plumbing process. We did not know much then to ask all the questions. Came back to a first day of gunite and this is the end result.

PB will visit again tomorrow, we have a list to go over. This pressure test will be one.
I'm still concerned there might be other issues...can't quite put my finger on it but hoping I'm just being too paranoid....Sigh
 
That's odd, when my pool was built the inspector required a pressure test to hold pressure for several days before he would sign off on the plumbing. I would think Austin would have at least as strict pool codes.
 
With a skimmer not being under pressure, would that have come under the scope of a pressure test anyway?

Though I guess if they plug the pipe at the skimmer it would be. Unless the skimmer box was leaking as suggested above.
 
chiefwej said:
That's odd, when my pool was built the inspector required a pressure test to hold pressure for several days before he would sign off on the plumbing. I would think Austin would have at least as strict pool codes.
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Ours as well, and the inspection approval sticker went right ON the gauge sticking out of the pool plumbing at the soon to be pool edge. Was under pressure for several days.
 

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