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    Time to say goodbye

    I had to edit my original response a few times for fear of making ya upset about it :) It's really light colors like greens and yellows on white background that strain my eyes. I have one forum that I change the theme of to be darker cause a black background with white text is easier for me...
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    Time to say goodbye

    So far all is good, heading to Orlando tomorrow morning so tonight I need to place some tri-chlor pucks in my floater and pray it lasts a week. Definitely don't want to come home to a green mess after everything else. got my TF-100 almost 5 years ago Not messing with the signatures, if I can...
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    Time to say goodbye

    Sorry, its been a busy time with filling, the 4th, getting ready for vacation, work, etc. This is the only one I snapped right now.
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    Time to say goodbye

    I'm reserving final judgement until the fish are underwater, but for right now I like it. I have maybe a foot and half of water so far however I've only had the hose on during daylight hours. I'm hoping it I'll be able to start cutting the holes within the next two days. Going on vacation...
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    Time to say goodbye

    Well the liner is set with about an inch and half of water. Going to let the water run till 10 then shut it off for the night. Tomorrow I'll fill some more before work. Suppose to have tstorms tonight so I put the top rails on to strengthen it up too
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    Time to say goodbye

    I have watched video after video after video. A few things in common. They never show how a person got out of a pool without leaving a ladder print behind. None of them show how to get into the pool to unroll/fold it. Some say just go over the pool wall but I'm thinking that's a great way to...
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    Time to say goodbye

    Ok, after being in the pool with no water all day, I think I'm done making repairs. supports have bricks under them once again, there doesn't appear to be a hugely noticeable drop on the one side anymore. I did luck out when I found another broken base, I was afraid I was going to have to...
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    Time to say goodbye

    I call it my "finding dory" liner since well, the movie is out. I always wanted something fun and something you don't see on every pool, I didn't get a choice in liner when we put the original one in almost 10 years ago so this time I was having my way :) Hopefully it looks great in the pool...
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    Time to say goodbye

    Maybe it was just goodbye to my Liner....I started tinkering and poking around and figured I can put new blocks under the supports that are missing them. Then I thought, I can put in my new liner. So I figured I'd give it a go....Thursday my "finding dory" liner should appear and hopefully...
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    Time to say goodbye

    It's ok patrick, I appreciate your help, I'm just bummed I couldn't find them locally cheaper. I can only imagine what the pool store would have charged me for the top ledge piece too. I'm a little irked when I look at a 10 cent piece of plastic and am charged 20 bucks for it....I watched a...
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    Time to say goodbye

    Shoot! the parts I ordered through INYO definitely cheaper but 20 minutes later I got a message the bottom rails are backordered 2 weeks. In 2 weeks I'm on vacation on a cruise ship, I can't afford to risk leaving my pool walls up without a liner and water that long so I had them cancel the...
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    Time to say goodbye

    Thank you! Just sent in my request last night and got a response before 8am, hopefully after I send some additional photos I'll be able to order all the parts tonight
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    Time to say goodbye

    So right now I'm waiting to hear back from an installer to find out what it might cost to repair the un-levelness of my pool before I decide to get rid of it. Does it sound weird that I'm wanting to keep it even though I don't use it very often, I feel like had I chosen to take it down rather...
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    Time to say goodbye

    So I went outside today to add some chlorine to my pool when I discovered my pool was empty, it freaked it me, I looked, no hoses popped, how the heck did this happen? I climbed inside and moved my just recently purchased generic kreepy crawly and there behind the ladder is a nice 6 inch long...
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    Solar Cover

    Hmm. Good to know. The store originally told me it was cause I left the cover on while shocking. At that time I had no clue how old the cover was as it came with the house when I bought it. I guess I should count myself lucky that my existing cover has lasted longer than three years... Well...
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    Tire Tube as Air Pillow

    Well I'm happy and sad to report that we are still here, and I just opened the pool and No funky smell from the tire tube and the tube stayed inflated unlike the air pillows I buy each year.
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    Generic Kreepy Krauly...

    I just bought this to replace my Barracuda that came with the pool, apparently it was missing parts I did not know about and said parts cost almost as much as getting a new unit. So this "generic" guy caught my eye, hopefully it will work just as well as the old one, or at the very least the...
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    Solar Cover

    When I made the switch the BBB method, I stopped putting my solar cover on because I wasn't sure if it would handle it, I was adding bleach almost every day or other day and it was a pain to put on and off and on and off by myself. I ruined my prior cover by shocking the pool with the cover...
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    Tire Tube as Air Pillow

    That is what I planned on doing as long as it smells like pool water after I start putting bleach in the spring. What are monomers and should I be concerned? Should have waited to press Checkout till later today... could have bought a raft! oh well, if my partner gets his way we won't...
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    Tire Tube as Air Pillow

    So I'm tired of buying Air Pillows just to not have them last the winter so this year I'm using a tire inner tube, Amazon should have it here on Thursday. I'm assuming the same thing should apply like the air pillows...don't inflate it 100%, just 50-75% full. Any thoughts
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    Chemical protection

    I have an above ground so I set the chlorine on the top of the side rail and unscrew it there, and that's where I may or may to get splashed from the safety seal, Perhaps I should use a knife to poke a hole instead of the ripoff tab that sometimes peels away instead of removing the seal. Then...
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    Chemical protection

    I'm wondering what procedures everyone else uses to protect themselves from chemicals. It never seems to fail, no matter how careful I am I end up with bleached clothes while adding pool chemicals. Either a dot splashes of the safety seal when I open a new bottle, or splash back when pouring...
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    Critter Question

    I've owned my above ground pool for maybe 6 years now, I've never run in to this before. A few weeks before opening my pool I was hearing what I thought was a strange sounding bird in the area, usually during dusk. Never saw it. Then one day last week I've decided it was time to remove the...
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    Repair unlevel pool

    is it possible/feasable to fix an unlevel above ground pool without draining the whole thing and losing the liner? One side of my pool is about 2 to 3 inches lower than the rest, and I generally don't notice or care, except when it rains because that side of the pool then starts to overflow...
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    Where to buy products

    So today I had some free time and was looking at my pool when I got to thinking (its dangerous, I know) Chlorine I can buy anywhere Bleach is sold. To change my pH I can buy washing soda and/or borax wherever I buy laundry detergent or Muriatic Acid at the Hardware store. To change my TA I use...
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    Not ready to open yet, but.....

    I just wanted to say THANK YOU for this website. This is the first year I opened my pool and it was free of green! In years past the cover has fallen in over winter (this year I said enough was enough and hung half filled jugs of water over every set of grommets to hold that puppy down) or...
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    Not ready to open yet, but.....

    I'm not ready to start my pool opening quite yet, maybe in another week or two, but I did sneak a peak under the cover and noticed to my surprise the pool is clear this year, the first after 3 years of swampy messes caused by incorrectly closing or the cover falling in (2 years in a row) over...