New Pool Build Fort Worth TX
- Thread starter Kimber1
- Start date
Mcow
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- Jul 5, 2017
- 319
- Pool Size
- 22000
- Surface
- Plaster
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
- Apr 23, 2017
- 2,400
- Pool Size
- 22000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Looks so good Kim! Will the PVC bubbler pipes be cut and be flush with the plaster? Or will the pipe stick up to the waterline?
Also what type of dog is that? Looks like a blue heeler with some mix?
Also what type of dog is that? Looks like a blue heeler with some mix?
KIMBER! That looks awesome! Such great detailing going on!
LOL Paul! You make my job easy!
THANKS!
Kim
LOL Paul! You make my job easy!
THANKS!Kim
KIMBER! That looks awesome! Such great detailing going on!
LOL Paul! You make my job easy!
Kim
Looking great!
With the voice of KimKats
"Check the measurements now"
Thank you everyone! It's really coming together now. When I got home and saw the deck forms in person it really pulled the vision/rendering together. It's amazing how much the pool is looking exactly like the renderings our PB did. Even that notch by the top stair and the pool coping is in the rendering.
And we measured
But I have a question... is the size of the pool supposed to be measured from waterline tile to waterline tile? In other words, if our length is supposed to be 32', is that supposed to measure 32' from the inside (on the waterline tile), or from the middle of the coping, or the outside of the coping? GingerJay... The PVC bubbler pipes will be cut down and be flush with the plaster. They leave them sticking out until the plaster is done, and then cut everything down. And the dog in the picture is an Australian Kelpie and we think he has some Australian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler) in him too. He has the spotted paws and part of his chest is spotted as well, like the Blue Heeler/Cattle Dog, but the rest of his coloring is pure Kelpie
. We rescued him from a shelter about 4 years ago. We almost changed his name to Houdini, because he would escape our 6 foot high fence all the time when we first brought him home. It took us several weeks to catch him in the act and see how he was doing it. He was getting a running start and leaping up until his back paws would catch on the cross beam and that would give him the leverage to get over the rest of the way. We had to get very creative to keep him in the yard! lol. Luckily he doesn't try to escape anymore. We also have a rescue bully/black mouth cur mix (she is the sweetest dog EVER... we've had her for about 8 years), a Catahoula/Great Dane/maybe Greyhound mix (she was abandoned as a puppy when the people who had her moved and left her behind), and about a year ago we rescued a German Shepherd who had been roaming the streets for months and was just about at death's door. I'm hoping we get the concrete decking poured today. The PB said they are trying for today, but it could be tomorrow. And fingers crossed we get plaster next week
This has been a fast build, and we are so pleased with the PB and the quality of their work, and their crew! If we get plaster next week it will be four weeks from when they started the excavation, so a very fast build process... which makes me very happy! It's hard not having a yard when you have four dogs, lol.
Measure-to ME it should be water! It should be from water line tile to water line tile. If depth it should be from floor of pool to the middle of the skimmer.
Kim
Kim
Hopefully you got the iAquaLink. If you did, make sure to get the 8 device version (it's a software upgrade that can be applied over the internet). We used the 8 and hooked up a stenner chlorine and muratic acid pump to the control panel. Over the last two months we've tuned in the Chlorine and Acid which makes the pool management much easier. Adding acid and chlorine daily became a pain and we'd only add the chemicals once per day. Now we add the chlorine four times a day at different times, seems to be working great so far.
All of this can be controlled from our iPad when we need to make adjustments. Just set the runtime on the device using the iPad.
The stenner pumps support a 24V connection that is the same voltage that is kicked out by the iAquaLink controls.
With all of the rain that we've had lately, we haven't had to alter the chemical flow. We're in Frisco, not far from Fort Worth. Our neighbors have been shocking weekly, we haven't been.
All of this can be controlled from our iPad when we need to make adjustments. Just set the runtime on the device using the iPad.
The stenner pumps support a 24V connection that is the same voltage that is kicked out by the iAquaLink controls.
With all of the rain that we've had lately, we haven't had to alter the chemical flow. We're in Frisco, not far from Fort Worth. Our neighbors have been shocking weekly, we haven't been.
OOPS! lol, I should have realized you meant the decking!
Hi there! We actually moved to Fort Worth from the Frisco/Little Elm area... we loved it there! But the cost of buying a house was insane a couple of years ago and we kept getting outbid (with most people bidding way above the appraisal value or offering cash bids), so we ended up having to look outside of that area
We actually ended up getting the Aqualink PDA/PS4 controller. We looked into iAqualink and spoke to our PB about it and decided to keep the PDA/PS4 for the time being. We can upgrade at anytime to the iAqualink and we had limited funds that we could use to upgrade things. At the time we thought upgrading to the variable speed pump was a better use of the money.
Can you send me a PM on how to use the stenner pumps? I'm very interested in adding those on if they work! I haven't heard anything about them (not that I have been looking).
We have decking!!!! When I first saw the color last night I was seriously second guessing our choice. It looked really dark and solid, with no variation in color. The guy who poured the deck and did the color told my husband it would lighten a bit as the concrete dried, but I wasn’t too sure. However, my husband sent pictures this morning and it really did lighten up, and now there is pattern and dimension coming through and it looks sooo good. I can’t wait to see it in person tonight.
I’m attaching pictures of when it was first poured and the pictures my husband sent me this morning. It rained last night and early this morning which got rid of some of the salt, but we will wash the rest of the salt off today.
Here it is when it was first poured... see how dark and solid the color is?
And here it is this morning. See the change in color and the pattern/dimension coming through? That dark circle in this pic is some standing water from the rain
I’m attaching pictures of when it was first poured and the pictures my husband sent me this morning. It rained last night and early this morning which got rid of some of the salt, but we will wash the rest of the salt off today.
Here it is when it was first poured... see how dark and solid the color is?
And here it is this morning. See the change in color and the pattern/dimension coming through? That dark circle in this pic is some standing water from the rain
- Apr 23, 2017
- 2,400
- Pool Size
- 22000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Mcow
0
- Jul 5, 2017
- 319
- Pool Size
- 22000
- Surface
- Plaster
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
That looks great! We almost went with something very similar. I think it ties the stone and decking together very nicely.
Very nice!! I think I'd call that color Sadle brown.
Maddie
What a difference time and rinsing does! It is really turning out pretty!
Kim
Thanks everyone! The PB said that the color of the deck will continue to change as it cures. Today the crew is out doing yard clean up. Still hoping for plaster next week (fingers crossed!). We also noticed that the slope in our yard is going to push water and dirt onto the lower deck landing. We have asked the PB to grade the yard so that we don't have to worry about future rain flooding the deck area.
The PB and their entire crew have been awesome and we are extremely pleased with our choice. I've been recommending them to everyone who asks
It's amazing how decking starts to make the whole project feel real. It looks amazing!