r/pools

My in-laws bought this house in 2008, and my husband and I purchased from them in 2023. The coping? has always looked like this. Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have happened here when the pool was installed / concrete poured? Our drains are flush with the concrete, however our coping? (Excuse me if that term is incorrect as I am clearly not a professional) sits above the concrete. What are our options here to correct this? Thanks!

So it’s that time of the year to close the pool and when I got ready to vacuum out the bottom I noticed this little guy. For the past two seasons, we have had a baby snapping turtle like this one in the pool the first or second week we open it. This year we had another one at the end of the season. We have a creek right behind our house but the bank is about an 8 foot drop and about 40 feet from the pool. I’m wondering why these turtles make their way up to the pool every year and if there’s anything we can do to keep them from falling in as I would hate for one of them to die in the skimmer basket.

This is my husband and I’s first season with an above ground pool. We closed it a few days ago. We used a device in the middle to elevate the cover in hopes rain water would run off, but no matter how we adjust it it’s not working. My husband thinks there has to be a solution. I’ve told him just to pump it off the cover but he “doesn’t want to do that every single time it rains”. What do you all do to remedy this?

All of a sudden this starts shooting water out like a water feature. New to pools. Have cleaned the big filters etc. Pool is about 8 months old. Any ideas or troubleshooting steps? Much appreciated.

I'm redoing my pool in South Florida - attached is the space with a little rendering to show updates we're making but leaving the existing watertile tile I need to replace. For the new tile, I'm contemplating this custom mosaic from American Glass Mosaics - two light green tones (kind of seaglass-like in person) plus a clear iridescent for a little pop. I'm going for a soft spa like vibe and like the greens for the tie in to the great green space still staying fairly minimalist. I'm stressing though because when I search for install pics with light green tile and can't find anything remotely close so it's got me paranoid I'm missing something and this will look terrible once installed. Tried having AI mock it up but it was struggling. Has anybody seen this color tone installed and how'd it look?

PB had to pull off liner 2 times so far (soon to be a third time to remove stones from under the liner + fix stair cushions). After removing liner second time, they hammered in the corners, which now look like images below (pasting a photo of just 2 of the corner but all have some damage). They're telling us that these are tracks that can be hammered in, and this is fine and that they had to do it since it was harder to put back the liner after taking it off a 2nd time. Is this normal? Will this cause issues for a future liner install? Will bluestone coping have to be lifted later to replace liner or fix the bead track?