Recent content by barb3779

Thanks so much Dave :)

I've always run my ph around 7.2 with no problems. Now that I have a SWG and have read the Pool School section on SWG water balance I see the ph reccomendation there is 7.5-7.6. I'm confused: I thought SWG's cause ph to drift up, so wouldn't one want to start in the lower acceptable range so...

bumping :)

Just wanted to see if anyone has a report on how their Intex pool has fared after being up all winter in a cold climate (particularly want to know if anyone has a pool in good shape after being up year-round for a couple of years). I winterized and covered our metal frame ultra 18ft and it...

Thanks for the answer on the sand!

I saw someone refer to a layer of sand under your tarp for an Intex pool. Is sand OK? We were planning to do this with our Intex too, but I thought I might have read somewhere (maybe on the Intex web site? I forget exactly...getting old!) not to use sand under these pools because it can shift...