pool just got pebbletec today!
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Look what I got today...early Mother's Day Present...
Comments (16)After having work down on our front and back landscaping here for the last two months- those rocks look pretty cool! What a great MD idea. I asked DH if we could NOT go out to do something and just stay home instead and enjoy our gardens at home instead. We have lots of roses and other plants too in pots we can plant up that weekend. He made me a MD tea party (cooked all the food and set it up himself) one year and we'll do that again as we all enjoyed it so much. we're a tea party family! Here are some pics of our recent landscaping projects on my Picture Trail. The gazebo in our front yard was our Valentine's Day Wedding anniversary gift to each other. I think the new front yard and back patio are our Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts -for a few years! careytearose Here is a link that might be useful: check out the Landscaping Projects 2007 album...See MorePebbleTec Scheduled - Woo Hoo!
Comments (6)stonesmama- if my pool turns out like yours, it will be perfect. It is just so difficult to say how a color is going to look with different sun angles, cages, east or west facing, etc. Apparently there aren't any Blue Lagoon pools in my neighborhood. But I went to stand in a Tahoe Blue (Tec) and I'm sure I like the feel of the Tec best. It was in a cage and north-facing in the morning and was dark. Just a hint of emerald green in the deep end sun. Then I walked down the street to a south-facing uncaged Blue Granite (Sheen) pool. Definitely understood that had a grittier feel to it on the feet, but not in a bad way, just different. It was a nice blue color but dark. The PB just called me and he tried to get me to see a Blue Lagoon pool today but it didn't work out. I'm feeling pretty good about the Blue Lagoon because I'll take the feel over a hint of green. Apparently our city water will make all the pools look green at first until it all gets filtered through and balanced. It's pretty strong stuff - a lot of people don't drink it or have water softeners - and I have to clean everything with vinegar to keep the crud from building up (bathrooms, showers, coffee maker, etc) I'll keep you posted!...See MoreProblem with PebbleTec Installation...Water in Pool?
Comments (4)I hear you...I was worried sick. We ended up not using Pebble Tec.....long story...you can read about it on my thread titled "im so frustrated i could scream"....anyways....we were going to have midnight blue but after all the headaches and delays from pebble tec installer....we ended up going with the "River Rok"....basically the same....it is more like pebble sheen. We went with a custom color trying to match midnight blue....its close....i think somewhere inbetween midnight blue and tahoe blue. Heres my build link if you are interested: Here is a link that might be useful: david pool build...See MorePebbletec - deffective install ??
Comments (14)So far what others have said is that they also have "thin patches" in their finish. But have also stated that they see no visible places (or feel them on their feet) where the pebbles have fallen out leaving little craters behind. If my issue was limited to the cove at the back of the steps, I wouldn't be concerned or have a problem with it, especially knowing that others have the same thing. The problem is that these areas are also on the front (outside corners) of the steps and benches as well as the pool bottom and are rough and there for you to step on. I guess the pictures of the pool floor which I took are not clear enough to see the detail (I lowered the resolution before uploading them) but if I were to take close-ups of these areas they would look like the patches I have photographed above. You would know if you had those areas on the bottom of your pool because they are very rough and you would feel them. If you look at those pictures of my pool bottom closely, you will see areas which are grayer or darker than other spots, these have the little pock marks like the more obvious pictures above. The picture is just not clear enough to see them. As for the acid washing. I think that mainly takes care of the spots where the pebbles are thin - not missing. If you imagine taking away the plaster where the dimples are in my photos above, you would still have craters because the pebbles are missing at that level. It may look better however to have one large, low spot by removing the plaster where all of the individual pebbles have fallen out. It is these small ridges which makes the surface rough. My concern is that if I have lost all of these pebbles (where apparently none of you ever have) then who's to say that this will not continue? And if it's like this in 1 month, what might it look like in 1 or 2 years? Plus if it were to get worse and I waited for one or two years before saying something about it, one could call into question how the pool has been maintained over the last year or two with respect to water chemistry or other abuse such as hard metal objects in the pool or whatever....See Moreterryibra
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