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Welcome to the family Andy! I am a little further N-E in the state than you are.

I know a lot of people use the 8x10 foam sheets from the major home hardware/building supply stores, and tape them together.

Welcome fellow Alabamian!

This was taken 5 minutes after pulling the cover. I will let the water circulate for a day or 2 before running numbers, but I did set the Stenner back to it's schedule for injecting chlorine.

Why don't you go to Lowes, or Home Depot and get water softener salt? It is usually cheaper than pool salt, and from what I've been reading over the past couple of years, a better quality.

They are in Gadsden, AL. They are used to the local pressure washing services order one barrel at a time. They will deliver locally for free, I USED to work in the same city they are located, and get them to deliver it to my workplace. I live 50 miles away, and will have to go pick it up this...

I went to my local Walmart yesterday. $5.97 per gal +tax

I have a barrel buried in the ground that feeds my Stenner to mitigate the degradation as much as I can. I go through a barrel every year with a bit to spare.

Well, I just got off the phone with my chemical supply house. It seems that the 55 gallon drum of 12.5% chlorine that I get every year has gone up in price once again. (I'm not really surprised.) This year it is running at $248 after tax. I remember (not too long ago) it cost me $150.

you could look into the Arduino online sketch up site. I think they have a section for you to input the processor with a Pi.

The concentrated acid will eat at any and all equipment as it travels through the system on the way back to the pool. Keep in mind that the acid needs the water volume in the pool to be able to be diluted back to levels that are safe for your equipment. The best placement is after ALL other...

Well, I was not able to get out to the pool yesterday due to weather, and company coming over, so I just trusted the Stenner to do it's thing. Today the pool looks good enough that I dialed back the chlorine times quite a bit. I want to let it drop to FC <10 then test the PH level. When I...

I have been here for a while now, and can tell you that what you are going through is what brought me to this site all those years ago. The methods here WORK, make sense, and are repeatable time after time. Not to mention the money that they save you! This is what I have been dealing with for...

It's all good. I would give anything to have her out there in her "Oversized Tanning Bed" with me at this point. There was no offense taken, and I hope you didn't think I was upset with you. :)

Well, for the daily update Picture! :)

You forgot what I said in the first post in this thread. I am taking care of my bed ridden wife, so I can't spend much (any) time in the pool unless there is a family member here to take care of her needs while I am out there. I have been slipping out to test, brush, vacuum.. etc while she has...

Well, I guess that it is due to the backwashing/refilling I have been doing over the past week, but my CYA level has dropped to 30. I have another 4lbs of CYA here for when I come out of the SLAM that I am in to bring it back up to the 50-60 that I usually keep it at. I figure that it should be...

And now for the Daily Reveal! A bit cloudy, I JUST brushed a BUNCH!

Well, time for my daily update picture.

I do know that I am using less and less chlorine. I started with 15 on 60 off with the Stenner timer. Then I went to 10 on 65 off. Every day for the past 2 days I have been deleting certain doses due to it running a bit hot. And I haven't dosed after dark for 3 days.

I don't see much difference today, but am still working on it.

I ended up going a completely different route... Did you know that a 1.25" hose will screw into a 1.5" hose? (They are a left hand thread.) I cut the Intex hose off about a foot from the cleaner end and screwed it into a 1.5" vacuum hose after coating the outside of the Intex hose with RTV to...

Well, I am starting to see a faint hint of the liner print on the bottom of the pool, and am going through WAY less chlorine! I vacuumed manually this morning and once finished, I noticed that I didn't have to backwash the filter, so decided to throw Zippy (my pressure side cleaner) into the...

yet another view... Yup improvement