Recent content by hlemon

Not a teacher....just a cheapskate! LOL :lol: I am left handed, so for the signs, I found a few fonts that I thought were fun and blew up the letters to the sizes that I wanted for the signs. Then I traced the letters on and painted. MUCH better than my handwriting! :lol: We just bought 1X4's...

Well, we are about 90% finished with our backyard project. I wanted to go with something a little more classy, but my kids won me over with their "Pirate Inspired Floridian Paradise" concept. It took about 6 weekends and we did all of the work ourselves. This is the new view from my...

Hi Salty! I'm in Conway. Glad to see another Arkansan here!

I HATE the CYA test! :lol:

Same story here. I have gotten SUCH a wealth of information and help from this site that I didn't hesitate to become a lifetime member. The amount that I have saved by being educated about my pool have paid for my membership many times over. I just don't know what I would do next spring if I...

Travis, I was just saying in another thread that it will be a rich person that invents this! I try to keep my chemistry in check, but still have problems with the stinking steps! After you get done designing such a neat pump, get started on designing some new cake steps with an expanded...

Crud. I'll go check it tonight waste and see what's up. I really hope the bolts haven't started pulling away, what do you have to do then, redrill and reposition the pump? That looks SO nice! You guys did a GREAT job h2ctpdjl! I really like the way that turned out.

I would really like to visit up your direction someday. That's an area of the country that I've never seen. My BIL lives in Wilmington, DE. I'd like to go visit him and take about a week driving around New England. The pump is bolted to the concrete pad. We placed a landscaping rock on the...

It will be a rich person that invents cake steps for above grounds that are not algae incubators! If I was smarter, I'd develop one myself! Or some self contained fan type contraption that would use solar power to circulate the water underneath the stairs or something. Hmm....If only I had more...

Will do tonight pool mom! I know Shorelover....the cake steps from Hades! We're tying to figure out how many holes you could drill in the sides without losing any or much of the structural integrity. I resisted last year, but I really think that we need to add borates. I think we have such a...

ok, the water is starting to clear and I have kept the chlorine level up well above my minimum.(Though not always at shock) I STILL wake up in the morning and find "dust" gathered in my liner seams. Does this mean that I still have active algae? It isn't green, its a brown color. I just keep...

I can't express to you how relieved I am to see this posted. I was starting to think that I was losing it! I've resorted to giving up and "stabbing" them with the attachment part of my pool broom. What's the deal? It seems to be a bigger problem with the larger bottles than the smaller 96oz...

I hear ya Ortho! It's been chilly here in Arkansas as well! You did a great job on your first pool! :goodjob:

Your pool turned out really nice and your view is AWESOME!!!

Jackson Browne, huh? I'll bet that was a good concert!!! Where is Foxwood's MGM theatre? OK, the pump is a doughboy, of course. I have noticed that it is more quiet when you put weight on the housing unit or the pump lid. My husband wants to lay a landscaping brick on top of it to take the...