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Ya, it's an interesting thought that if a species was capable of that level of genetic engineering that "junk DNA" would be eliminated and the genome would look "cleaner" than a naturally evolved organism. Problem is, we are still figuring out what is and what isn't truly junk DNA. Just because...

I read the original post. Everything he described is just human/animal genetics, biochemistry, and anatomy with an alien twist. Lots of details sure, whoever wrote that should be writing bio sci-fi, it might be really interesting. But not a single one of those details are at all revelatory of...

I really want to believe but give me a break. 100% unsubstantiated words on a message board that any graduate level biochem student could come up with over a weekend. This isn't some amazing information that's too awesome to be a larp. Let's review a couple things. I know for a fact that Julian...

Absolutely yes.

Thanks for the heads up. Will be doing follow up blood work pretty regularly. Me and a couple buddies did a couple cycles of Gold's Gym test back in our twenties, I didn't have any bad side effects. Not worried about my sex drive at the moment, I doubt high T is going to make my old lady's fat...

@lurkingdirk Glad you got it caught early and getting it treated ASAP. I'm sure it will be ok in the end. Did my yearly blood work, my total Test was 258 at age 49. I'm pulling the trigger on TRT. Go in for my first butt pellet next week.

Every pool I've ever built was filled with a garden hose. It's not really as bad as people think in regards to a giant water bill or whatever. Have you ever really examined your water bill closely? 13k gallons isn't that big of a deal for anyone that regularly waters their lawn or has an...

You can buy salt at Home Depot or Lowe's. 13,500 isn't going to take all that many bags to start it up. Just read the directions on the bag to calculate how much. I've worked with all three major brands of equipment over the years, I highly prefer Jandy. Easy to work on/repair and reliable...

Go to Surfside if you want to hit the beach a little water is way better than Galveston. It's a half hour south of Galveston. Rent a side by side and drive on the beach. Weather is hit or miss that time of year, you might get sunny and 70's or cloudy, windy and 40's.

That's the one sticking up out of the tanning ledge. Variable speed pump so it runs at low, gentle speed and Foler speed.

Five returns, which is standard on every pool. One cleaner line, also standard. The other two or three pipes will be the nicheless lights. *Every pool also gets an auto fill/overflow. So every single pool we do will have 7 pipes in the walls minimum. When we get ready for plaster they are cut...

Wow, I wish I could dig in soil like that. The guys can really make some precise cuts in that red clay. Looks like they did a nice job. The way they braced the form board spanning the access ramp is weird but there always 5 different ways to do something. Congrats man.

Yes. Kinda. We have a couple custom home builders that will send their homeowners our way if they are wanting a house/pool combo from the get go. We even had a home builder team up with us for a model home/pool build that got featured in a local DFW magazine. Couple years later one of our...

I'm not quite sure I understand the question bro. I only do new construction, custom builds. We have another builder on staff that does renovations but we don't have any kind of pre-fabbed packages. Every project is designed from the ground up to fit the customer's needs and budget.

Day 5 - finish out the plumbing. Now that we have gunite in I can safely release the plumbers to dig their ditches and set the equipment. Once all the plumbing is in place the plumbers will pressurize all the lines with water at the equipment, about 30 psi. This allows us to detect leaks. As...

Day 4 - Gunite I didn't get any pics of the guys shooting the gunite since it was a busy day and I wasn't able to get over there until late. I'll get pics of the setup at my next one hopefully. Basically you have a compressor truck with rolls of 6" hose and feeder trucks with the material...

Fine. Day 3 of our little play pool build. Plumbing. In this particular case the pool is so close to the existing patio that we do a short stub. This means we put in place all the pipes in that are encased in gunite and save digging the plumbing ditch until the gunite is in. The reasoning is...

I do love a good construction horror story.

Adding value to your home is kind of a regional thing but a nice pool in any of the big warm weather states like TX, FL, or AZ will definitely add some value to your property.

We do sprinkler re-routes after the job is finished. Our sub that we use is pretty good if you still need work done.

These questions are for the sales dudes. I build whatever plan I'm given. FWIW I've never built a pool specifically for doing laps. No one actually builds a pool just to do laps. Most people have families, wives, etc and the idea of spending $100k so dad can do a few laps every week isn't ever...

Day Two Rebar/Steel. Pretty self explanatory, getting the rebar in to reinforce the gunite. You have to make sure it's all bonded, the city inspector wants to see all the bond clamps nice and tight and 4 of em spread around the perimeter on the rebar sticking up, "sky bars". We will use the...

Day One of a super simple, basic pool build. It's going to be a little play pool, about 7,000 gallons, 5' in the deep end. This one I think sold for about $65k. When it comes to digs you have four tiers of pricing and it all depends on access. If you can get the trackhoe and dump truck in then...

In Texas Leslie's will test your water at no charge, just fill up an empty water bottle.

Yep. I'm crazy busy at the moment. I have 17 pools going right now and by the time I get home the last thing I want to do is more pool shit. I am taking pics and will vomit it all out at some point.

Concrete is generally the cheapest unless you upgrade to a colored finish or spray deck. Pavers will be a bit more but I don't really get into the weeds on exact pricing. Travertine deck is probably going to be the priciest option

Took the kayak out for an overnight on the Brazos River below Possum Kingdom dam. Caught my personal best fish ever. A 40" flathead catfish. Pound for pound this beast fought harder than anything besides a shark that I've ever caught. So much fun. Also caught a big ass drum on the ultralight...

You just keep replacing or fixing it. I don't do liner pools but a friend had one that we were in every weekend of every summer when we were in our 20's and he had to mess with that liner every couple years it seemed like. He was a pool guy so he took good care of it.

Everyone has different tastes. This guy was building a $2 million dollar home while I was building the pool. Normally I finish a pool like that in 90 days but this one took 7 months while we waited on the house. Mediterranean exterior but ultra modern interior. He spent $15k on barista equipment...

Lol, ya. No one builds 13' deep pools unless it's for something specialized like SCUBA training.

Just plastered this one last week. Travertine coping, gas fire pit, deck is three levels- one level around the spa, one around the pool, and a third one down and behind the pool. $135k.

$75k ish for a normal 12-15k gallon pool with no bells or whistles.

Now is the time to buy if you have cash. Things are slowed down a lot, sale guys are getting desperate.

Ya if you have a big monstrosity like that you have to keep it dialed in. Once it gets away from you, good fucking luck. Don't ever buy anything with a vinyl liner.

Does it even have a shallow end? Most shallow ends are 3'6" and going from 3.5' to 13' deep is going to be super steep with those dimensions. Anyway, I build em, I don't fill em in. If you can get a dump truck back there then post "Fill dirt wanted" signs around, call some excavation companies...

Just residential.

Our scale is large enough that we have two warehouses full of equipment. We buy straight from the manufacturer by the truckload. Zero lead time on our pools but yes, I hear horror stories all the time about people going with a smaller company, getting it built, then having to wait 6 months to...

This is why I never start new threads.

Pool thread is up in Grown up.