So this happened

[Newdude]

Your going to be up all night watching this fill up aren’t you?

*with any luck it won't be all that late when it gets as high as the light. I'm up until 12- 12:30 most nights anyway. If it goes real late, I may have to execute a sick day tomorrow.

You see, I'd be afraid that in my weakened condition, I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further work absences.

 

[Newdude]

Over the hump and 10 or so inches to go.






This feels so crazy. Monday at closing time they were real confident they'd have the liner today or tomorrow.

 

[JamesW]

Everyone who has posted on this thread has to send newdude a pool warming gift.

I'm sending a Mastertemp 400,000 btu/hr heater.

It should be arriving "soon".

 

[JamesW]

You see, I'd be afraid that in my weakened condition, I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further work absences.

Life moves pretty fast.

If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

 

[Orion7319]

You see, I'd be afraid that in my weakened condition, I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further work absences.

I thought you guys in NY could just claim that you can’t work due to the weather..

 

[JamesW]

I'm sending a Mastertemp 400,000 btu/hr heater.

My logic is that if you are going to send a pool warming gift, the gift should be able to warm the pool.

 

[Orion7319]

My logic is that if you are going to send a pool warming gift, the gift should be able to warm the pool.

Would calcium chloride count?

 

[Noreaster]

I need the height for leverage to bend the first couple inches that have the bonds. After that I could whack the excess. Great idea !!

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Make sure you know what you are doing there. Those 4 points are part of the electric code and are inspected. They are also where the equal potential grid that is placed under the pavers (or the rebar in a concrete deck) is bonded too.

Example:

 

[Snoobug]

UMMMM HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS WAS HAPPENING?!?!?!?!? YES I'M YELLING. YOU NEVER SAID A WORD.

Look, I don't turn my phone landscape except to take pics so I don't see profile info. I'm so torn right now. Like, I'm mad but so HAPPY for you too. But like mad.

 

[Snoobug]

It's filling?!? So what are the plans for around the pool?!? I'm dying to know more. Spill. Every detail. I must know!

 

[Snoobug]

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU SAT THERE QUIETLY. Yes I plan on storming back into the room yelling.

 

[Newdude]

It's filling?!? So what are the plans for around the pool?!? I'm dying to know more. Spill. Every detail. I must know

For starters I need to get more fill dirt and top soil. Then I rent a trencher and replace most of the back yard's sprinklers. The old configuration had a large area missing where the above ground pool was, and I added a big area in the back that I cut down overgrowth to turn into yard. Then they whacked 6 sprinkler zones with the excavator. I have 900ft of pipe, 20 heads and a box of fittings/clamps ready to go, and I'll be on my way having slightly less muddy dogs.

Then the area between the existing patio and the pool gets indoor/outdoor carpet for now while some sort of patio waits until the ground settles. The patio is up in the air completely. The original plan was to keep the existing large brick patio and tie something into it but the slope was more than I thought and the pool side of the house patio needs to come up about 6 inches. Or we leave it and have one step up to a walking strip around the pool. I dunno yet.

I might leave the back side of the pool with no patio and landscape with some sort of rocks and stepping stones.

 

[Newdude]

@KfenTx it was full to the red line at midnight, a hair over 11 hours for about 20k gallons. Using the 1 inch sprinkler line helped a good deal. How ever many hours longer it would have taken with garden hoses would have had me up most the night waiting for it.

 

[Newdude]

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU SAT THERE QUIETLY. Yes I plan on storming back into the room yelling.

You were gone tending to your pool, we started the weekend after we got you opened up. (Again, SWEET job). I took Easter weekend to be be dug/shelled and then there was a bunch of thumb twiddling.

 

[Snoobug]

Gratuitous upstairs shot.

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Your yard is huge!! How deep is your pool?

 

[KfenTx]

That musta been pricey. I needed 6 gals and it was $35+ each.

My pool store / PB explained to me today that they stopped selling it as it never gave them the results they expected when they used half of the gallon. Bless their hearts.

They also said I'd be fine with no CYA for 2 weeks. Um. Yeah. No.

$130 for 3 gallons so yeah. But 24lbs of dry wasn't going to be peanuts either. I'll switch to it for maintenance though

No CYA for 2 weeks?! How much LC would you end up burning (literally) through?! No thanks.

Annnnnnnd I just realized my poolmath app was set to "dry stabilizer" and not liquid. So I don't have enough. Good thing I'm not the one filling a pool lol

 

[Newdude]

Annnnnnnd I just realized my poolmath app was set to "dry stabilizer" and not liquid. So I don't have enough. Good thing I'm not the one filling a pool lol

I needed 6 gallons of liquid or 20lb of granular CYA for 0-70 with 34k gallons. (To be crept up to in case the estimated pool volume is off, of course)

 

[KfenTx]

I needed 6 gallons of liquid or 20lb of granular CYA for 0-70 with 34k gallons. (To be crept up to in case the estimated pool volume is off, of course)

Yeah I got thrown off by it giving me both ounces and lbs, assuming the oz was for liquid and lbs was for dry. Then I noticed the settings and as you can imagine, the requirements changed drastically once I switched it to liquid. Ah well. It's only money right

 

[Homebrewale]

My logic is that if you are going to send a pool warming gift, the gift should be able to warm the pool.

I could warm the pool but it may mess up the chemistry.

 

[Newdude]

I could warm the pool but it may mess up the chemistry.

Go ahead. You'll drop me to 12 FC and save me having to turn off the runaway SWG.