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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...

Very cool pool! I love that you went with natural colors so that it blends in with the nature surrounding your pool and has an "earthy" feel! :goodjob:

Ok, I balanced the pH down to 7.5...maybe a little lower, but not much. We pulled out the cake stairs yesterday and I've got the CL at about 19. I'll check it again at lunch and bring it back up. If I had mustard algae, would I know it? Like would I have visable algae somewhere? The only thing...

Tizme- what kind of stairs did you go back to? We are at a disadvantage in that our inground is buried with a concrete deck around it, making a lot of the other step options unfeasible. I like having the wide wedding cake stairs because it is easier for my LARGE father to get in and out of the...

I have really been struggling the last few days. I had gotten our water so clear and sparkly...but woke up the other morning to some slightly cloudy water. Afraid of a repeat of earlier this season, I started shocking. Raised the CL up to around 20 for a few days, no change in water. Raised it...

We have a float holder that we call "buoy bay" and a teak toy chest that holds all of our small stuff, goggles, snorkles, etc. We posted a sign that says "Swab the Deck", so we try to make our kids put all of their swim stuff up after every swim. I don't like them to leave the floats in because...

That's the way I'm leaning too. Although, our stupid doughboy pump sounds like a harley! LOL All the sound but none of the 'cool'. 8-) I might be in the market for a new pump! Hi Ted! We are having a GREAT summer, in part, due to the great advice that you were able to give me last season! I...

We just purchased an Aquabug, the yellow one sold off of ebay. She sure does scoot around the pool and seems to be picking up a lot of stuff. We've noticed that we need additional hose lengths, so I will be purchasing those today. A suction side cleaner is a little bit of a hassle. We were...

Don't want to start a new thread since this is plumping related. I have another question about disguising this monstrosity. Our pump and filter sit on a concrete pad right out in the open for everyone to see. My husband is wanting to build a painted plywood box around it to not only disguise...

Your pool turned out SO nice! I love the pool house and your paving stones on the small rock. Very pretty.

I am just hitting you guys right and left with the plumbing questions this week. :oops: I have a 1.5 hp pump with 200 lb. sand filter. My pump doesn't have trouble keeping prime and I haven't noticed anything unusual...well, anything that I think is unusual. I recently got a new psi gauge...

Truly stunning. I would buy your house just for the backyard! 8)

I dumped a large amount of bleach into my pool to open it. It wasn't until I got almost all of the organic debris out that I really started making progress. Like these guys said, the more you get out, the faster it will go and the cheaper it will be.

Awww....that's so sweet! I always feel so "untechnical" compared to all the smarties on this board! :lol: BTW- jandy valve worked just like I thought it would. Now I'm just waiting for my new auto pool cleaner to test out my new knowledge.

Seriously! What a scary situation. I like to be the nice guy just as much as anyone, but when it comes to a situation like that, you almost have to be an arse! Better to be safe than well liked, you might say! :shock:

Neat pics poolmom! We are serious campers and hikers too! We tent camp though. If we lived somewhere cooler, I swear we would be camping every weekend! :shock: