Recent content by Rectifier

Thanks for answering my noob Q's Brushpup :) I don't have a pool test kit, obviously, but I do know a fair amount about water chemistry and have some other test stuff. We are lucky to have no significant metals in the water except a couple ppb uranium. I've done testing on the water in the past...

Very true! An above ground would be a good starter pool to see how it works out for us. We like how our ranch projects a rustic image to customers though. Blue above ground pools skew the image from "cowboys" to "rednecks" pretty quick ;) We will have to hide it

OK so I will probably going with a soft-sided above ground pool of some sort this summer :whoot: Now I need to decide what to fill it with. We have a high-flow well that draws what can be considered an aquifer with near unlimited supply. That would be great except for that the well water is...

True, if it can stand Texas it can stand our sun! And it will absorb more heat sitting out in the sun. I plan on a solar cover as well as some home built thermal panels for heat - I do pumps and motors for a living so that should be easy and cheap. It's a shame they are so darn ugly above...

That's my main concern. I've heard it said that water is more dense than earth (the reason it's found at the bottom of wells) and that a soft pool will push outwards on the soil unless the pool is drained. It sounds like waterlogged soil is heavier than the pool water though from your story. We...

Hi all at TFP. First post :D I live on a ranch in the hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. We have plenty of surface water ponds, but they are all too gross to swim in (weeds, brown water, mucky bottom). My wife and I both love swimming and usually drive 1/2 hour to a huge lake with a beach that...