First time poster here as well and I see that you're located in Arkansas as am I. I haven't seen many Arkies on the board (if any) so it's nice to see someone. I had a question regarding the gallons on your pool. Did that estimation come from the pool builder or was it specific to that particular vinyl pool? The reason I ask is that with the dimensions you have given, I'm coming up with about 34,000 gallons. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or maybe I've calculated my own wrong. I took the length x width x average depth x 7.5 (for the approximate # of gallons per cubic feet). This gave me 34,499 gallons. I posted the other day on another board regarding a similar question on piping and pump size as I hope to someday build a gunite/shotcrete pool with similar dimensions. That # of gallons jumped out at me since it was so different than what I was calculating. Vinyl pool and gunite pools may differ, though, in the way the volume is calculated. At any rate, just wanted to ask. Arkansas is apparently an unregulated state with pool builders so it definately pays to be informed. Keep us posted.

JBHogfan