What did you do to your pool today?

[BDY]

I’ll see that and raise you “oh it’s up too somehwere we’ll have to search the store.. we have no idea where overnight stock put it”

 

[poolmagazine]

How about carefully researching which HD has availability of the item … driving to that one (of course not the closest) and then finding the computer had an “inventory error”… and then repeat ….

I no longer trust small quantities on anyone’s website

Amazon is just as much fun, ordered a pool cleaner and got an above-ground pool pump instead. It's like going to the sushi bar, forget what I ordered just bring me whatever you like.

 

[JamesW]

Part of the problem is due to customers that put parts in their cart and then they decide that they don’t want them and just stick the parts back anywhere.

So, maybe you get a circuit breaker in the paint department or a chainsaw in the lighting section.

Grocery stores have the same problem.

Yesterday, I saw a package of expired hamburger in the bulk candy bin.

The hamburger juices were leaking out of the package and soaking into the candy.

 

[Dirk]

Just to keep us grounded (and believe me, I got the same stories), too many on our planet haven't even seen, let alone eaten, hamburger, expired or otherwise. Don't know what candy is. And if they ever found themselves in a Home Depot with even half of its normal inventory, would faint on the spot, their brains having kicked in to protect them from a delusion that can't possibly be real. For some, the only "Amazon" they will ever know is their backyard! Just sayin...

 

[BDY]

Totally true… a lifetime of working around the world made me appreciate this country so much more

 

[JamesW]

Totally true… a lifetime of working around the world made me appreciate this country so much more

I was shopping on Via Monte Napoleone in Milan last week and the prices were ridiculous.

So, I totally know what you mean.

 

[magiteck]

Anyone ever bet themselves that the one open slot down the aisle is where your part would be if they had it, before you get there ?

Yup. That's WHERE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN !!!

HD and Lowes I try to online order for pick-up… that way they can do the hunting and making sure they really have it instead of me.

Usually works out but sometimes I don’t have time to wait.

Although in my neck of the woods I typically have better luck with “one stop” shopping at Menards.

 

[JamesW]

My personal jeweler was out of town last month, I needed some jewelry and I couldn’t wait, so I went to one of those national retail jewelry stores and it was horrible.

The gold was all 14K and the diamonds were dinky, poorly cut and cloudy.

It really makes you appreciate the things you have when you go through something like that.

 

[Wolfepack88]

The question is never how many trips to HD, but how many HDs you needed to visit to get all 17 parts you needed.

3 parts at 4th av HD
6 parts at Main st HD
Front street said they had 7 parts but only had 2
1 part at Bridge st HD........

I HATE that place with the fire of 1000 suns. .

This is so true. I remember when they had a master plumber and electrician at the stores and they actually had people that knew what they were doing. I actually was in there and began straightening one section because it was so messy and item A was in Item B's bin etc and a manager walked by and asked me if I wanted a job. I so wanted to say, how about getting your employees to do their jobs. I usually go to ACE hardware to support the local business but they don't have the breadth of inventory sometimes.

 

[Wolfepack88]

Part of the problem is due to customers that put parts in their cart and then they decide that they don’t want them and just stick the parts back anywhere.

So, maybe you get a circuit breaker in the paint department or a chainsaw in the lighting section.

Grocery stores have the same problem.

Yesterday, I saw a package of expired hamburger in the bulk candy bin.

The hamburger juices were leaking out of the package and soaking into the candy.

It's sickening how lazy and inconsiderate some people are today. I watch people take time to prop a cart's wheels up on belgian blocks in the grocery store parking lot and the cart return is 10 feet away. Many of us grew up when there was no such thing as a cart return it was called your arms and legs bringing the cart back to the store itself.

 

[Wolfepack88]

I'm in the same boat. I thought I had overdosed CYA a bit, a couple months ago. Got a result of 80. Yesterday it was down to 50. My original dose should not have ended up at 80, so there was probably some sort of user testing error. But dropping 30 pts is unusual none the less. I dosed it back up a few days ago, and it's still shy as of yesterday. But I have a cartridge filter and add CYA in the skimmer in a sock, so the mushed crystals might still be trapped in my filter. So I'll wait a few more days, maybe a week, before I test/dose again.

Point being: how you dose and where and what type of filter you have can affect your initial CYA test results. It's not really pressing, so it's better to err on the side of caution and not rush the test result. A few extra days, or even a week, is not that long in the grand scheme of maintaining FC.

I used the skimmer sock hung in front of a pool return and I have a cartridge filter.

