New pool owner - question on Diamond Brite pits

[vinper]

We went with French grey Diamond Brite . Its really wierd that its grey till you add water then it turns a nice blue ......

[famousdavis]

That was on my short list of DB colors, too!! But like Tahoe Blue, it was an upgraded choice. I liked the few photos I found on the 'Net that showed pools done in French Grey. I hope you like your pool when it's done!

[vinper]

Mine has been finished 2 years this Oct. ... Love it ... you can see pics of it ,in this section listed thread- My Build

[famousdavis]

Great photos! I'd love to see what the water looks like in direct sunlight. Your home, from what little I could see of it, looks nicely upscale. I'm astonished at how much bang you got for you buck. I guess it helped a lot that you did much of the work yourself, huh? Saved yourself a tidy bundle that way.

Wasn't it nice to be able to design your own pool, just the way you want? When my wife and I were looking at the possibility of moving to a larger home that would already have a pool, the homes we looked at all had fairly pedestrian kinds of swimming pools, which would be fine, but it's so much nicer when you can cobble together your own pool design and create something that is uniquely a reflection of your own values, tastes and style. Our home is pretty unremarkable in every possible way, but the pool area now is its key selling feature (not that we're looking to move). A co-worker friend just bought and moved into a nearly new home that during the hey-deys of the real estate market sold for over $1M (he bought it for about half that -- still a huge amount of money). His home outshines my home in every possible way...except one. I like my swimming pool area much better than his. :-)

[vinper]

We worked with the builder on the house saved there also . But we learned so much on both . would love to do it again .. you get better the more you practice .. But just glad to not be upsidedown on mortgage like so many people are right now...

[famousdavis]

"But just glad to not be upsidedown on mortgage like so many people are right now..."

Amen to that! My wife and I stuck in our little 3/2 home while friends I know upsized into huge homes. Then the housing market collapsed, people went bankrupt or they're upside down on their mortgages. One friend I have lives in his $500K home that's now worth about $260K (he's probably $150K upside-down). We suffered through lots of Florida summers without a pool, but now we've got one and I don't have to worry about next month's mortgage payment.

Sometimes less is more.

[PoolDoc]

I think less is going to be more for a long . . . long . . . time. You can't overcome 35 years of living nationally on credit in 5 years. I'm not sure what this will mean for the pool industry, except that there will be a heck of a lot of Intex pools!

But, I think that's a good thing, for the most part*. People forget that the ORIGINAL American dream was freedom from oppression, not freedom to shop till you drop!

Ben / PoolDoc

* If China becomes THE world power, I'm very afraid THAT will be a very, very bad thing, even for the Chinese. Take a look at these articles, about the recent high speed train crash:
http://goo.gl/umzJW -- http://goo.gl/Umfon
The authorities are LITERALLY burying the evidence, possibly including live people. One 2 year old baby was rescued by a policeman disobeying direct orders.