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Sunstone pearl and Crystalstone

19 years ago

We need to make a decision soon on the finish of our pool. Does anyone have pics of a sunstone white pearl pool finish or a crystalstone blue pearl finish. Any suggestions? We are trying to find a finish that reflects a natural clean blue of the water. It's all very confusing!! Thank you

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  • 19 years ago

    I have been scouring the internet looking for pictures of sunstone pearl finishes (I want a darker blue).
    I linked to a site below, which has at least one in white and several in aqua.
    florida_gal and JJs_austin both have sunstone aqua pearl and their pictures are in the gallery.

    Rob

    Here is a link that might be useful: Site with sunstone white pearl finish

  • 19 years ago

    Below is a link to another site with alot of sunstone "pearl white" finishes, but you have to do a little detective work.

    Hit VIEW > SOURCE on your browser and the HTML taglines for each picture include the finish on that pool. It looks like there are seven or eight with sunstone white pearl.

    Rob

    Here is a link that might be useful: Some of these pools have sunstone white pearl

  • 19 years ago

    Our pool is Crystalstone pebble in turquoise pearl. Anyone looking for a clean blue should not choose this color. It's very much a turquoise blue color and on cloudy days has a gray cast to the water. We love the color, but it's defintely not a clean blue.

  • 19 years ago

    I have been struggling with the very issue you have but was told by my pool builder that they have had some complaints about streaking from the colored grout used for the colored finishes for those products (all made by CLI industries in Orlando, FL). What I wanted was a pebble smooth finish that had the small rocks colored, not the grout. I called CLI and they can mix in any colored stone at the job site to your sunstone pearl finish. They also have a new product called Sunstone Pearl Cove Blue. It has small blue rocks that give it a bluer hue than the white pearl. They sent me a sample in 3 days! It looks great. It is not yet on their web site. (My plaster goes in tomorrow! Good luck

  • 19 years ago

    Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions!!

  • 19 years ago

    I really like it. I will figure out the pic thing and post it. It is subtle and does not interfere with the colored lights at night.

  • 19 years ago

    That's good to hear. Glad you are happy with the choice, ours is planned to go in early next week. Would be great if you can get the pic on here too. Thanks again

  • 19 years ago

    I am now more confused than ever about these finishes.
    I just spoke with a very helpful young woman at CLI and she has basically opened up new options.
    Apparently, cove blue pearl was a "custom color" which was requested by several customers, so they are bringing it out as a standard color. As mentioned above, the combinations of stones and plasters can be changed. You can also mix plaster/stone combinations as missy_23 did with blue pearl and black pearl.
    To add to the choices, another new product line called crystalstones smooth is apparently the same pebble size of sunstone pearl and could have been placed in that line, but has different colors. Unfortunately, none of these is available to see on the web and they have to send samples.
    When I get mine, I will try to post pictures, but even that doesn't really give us a great idea what the final pool color will be.

    By the way, would love to see cove blue when you get a chance.

    Rob

  • 17 years ago

    My wife and I are at the decision point between Cove Blue and White Pearl.

    poolskiddish - any chance you are able to post pics? How about to one of the photo sites?

  • 16 years ago

    does anyone have pictures of sunstone pearl-black pearl. It is a very dark water, I wanted a deep blue but not black but my pb only does the sunstone pearl and they do not have a big selection of colors like the crystalstones-all from cl industries. I am stressing over this, anyone regret their dark bottom pool?

  • 16 years ago

    does anyone have pictures of sunstone pearl-black pearl. It is a very dark water, I wanted a deep blue but not black but my pb only does the sunstone pearl and they do not have a big selection of colors like the crystalstones-all from cl industries. I am stressing over this, anyone regret their dark bottom pool?

  • 16 years ago

    Our pool is a beautiful light blue. We went with Premixmarbletite, pebble finish, Antigua beach series. We personally like the lighter color pool as opposed to a darker look. Look at our pool build http://www.thathomesite.com/forums/load/pools/msg0718532217198.html?21

    This is a link to premixmarbletite http://www.premixmarbletite.com/

  • 16 years ago

    brentr- I was looking at your pool build pictures and see that your shallow end is 3 1/2 feet deep with 3 stairs into water. I have the same configuration (pre plaster) and am a litte concerned that the risers are too high. Have you had any trouble with people getting in and out because stairs are so tall? I'm not even sure this could be addressed at this point but I'm curious if this is even an issue to be concerned about. Thanks!

  • 16 years ago

    almost there, we have had no problems with people getting in and out of our pool. The wife had the same concerns and wanted 4 stairs, however the PB talked her out of it because our pool is so small. We are very happy we took his opinion. I just measure them. The first stair to the top of the coping is 10 inches, the second stair is 11.5 inches, the third stair is 12 inches and down to the floor is about 7 inches. Remember it will measure differently when they put plaster in the pool.

  • 16 years ago

    thanks brentr! I will rest much easier now!

  • 8 years ago

    Does anyone have any pictures of the sunstone pearl finishes in their pool? We can not decide on a color bc we are ahving trouble finding examples

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