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My bro in Houston has the same stonework around his spillover hot tub and he had the same scaling. He used a 50/50 mix of MA, green scrubbie pad and elbow grease. It eventually came off.

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Today it hit 105. My pool is stuck at 94. Texas does have two seasons, he!! and something slightly cooler than he!! The only real winter in Texas is in the panhandle.

filter-operating-cost-t9754.html read the last post by me. it is a formula for calculating the cost.

Duh, egg on my face, didn't think of that one!

Liner failure. Ridiculous, those pool stores will say anything to get you to buy stuff. Use bleach. Your liner will be fine. Why hasn't the guy who originally started this thread responded, replied, said "thanks" for the answer to his question. Drives me crazy.

Don't buy into the marketing hype. Just use liquid chlorine, aka, bleach and save your money!

My brother has one attached to his hayward pool vac and it catches all the leaves that make it to the pool bottom.

Yes, you can legally buy pepper spray at Academy.

Well, where's the update on how the party went? Did the pool become a toilet? Did the bachelor and bachelorette get thrown in the pool? Who threw up first? Who was thrown into the pool first? Who passed out first and became "tattooed"?

Poolidiot, Where is the nearest Academy Sports to you?

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Be careful, a duck is protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918 and they don't qualify as a nuisance. You should contact your nearest Texas Parks and Wildlife Office and see what they say first before you try to pellet it.

Public pools are sometimes kept at 10ppm and no one knows or even cares.

I use a couple of short sections of old garden hose. Once the siphon is started the water drains from the cover to the ground.

Amps X voltage divided by 1000. That sum X your cost per kilowatt hour. That sum is the cost, in dollars and cents, to run your pump per hour. Multiply that sum X the number of hours you run your pump. This is the daily cost. Daily cost X 30 will compute your monthly cost. Example: 11...

I don't believe this is a child safety issue. That's what responsible adults and lifejackets are for. A person could drown in as little as 2 inches of water. Save your energy and the money for another project.

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If you think about it, the clear, chlorinated, sterile water is the "dead" water.

I bought a filter combo from them as well, good prices! My water is crystal clear and that's with a 55 sq. ft. filter. Your's will be almost double that. You'll probably be able to go all season without cleaning it. I didn't clean mine until the middle of summer. It didn't need it though, I...

I had the same problem with my old sand filter. I would vac and after a few minutes, I could see dirt returning to the pool. I took the valve off and checked the sand bed, it seemed deep enough and there was no channeling. I backwashed it and continued vacuuming. After a few minutes dirt was...

I don't know if you are replacing the pump as well: http://www.poolproducts4less.com/index. ... ProdID=343

You need one. Don't inflate it until is is firm. The pillow needs to be able to "crush" to take up for the expanding ice in the pool, if ice forms. I use one pillow tethered in the center of an 18' AG.

Clarifiers = smoke + mirrors

After all that's done, get a Martini and sit poolside!

So you have been running the filter for the past 9 months and haven't recoated the grids with DE? You're going to have to remove the grids again and clean them. DE filter grids are designed to be used with the coating of DE. If you run the filter with uncoated grids, dirt will clog the grids...