A while back I was looking into what kinds of coatings I might want to apply to the exterior of my 107 year old concrete block house (has concrete block 1st floor, stucco on 2nd floor. Keim had some products I was considering. Even talked to the US rep at length about it, who was very helpful and it seemed pretty affordable at the time. Well, other priorities came up and only now Im back to thinking about the exterior. Has anyone had any first hand experience with any of these products - pro, con, thumbs up or down? Any regrets? http://www.keim.com/tabid/103/product/173/default.aspx

Their filter appears to be a sand filter. Nothing special about that. Milk of magnesia, when internally ingested, is a laxative. While I don't drink pool water on purpose, it does happen. Plus, my dogs drink from the pool, as well as their water bowl and of course, a toilet with the lid up. Non-synthetic chlorine? That would require fission or fusion. Chlorine is an element. A very reactive one at that. It is also a very common element. All forms of salts that I know of contain it, as well as many other compounds. Magnesium salts are somewhat more eco-friendly to plant life. Using them instead of plain salt with a cell works too. It just costs a lot more. The salt water in pools is about 3500 ppm. The oceans are about 40,000 ppm. My pool doesn't support life forms. The oceans do. My pool isn't the ocean. I don't treat it like one either. I backwash onto my lawn. My grass grows just fine. Since when are baking soda, borax, or sodium carbonate (aka pH Up or dense ask) considered environmentally toxic? Someone tell the EPA! Lol. California does have backwash laws regarding salt. The use of water softeners for this area involves a brine tank who's salt content rivals that of the ocean. That present a problem for fresh water wetlands. Salt water from pools does not and has been excluded, if I remember correctly. While I appreciate that manufacturers need to market as best they can, those that guild the Lilly get put at the bottom of my list. These people are guilding the Lilly. Scott

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Hi all, In September, Fabuwood came out with a new color, called Dove in their Allure Fusion style cabinet. Our choice of cabinets is coming soon and we are getting impatient for our local salesperson to receive his new selection of color and door samples. Dove looks to be a much warmer white that the white they offer in their Allure Galaxy style called Frost, which is what we had considered. I know I can order a door myself but in lieu of that, I'm wondering if anyone has used this cab/color or if anyone has done a paint match at BM or SW. Fabuwood has not responded to a request about the color...not surprised.