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thanks! so I am hearing from you that the concern is with scale on the stone? a cosmetic thing mostly? That article I linked on my original post, and initial responses talking about calcium buildup and efflorescence made be think the concern was also with the pool maintenance itself. Scale build...

how so? what is the issue then? is the concern only for degradation of the stone itself and not the pool? I though the problem was with calcium hardness which the natural stone could contribute to? I'm confused now

We just switched the water feature wall plans from stone to tile. Thanks folks for the info. Having said that, while I'm not sure if suzook is trolling or not, I do wonder the same. While wife and I looked through the multitude of high end pool projects and examples, a vast number of them were...

thanks! what are some examples of materials that folks use, what exactly is a hard tile? Would travertine classify as such?

We are building a SWG pool, and I have been consuming TFP's articles on pool maintenance. One of the things that caught my eye was this section from this SWG article: "The two most common situations where damage has occurred are in indoor pools, where the FC level has been allowed to get way...