Recent content by john redcorn

so i said I hadn't seen a difference using this cellulose fiber backwashing and changing it a few times from 1-8pm sun, few more times almost all day monday until 7 or 8 without a noticeable difference, there was a big difference overnight i posted about this morning but even bigger just the 10...

Had a pretty major clearing up overnight last night. I used the cf stuff 3x or so sunday and 3x or so monday and hadn't really seen any progress by about 7pm monday but overnight last night it's filtered out a whole lot, visibility is much better.

Hate to admit this here, but I don't have a proper test kit, just the ph + tc one. I've always been lucky and never needed anything more, esp using the swg and the other couple times I had a algal bloom i just put in 2 gals of bleach a day for 2 or 3 days until I saw no green and it just worked...

I would have posted in the other guy's de into sand filter thread but I think i remember this forum being one that likes new threads for different situations and mine's a bit different than his SWG didn't work this year and have been doing bleach, forgot for a couple days and it got green...

Seam is about 8 inches up from ground and looks like the leak could be somewhere in a 3ish foot part of it. Would caulk or silicone do anything? anything else that may work? I've already told the kids there will be a pool somehow this summer but even $400 for another one of these is going to...

It is greenish and looks bad in the pic but it really is mostly clear. Copper ion gen has not been connected at all. Everytime I've went to pool store its been the same lady testing who's definitely no high-schooler and really seems like she knows her stuff and not just looking to sell. I'll...

Sadly I have no full test kit, Admitting that I feel like a person on bikeforums.net asking the spandex princes about something they pedal from walmart or a hipoint-owner on any gun forum asking about draw and fire techniques. Pool's just always been completely perfect since we got the swg and...

It's been rainy and/or cold (like 60s!) for the last week and a half and brought our water temp down to 70, no one was interested in swimming or maintenance. It left a bunch of junk at the bottom but water was perfectly clear until wife decided couple days ago to brush everything down before...

A little over a month into our second season with an intex sand filter. It's never been open since new. My wife backwashed it yesterday in to the dog's little pool, why I don't know and don't really care to know but there was a bunch of sand there. Just a regular ~10" high plastic kiddie pool...

Last year I used a newer model intex swg on my 18' summer escapes and had to run it 6 hours a day to keep my fc around 3-5. Had planned since last year and still really wanting to get the 16x32 intex this year and put a skimmer in it but money is tight. If it does happen may be later on in the...

Hate it too. No swimming, wearing jackets will be a reality soon. This leads to the thought of my wifes car and my car not being able to go anywhere if it gets real bad, only my junky old 4wd Tahoe being able to go anywhere is sure depressing. I hate winter and I live in OK. I can't even imagine...

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My youngest (7yrs) I guess brought this home from school today the fourth day of school this year, she's asleep already & I just saw it. It says "draw pictureS" She thought one would suffice. I think the brown spots at the bottom underneath the vertical beams must be the wood feet I made this year.

Re: Amazon Ecosaver solar. My experience/info/why I'm buying I've got a gas line coming out of my house, I just need to bury some pvc to get water over there to it. Trouble for me is there's no electric there where the gas line is, I may keep the pump/filter/swg beside the pool where I have it...

Re: Amazon Ecosaver solar. My experience/info/why I'm buying haha wife and I are the opposite here, kids will get in no matter what, it's reading 78f water temp today and a cool ~78 air temp and neither of us grown-ups will go near it.