Hi everyone,
Today was a fun day of playing in a semi filled pool, installing trim fittings and pulling lighting wire through conduit. The electricians were supposed to come today to wrap up, hopefully tomorrow they will come and tie this thing in. I really need the pump moving so my water doesn't get stagnant (not likely anyway with these girls)
When filling the pool you always have to have a vacuum pull behind the liner until a certain point, this helps with creases and fold reductions in the liner itself. We have pretty much run my little shop vac for about 7 hours non-stop without burning it up. We are at the point now to where I can turn it off and continue filling.
Picking out a liner color is incredibly difficult! Only because there are so many options to choose from. What I found most helpful was to find a site that showed the actual liner pattern, and then a few photos representing what it looks like when filled up under the sun and with shade. This liner is actually dark blue and grey, when you add water it turns just a bit turquoise, which is exactly what we wanted, in the direct sunlight it looks cool too! It will look sharp with the white concrete and teak wood accents I have planned for decking!
Here is a better pic of the color change from liner to water color, pretty drastic what it takes to make certain colors possible! When the water level gets to certain points it is time to cut in the return fittings, light fittings and skimmer. This was pretty nerve-racking as you had to find the screw holes to the fittings and screw in the faceplates before cutting the vinyl. You just hope that you aim right so you don't add holes to the liner. All in all it went well, but then you have to cut the opening with a knife and again nerve-racking to use a knife on a new liner!
We did upgrade our lights and went with 2 LEDs vs the one 15" light in the deep end most people have. This was a significant upgrade cost wise but I think it will be worth it! What we did today was install the lights so we could get a suction on the conduit before the water level went above.
Up to this point the only thing buried in the ground for lights is a conduit, today we found some balloon ribbon and sucked it through using the shop vac. We tried pulling the cables through with that but no dice, they broke every time, I think we fed that balloon ribbon 3-4x before I gave up. Called my buddy Brian to see if he had a proper fish tape, but since we had the ribbon we just pulled through some heavy duty waxed nylon that would hook a 400lb catfish with. This worked well, once we got the nylon line through we started pulling these thick lights cables. With four 90 degree bends along each path this was a hard pull. I would estimate at the hardest we pulled 65-80 lbs of force to get them through. My buddy Brian came through with the nylon snag line and laughed his butt off at me for using balloon string, glad I could make someone laugh today :).
I'm now going to go have a cocktail by the pool, stay tuned for more!
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