Recent content by GracieCat

I don't have a question. Just wanted to share my pool opening story this year. My winter cover ended up with a hole in it somewhere. I kept trying to drain the green nasty water off the top, but my pool water kept dropping. We finally just scooped the leaves off and had to pull the cover and...

Thanks for the info. Sounds good to me. I'm off to order some sequestering stuff now. I think I have everything else I need.

I live in central NC. You'll have warmer temps closer to the coast and colder temps in the western side. Most years we can swim by the end of May at temps around 70-72. (Too cold for me.) By the first of June we see water temps around 80-82. July-Aug I can see temp 88-91. As soon as Sept...

Location: Central North Carolina My well water is free if you don't count the cost of the metal sequestering chemicals. I think I was told it would be $250 to truck water in. (I can't remember for sure.) In past years, I would start getting some staining when my ph went over 7.2. It would...

We'll be having a new liner installed as soon as the weather is warm enough. Here are my plans as to what to add as the pool fills. Any other suggestions? (10,000 gallons, vinyl liner, bleach, sand filter, NO heater) I'm assuming it will take 2 days to fill. We'll be using water out of our...