- Jun 6, 2020
- 39
- Pool Size
- 17400
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
View attachment 383729I’m presuming this is the Autofill line? Any reason they attach it to a hose bib instead of the main water line?
I guess I was just curious if this was a typical way to connect the autofill line. It just looks kind of janky and I’m concerned about it freezing (vs connecting to the main water line coming from the street which I guess would cost more).
Mine is set up just like yours. Although I do have a backflow valve.I guess I was just curious if this was a typical way to connect the autofill line. It just looks kind of janky and I’m concerned about it freezing (vs connecting to the main water line coming from the street which I guess would cost more).
Not sure about the backflow valve requirement. I’ll ask about that.
Wow travertine over concrete... almost no one does that around here. Did you spec that in your build or is this just how your builder does it? I would have leaned further towards travertine if it wasn't over a sand base like all the builders do it in DFW (well seems like all the ones I talked to anyway).Sorry it's been a while! I've commented this on other threads, but January and a lot of February was a wet muddy mess for our yard, so the decking contractors weren't able to have consistent weather to pour concrete. They finally poured near the end of February and the masonry crew has been out for the last week putting down travertine (QDI - Philadelphia). It looks gorgeous and we're hoping they will be complete by next week at the latest (still need to put the retaining wall on the back part of the decking). After that it's clean up and pebbletec and hopefully equipment turn on time!
My builder, from Tomball TX, also installed my travertine over a concrete base, but they also install a base of polymorphic sand, on top of the concrete base, for the travertine to sit on.Wow travertine over concrete... almost no one does that around here. Did you spec that in your build or is this just how your builder does it? I would have leaned further towards travertine if it wasn't over a sand base like all the builders do it in DFW (well seems like all the ones I talked to anyway).
Wow travertine over concrete... almost no one does that around here. Did you spec that in your build or is this just how your builder does it? I would have leaned further towards travertine if it wasn't over a sand base like all the builders do it in DFW (well seems like all the ones I talked to anyway).
My builder, from Tomball TX, also installed my travertine over a concrete base, but they also install a base of polymorphic sand, on top of the concrete base, for the travertine to sit on.
Man! Does that sound familiar!! Just had pool and decking finished in Jan. Throughout, every contractor wanted to dig and run the line 100' to back of property to the lake, which is on incline, so ditch would be very deep at end and have to come out the bank side. Every time, I showed them the plans that it simply needed to go 20' to the side of property and to the ditch that drains the property line out the the front drainage ditch. Put the pop up there, I kept saying. If hadn't been there 2 or 3 times by luck, that long ditch would have been dug.The other major thing is that it seems like the drains on the pool decking don't seem to go anywhere... this is after me repeatedly asking the builder and the decking contractors to make sure it was in and has a separate line to a pop up at the front. As far as I can tell, the pipes don't seem to lead out of the decking anywhere (or at least it wasn't obvious to the construction manager or myself). He's got it on his priority list to make sure it gets done/verified, but I have no idea how that would be missed.
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