StoneScapes Tahoe blue mini pebbles - GREEN?
grubciu
13 years ago
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Tahoe Blue Plaster/Midnight Blue Pebbles??
Comments (9)Get verification of the type of pigments that are in PT's blue plasters. IT IS ORGANIC BLUE pigment, pthalocyanine to be exact, and is used to dye textiles. It will bleach with exposure to chlorine, just like blue jeans do. It streaks because the pigment is so fine. It will float to the surface of the plaster and must be troweled back into the cement matrix. Fortunately for PT, the pebbles hide the bleaching and streaking. IF you have to have their product, be sure to take pictures of the color during the installation, after the pool is filled with water, and after a couple of months of exposure to chlorine and sunlight. Take another a year later... the dark blues will turn to a dark grey... the light blues will turn to light grey... Heck, do your own experiment, ask the plaster crew to pour some of the wet plaster into a mold and let it cure. Once it has cured for 28 days, set the sample tile half way into a container of weak household bleach and place it out of the way where it can get sunlight. The half that is exposed will change color with in a week or two... Buy a plaster that is known for using ONLY INORGANIC PIGMENTS (i.e. cobalt oxides)...See MoreStoneScape mini pebble vs. Quartz
Comments (2)You might be better served by using the computer simulated colors. This would probably not hold true across different brand names, but should have some "truth" in it across the colors of any one company. Why? Since you don't know the sky conditions when the various photos were taken (clear blue, partly cloudy, overcast, etc); the angle of camera to water surface (and angle of sun to water); the exposure accuracy of the camera (some cameras are better than others); depth of the water (etc.). If conditions changed enough, these things could even affect your personal, on-site, impressions....See MoreStonescapes Mini Pebble Tahoe Blue
Comments (5)OMG, I must have jinxed myself. We walked around in the pool today and were puzzled about how it felt -- alot bumpier than we thought it would be. That's when we realized that either our PB or the installer made a big mistake, because we have regular pebbles rather than the mini-pebbles. There's a huge difference between the 2 -- we put the samples we had in the pool and there was no question we didn't have mini-pebbles. The good thing is we have our e-mail where we told the PB our final selection, so it's clearly not our fault. We're waiting to hear what the PB has to say -- they've been great so far, so I know they'll fix it. I just don't relish the thought of what it will take to drain the pool, scrape out the pebbles and re-do it all, so we're trying to decide if we can live with it. We actually really like the look of the larger pebbles, but I'm still not sure I feel like sitting on them in the spa. I'll keep you posted. At the very least, I can show you some pictures of Tahoe Blue regular pebbles, and if we decide to have it redone, I can show you both! There's never a dull moment with a pool build, is there?...See MorePictures of pools with StoneScape Mini??
Comments (8)We just finished our pool last week. We used StoneScape mini pebble in tahoe blue. We are very pleased with the color it turned out as well as the feel of the stonescape mini - it is very comfortable under foot. Here is a picture of the pool with water. I also have some pics before it was filled I can share as well if you are interested. Kat Here is a link that might be useful: Our Pool...See Moregrubciu
13 years agogrubciu
13 years agoThis is what the water in my pool looks like, will it stay this green? or will the chamicals fix it in time?
poolguynj
13 years agocannonball_joe
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13 years agotravis_turner
13 years agoOurs is PT Tahoe Blue, but we had the same concern...
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grubciu
13 years agochicken_farmer
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