Recent content by tridoc927

Ok here's a blog post detailing start to finish as best as I could. Should have taken even more pictures. Renovate My Ranch: Pool Start To Finish

@ariel68 or @kshuf Did you do it? Any pics? August has been a hot one and we've been enjoying the pool quite a bit. Haven't done much in the way of landscaping again because it rained all May and June. We're having the local electric company come out and trench and bury lines that currently run...

@K9 Protected Well I tried and I'm getting error message about exceeding my quota? Let's see if URL link works. Hardest part of this project? When it started raining and getting that heavy ditch witch back up the slippery slope and out of the hole. To give you an idea of how big the hole was...

I've used Fix-A-Leak two years in a row and it's worked great. First time the leak was on the suctions side and one in the pool wall (Intex). It worked for over a year. We have a new leak somewhere now end of next season and put it in again. I think it's working again and I just can't find how...

I have this problem sometimes. I make sure the vacuum is attached securely to the wall skimmer. If that's fine I often toggle the lever on the sand filter in case the filter stopped running as strongly. If that doesn't work I backwash and that usually does it for sure. If I think of more things...

Close up of the pool deck after I cleaned out the clay. This year we finally got our pool up before June. We never got it up before even July prior years. But haven't been able to swim much due to thunderstorms almost daily in the evening. Next projects are to landscape yard and build deck...

I finally relented and drained the pool and cleaned it the old fashioned way. After cleaning...

OK another dumb question. Why a triple parallel cart system or even better what is that?

I've had clay soil in pool over a week now and can't tell that the filter is able to pull it out. I thought I heard adding Diatomaceous Earth would help? Is this true?

How far down on the wall is the skimmer usually placed. I would assume the water level can't be over the skimmer?

We installed a Hayward Wide Mouth Skimmer into our Intex Ultraframe 12'x24'x54" today and just did it exactly like the instructions said. It was a b#@$!#$ to get on but I like that the gasket/grommet whatever was left intact and is on both sides of the pool and joined. We installed with it first...

If you want a Intex skimmer we just installed a Hayward through the wall skimmer and I could send you our old one. Otherwise I'll probably sell it on e-bay or something.

We installed a Hayward Wide Mouth Skimmer into our Intex Ultraframe 12'x24'x54" today and just did it exactly like the instructions said. It was a b#@$!#$ to get on but I like that the gasket/grommet whatever was left intact and is on both sides of the pool and joined. We installed with it first...

Any chance of fixing the pics links. None of them are coming up anymore.

Oh boy I'm sorry we ended up getting stalled. My parents live across the street and my mom was ill first then my dad passed away Sept. 9th just eight days before his 98th birthday. So we have just started up again. The pool was so neglected at the end of the year that I didn't even winterize it...