 

[Dirk]

Totally true… a lifetime of working around the world made me appreciate this country so much more

Never knew what I had until I started traveling internationally, in my 40s. There's really no way to teach that to "youngins." It has to be experienced.

Ironically, and this just might be my privilege talking, those without didn't seem less happy than me. Happier if anything.

I have to pinch myself every once in a while, especially when I'm griping about something here. On a forum dedicated to pool owners. Because I own a pool. That evaporates more water each day than some might use in a month.

OK, I have to climb down now. My soap box is all rough and it hurts my tender feet.

 

[Dirk]

I used the skimmer sock hung in front of a pool return and I have a cartridge filter.

That's the second fastest way to get it to register on a test, so you can safely test sooner than I can.

Though depending on the proximity of the sock to the skimmer mouth, it's still possible some of it got sucked up and is stuck in the cartridge. Wouldn't be much, though.

The fastest way is the @kimkats method. Fill a sock with CYA and wade around in your pool, squeezing as you go, until it's all dissolved.

 

[kimkats]

It is also the funnest way!!!

 

[JamesW]

I watch people take time to prop a cart's wheels up on Belgian blocks in the grocery store parking lot and the cart return isn't 10 feet away.

10 feet is a long way and I am a busy person; I can't be walking all the way to the cart corral to return a cart.

The best I can do is push the cart in the general direction of the corral and it gets as close as it gets.

 

[Dirk]

It's sickening how lazy and inconsiderate some people are today. I watch people take time to prop a cart's wheels up on belgian blocks in the grocery store parking lot and the cart return is 10 feet away. Many of us grew up when there was no such thing as a cart return it was called your arms and legs bringing the cart back to the store itself.

Was that before handicap spaces (are they still called that)? I watched a woman pull into a handicap parking space the other day, in front of a doctor's office she had to know is always full of the elderly about to get, or recovering from, an eye operation rendering one eye temporarily blind, then hop out, walk across the parking lot to meet someone else, then together stroll back across the parking lot to the same doctor's office. The guy's car had several empty spots right next to it. She actually drove out of her way to use that handicap spot! And walked farther than she had to in doing so! I was stunned and mystified.

OK, gotta pinch myself again, cause I'm griping again! Then go for a walk, then go swimming later tonight. (See what I did there? Not hijacking!)

 

[Mdragger88]

This is so true. I remember when they had a master plumber and electrician at the stores and they actually had people that knew what they were doing. I actually was in there and began straightening one section because it was so messy and item A was in Item B's bin etc and a manager walked by and asked me if I wanted a job. I so wanted to say, how about getting your employees to do their jobs. I usually go to ACE hardware to support the local business but they don't have the breadth of inventory sometimes.

When I was pregnant with my daughter I took leave from my Union electrician job & I applied at Home Depot & Lowes I figured it would be fun & help fill the gap of my unpaid leave - i was repeatedly told I was over qualified & never got a job.

 

[Wolfepack88]

When I was pregnant with my daughter I took leave from my Union electrician job & I applied at Home Depot & Lowes I figured it would be fun & help fill the gap of my unpaid leave - i was repeatedly told I was over qualified & never got a job.

That's crazy and shows how their model changed. Like everything most companies stop innovating and creating value and choose the easy path and look to cost cut. One company actually learned the hard way, Speed Queen when they changed their design of their washer and it was a disaster and then they brought it back as the classic. A rare correction but most won't do it.

 

[Newdude]

I was shocked to learn the HD guy in the electric aisle had no business giving advice. Literally.

I was replacing the outlet before the new stove came and the label on the box seemed wrong. In hindsight, the 2 hot legs on the outlet were clearly the same, and the ground was the odd man out. My gut knew better but it's always better to ask, right ? HD guy assured me the label was right so I marched home and hooked it up as it said.

When the stove came I got blasted while pushing it into place because the stainless was hot from wiring it up wrong.

 

[Wolfepack88]

I was shocked to learn the HD guy in the electric aisle had no business giving advice. Literally.

I was replacing the outlet before the new stove came and the label on the box seemed wrong. In hindsight, the 2 hot legs on the outlet were clearly the same, and the ground was the odd man out. My gut knew better but it's always better to ask, right ? HD guy assured me the label was right so I marched home and hooked it up as it said.

When the stove came I got blasted while pushing it into place because the stainless was hot from wiring it up wrong.

You were lucky to not get seriously hurt. My older bro is an electrician and he yelled at me once when I faced timed him to help with something and I said I cut the breaker when he asked me did I shut off the power. He said did I use my tester to test to be sure. I had not and he told me anything mechanical can fail and you always test even though you cut the breaker. That's why they tend to use fuses in commercial/industrial applications.