Update / Still need help: New House / Old Pool Complete Remodel

[Phasers]

Hi all,

I posted a couple months back about my preliminary plans to remodel a poorly maintained pool in the new home I just purchased, however I wanted to run my plan past the experts in this community before finalizing them.

I am looking at doing the following to "fix up" the ~25,000 gallon pool:

• Pour new 3" Concrete Pad
• Remove Heater Entirely (no Spa, don't see the need for just the pool)
• Replace Main Pump with Variable Speed Pump (Pentair 011028 IntelliFlo Variable Speed Pool Pump 3HP)
• Replace Mechanical Controller with newer Intellicenter one (Pentair IntelliCenter 5PIC60 Kit - Pool only with Load Center and IC60 SWG)
• Replace Pool Light (Pentair 601001 IntelliBrite 5g Color LED Pool Light)
• Replace Pool Filter and Backwash Valve with new ones (Pentair FNS Plus 60 sqft D.E. Filter 180009 and a Hi-Flow Multiport valve 261142) - [not cartridge as multiple people locally have recommend against it and I am familiar with DE]
• Resurface pool with mini-pebble finish (Aqua Blue Mini)
• Replace all pool tiling at water line with 6x6 tile (Azul Del Mar)
• Rip out all coping/flagstone and replace with new Oklahoma flagstone and Mastic (I have to match existing stones which will not be removed)
• Redo all plumbing
• Add plumbed water fill line tied into water hose faucet so I can fill pool without needing to run a hose each time. (Abandoned auto-fill idea)
• Add Overflow drain to pool (basically a pipe with a grate)
• Add a water feature (perhaps build up the back wall and do some small waterfalls, or build up a weeping rock wall -- ideas welcome, pics in my last post). Need something to circulate some more water and give some white noise.

My questions are:

1. Does all this look good / am I missing anything?
2. I was thinking about replacing the booster pump to the pressure cleaner robot, but I got some advice to ditch the booster pump altogether and go with a smarter robotic cleaner such as this Polaris one.
   1. Would these still need a booster pump?
   2. What happens to the booster pump line if there is no booster pump?

Thanks again for everything!

 

[Phasers]

Friendly bump for visibility.

 

[rphpool]

The only thing I would do is to the: Add plumbed water fill line tied into water hose faucet so I can fill pool without needing to run a hose each time. (Abandoned auto-fill idea)
Your idea will work ,but I would add some sort of timer to shut the water off. There will be a time you turn it on and forget about it until your pool overflows and your water bill sky rockets
Something as simple as this will work:

Melnor Mechanical Aqua Timer 3010-4 - The Home Depot

Help reduce the possibility of over watering, with the Melnor Mechanical Aqua Timer. It allows you to set the amount of time you want to water, from 10-minutes to 2-hours and it automatically shuts off.

www.homedepot.com

Orbit 1-Port Single Dial Timer-62056 - The Home Depot
kind of autofill once you determine your evaporation rate. just set and forget

 

[kimkats]

Solid plan right there!

For the booster pump line you just cap it a both ends.

Now lets talk about one of my fav waterline tiles! When the boxes get there you really need to go through them. Pick out the extra pretty ones to put in the eye sight places and the ugly ones to hide so they don't get used LOL

Kim

 

[Oly]

No need for the booster pump with a stand alone robot.
No need for the old cleaner line so you could cap it as Kim suggested or re-plumb it into another return line.
The timer on the fill line is a wise suggestion.
I agree, I too am a DE filter man.
Post up your plumbing plans for free advice from the ol timers here.

 

[Phasers]

Thank you all for the replies!!!

Will definitely add a timer so I dont forget about it (happened to me with the hose last week!).

Any ideas for something worthwhile to do with the cleaner line since it is there and running plumbing is expensive -- kind of want to do something with it...

 

[Flying Tivo]

You can convert to a return.

 

[kimkats]

Do like @Oly suggested and make it into another return. You can also put a valve on it and turn it into a sprinkler like seen here: Skippy's New Fountain

 

[Phasers]

Update, ended up going with the 011056 VSF pump because it was cheaper, and had a $100 rebate available on top of that.