I think I will call NPT directly. My challenge is that I will be on a flight first thing in the morning and I won't land until late morning Central (Texas) time. But my conversation with the Project Manager this afternoon did not give me the warm and fuzzies.
The project manager and landscape crew were out working today so as they were wrapping up, I walked outside to where he and Bob were talking (the dreaded "here comes the wife" moment) and said, <PM name insert here> - "Did Bob tell you I had a lot of questions about the plaster? What is this about dyeing the stonescapes again 3 days later? Is it because we chose the black? First he said, let me show you as he pulled out his phone and then said, "Oh I only have the finished picture here (which was very nice of a black stonescapes job). Then I think he got confused between Stonescapes and plaster and he back tracked several times and then told me all Stonescapes colors are done that way and I said "really? I'm on a pool forum and I specifically know and have seen the Stonescapes color such as Tropics Blue get sprayed on with the color and they didn't have to go back and dye it" Then he hemmed and hawed a bit. I followed up to say - "You realize this is very important to me - right? You are going to be here supervising. Out of everything that has been done on this pool - this is when I most want you here. Out of all the redo's this one will be nearly impossible to redo if it's done wrong. I am making myself clear right?"
Then we talked about brushing and he said we should start brushing right after the fill. Then we showed him the whale brush which he hasn't seen and he thought it was ingenious and began taking photos of it so he could show other people....
-Karen
So for the heck of it - my fill water readings:
FC 2.5
CC 1.0
TC 3.5
PH > 8.2
TA > 120
