We are also in the NE and have professional pool service weekly. Our pool builder referred our complaints to the Pebble Fina installer (David Cooke Plaster). (We had problems the first season with the finish.) That was a dead end and David Cooke was not interested in helping. I called the PebbleTec corporate office who referred me back to David Cooke. I would never put this finish on my pool again. The only thing we found to work was having our pool service company drain and acid wash the pool. We are coming up on 3 year since installation. I’m guessing we will have to replace the entire pool surface in less than half the time we were told from the manufacturer. It’s been a very frustrating and costly mistake putting this finish on our pool. They have not stood behind their work and just stopped returning our calls. Hopefully a full drain and acid wash will help. Best of luck to you!

📷 #WhereTaken🇺🇸 #429 (16.05.2024) 1/6 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🎉 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr I've never been anywhere near this state, surprised myself by getting it with the first guess. But I missed the last photo, to me it almost looks like it is from another country. Rusty

Sorry.........very dated 1984 looking : ( ! and not good with cabinet style at all. If you are so concerned about bumping into a straight ease and polish corner? You haven't got the correct clearances AND should ask yourself if the island should even be in the kitchen.

As you know from the build thread, I've agonized over some of my choices--most recently kitchen backsplash--and I have also suggested to people they hire help. My frugal DH would balk at this for us, so I understand your hesitancy.. But there are many talented folks, still in school, just starting out, dabbling on the side, who can offer advice for less than average.. But even so, you have to know what you like, and I don't mean elements. I mean overall look of a room. There are tiles I LOVE that would not work with my overall kitchen design. That's one of the bigger errors I see on some of these DIY renovations, etc. They put everything they love in one blob and it ends up like a beef, peppermint patty, blueberry pie. Most of my decisions I am in love with, and much of what I did I learned how here (that and I am creative.) But how I did it was I looked and looked at inspo pictures to see what I loved, and to learn how everything worked together. I looked at things I didn't like either, and tried to figure out why not. Then I started inspo/mood boards. Even so, there are rooms/ choices I designed that others might not love. It's when I have chosen an element without the whole in mind that I have been unhappy--my DH and I fell in love with a chandelier (which is always great when we both go, oh, yes! That it's.) We bought it 18 months ago when we thought the house would be done LAST fall. Now that it's up, it is really wrong. I think we loved it in the shop when it was way above us, and all lit up and glittery, LOL. Even when my DH hung it and sent me pictures, I liked it. BUT in person, it's too big, too bleah, not right. What I lack in design is sizing vision, that knowledge of how big/small something should be, or how busy or calm. A designer often knows that easily. Still, funny story, an acquaintance of mine with money to burn and zero wish to even think about these things, hired a designer well-known in town. The look she ended up with in her formal home was absolutely atrocious, like something someone thought Scarlet O-Hara and Suzanne Sugarbaker would want with black and white and red and green vomit. LOADS of layered chintz and heavy brocade. She kept it all for a year, probably because she was suffering a sort of mental "The Emperor has no Clothes" about the designer. All that stuff is now languishing in a local high end consignment shop...as she starts over with a different designer. So Jennifer Hogan's comments are not wrong. The best thing you can do is collect every image you love and try to channel those, but make sure the plans blend from room to room. My look was old cottage with transoms, wood floors, old doors. I couldn't suddenly put in a super MCM plastic kitchen.