Good suggestion on switching to all hard plumbing, but is not a concern with stressing the fittings when the liner pool wall moves during horseplay in the pool?
I had to temporarily stop filling the pool around noon yesterday as the support legs on one end had started to dig in just in front of the cement blocks. Rather than emptying the pool, which was over half full at the time, I opted for a different solution which worked out very well. Once I listed each leg by about 1", I was was able to push the leg in and pull out the pin holding it to the pool line bottom, and then swing it out of the way to clear the dirt from in front of each block, and move them forward a couple of inches, and then swing the leg back down and reconnect the pin and lower the leg again.
Girls got back from the beach and immediately had to get in the pool although the water was still on the cold side to say the least.
I did pick up a 2" ball valve with unions when I stopped by Lowe's to pick up building material for the deck today, but need to figure out what side outside thread is on the Hayward skimmer. I think it might be 3". So I need to adopt it down to a 2" slip fit for the ball valve. So for now I have it connected as this, with no valve on the skimmer side, which will make cleaning the pump basket challenging to say the least.
Getting close to being filled up now. I suspect it will be done sometime overnight. Will have to check on it just before going to bed and probably shut it off then and resume first thing in the morning. Don't want it to overflow during the night!
I picked up 8 121 lf oz containers of bleach from Walmart. It states 7.86% available chlorine. According to the pool calculator, going from 0 to 3 FC is only going to take 69 fl oz, so just under one bottle. That seems low to me, but I guess that must be right? I'm assuming a CYA of about 40. I think I need to test that first before I know just how much chlorine to add. Once the water gets high enough to start the pump, is the best way to add chlorine to pour it slowly right in front of the return nozzle?
And yes, I have been doing everything solo so far except for putting down the cement blocks and the assembly of the pool itself. The latter being just about impossible to do single-handed. Fortunately my brother is here visiting on vacation from Denmark, so I put him to work and he will also help with constructing the desk, which we hope to start tomorrow when we know exactly where the top edges end up.
