What did you do to your pool today?

[Dirk]

They must be claiming that people clean them often/monthly. Mine take about 20 mins at a rough estimate of 5 GPM. Even at 60 mins it's only 300 gallons with large carts that need cleaning once a year.

In my case it would take me longer to load them up and bring them to/fro.

The closed system is a neat idea but whatever they're using to filter their water then needs to be cleaned.

I'm going to half-bury a pressure-treated 2x8 along this line, which will divert whatever water I use directly to my pal Oakie. He's always thirsty, and he'll love a good, long soak. I figure I'm not wasting water, I'm irrigating.

 

[jark87]

Power washed around 1,000 sqft of exposed aggregate decking. Waiting for the shade to hit the back section so I can take down my golf net and move the furniture off. It’s gotta be at least 30° hotter out there than in the shade!

 

[Texas Splash]

What did I do to my pool today? I fell in it, and not on purpose. While brushing, I took a wrong step and "SPLOOSH!", in I went, and not in a good way. Caught my hip with on the coping, the scraped both legs, my forearm, and sprained my wrist. Like a WWE event in the backyard. My son was out there are was worried about my glorious misfortune. Needless to day, this afternoon has been an experiment of prescription meds coupled with a couple brews to take the edge off. Tomorrow should be interesting.

On a positive note, the pool looks great and my cell phone survived because I always place it somewhere safe before I do pool chores for this very reason.

 

[Homebrewale]

I put the hose in the pool yesterday to add some water. I only had about an inch left on the skimmer. Then later in the day I went to test the water. When I saw the water was now about the skimmers, I realized I forgot all about turning off the water.

 

[needsajet]

I fell in it, and not on purpose.

This is an important Public Service Announcement.
Ouch, mate. Big owie. As I get older and sense reduced balance, I think I'll get added to the list one of these days. Feel for you and would do the same painkiller-beer-human relationship! Good luck with it

 

[AUSpool]

What did I do to my pool today? I fell in it, and not on purpose. While brushing, I took a wrong step and "SPLOOSH!", in I went, and not in a good way. Caught my hip with on the coping, the scraped both legs, my forearm, and sprained my wrist. Like a WWE event in the backyard. My son was out there are was worried about my glorious misfortune. Needless to day, this afternoon has been an experiment of prescription meds coupled with a couple brews to take the edge off. Tomorrow should be interesting.

On a positive note, the pool looks great and my cell phone survived because I always place it somewhere safe before I do pool chores for this very reason.

Here’s for a speedy recovery. Removing the cell phone and wallet is always a good ‘just in case’ moment. Plus it’s good brain exercise trying to remember where you left them.

I feel your pain. I fell in our pool before the pebble was done. That raw concrete is very sharp…

 

[kimkats]

Put some ice on that bad boy and keep it wrapped up and above your heart as much as possible.

 

[kne]

I woke up at 5:45am this morning in full panic. Why? you ask.... at 9:15pm last night I decided to add just one more inch of water to the pool

So I ran around the yard, no contacts, blind as a bat, trying to find a hose for the sump pump and once the level goes down I will be rebalancing all the chemicals, which were perfect last night. Not looking forward to the next water bill.

 

[Mdragger88]

I woke up at 5:45am this morning in full panic. Why? you ask.... at 9:15pm last night I decided to add just one more inch of water to the pool

So I ran around the yard, no contacts, blind as a bat, trying to find a hose for the sump pump and once the level goes down I will be rebalancing all the chemicals, which were perfect last night. Not looking forward to the next water bill.

Oh no!
Always use a timer - or three if you’re me lol
When draining or filling! I have literally overflowed my hot tub while I was sitting right next to it because I thought I was paying attention and didn’t need one

 

[Newdude]

+1. Cell timers are your friend.

 

[kne]

Always use a timer - or three if you’re me lol

+1. Cell timers are your friend.

LOL, the worst part about this, I am the queen of timers. My husband hates Jeff Bezos purely based on the number of times I talk to Alexa and ask her to set timers for me. Last night I just needed 5 more minutes... never again, even if I just need 3 minutes, a timer will be set. I didn't even have adult beverages to blame on the situation, ugh.

Today is going to be 105, through the weekend will be 95-102 so the ground should dry up. all the water came out of the skimmer so just the one corner of the yard flooded and the standing water is already long gone, so that is a plus. I did want to lower my TA, but I thought it was going to cost $50 in muriatic acid, not $100 in water.

When S/O and I first started dating, he came out to my town for dinner, halfway through he remembered that he started topping off the turtle tank 2 hours prior. This morning when I came inside, he asked why I jumped out of bed and ran outside (I thought I had been stealth, nope) I told him I forgot to turn off the water to the pool, but at least *I* didn't flood the inside of the house!

 

[Homebrewale]

So I'm not the only one to overfill the pool.

 

[Homebrewale]

Yesterday I use the pressure washer to clean the whole concrete deck around the pool. Looked cleaner in the bright sunlight. In the lower light of the evening, it still has the red clay color imbeded in the concrete, just lighter. I'll probably put up with it for a few more years and then get it restained. Maybe to a color similar to our dirt.

 

[kellyfair]

Drained water, again, in advance of today’s deluge.

 

[Dirk]

I woke up at 5:45am this morning in full panic. Why? you ask.... at 9:15pm last night I decided to add just one more inch of water to the pool

So I ran around the yard, no contacts, blind as a bat, trying to find a hose for the sump pump and once the level goes down I will be rebalancing all the chemicals, which were perfect last night. Not looking forward to the next water bill.

I flooded my side yard a week ago. Chewed myself out for breaking my now-cardinal rule: DON'T START A HOSE RUNNING WITHOUT FIRST SETTING A TIMER!!

Then I flooded another section of yard a few days later! Geezus. This time, I started the hose, with the express mission to walk straight to the timer to set it. That's the brain I now find myself with. Between the time I left that hose to walk to the timer, I forgot to set it. Next morning I had a small sink hole open up.

And this year I've been upping my watering schedule to see if I can keep my garden alive this summer. It's been brutalized the last two, due to the heat. I shudder to think what the increased watering schedule and TWO overnight "oopsies" is going to cost me...

 

[AUSpool]

I bought and installed one of those retractable hose thingos that comes with a trigger nozzle. No water coming out is a trap. I didn’t turn it off at the tap and the pressure blew the nozzle off. Sitting inside I think, “what’s that running water sound?”

I’ve left the hose on it the pool too. I bought one of these things.


That thing was a bit cheep and eventually I made my own with 2” pressure fittings and a side entry toilet valve.

I installed a self leveling device in the new pool. A float valve and overflow combo, every pool should have one.

 

[Dirk]

every pool should have one

I've said that many times! I don't have to winterize, nor do I live in a place where it rains all the time, but adding auto-leveling (filling and overflow) to a build is so cheap, and either or both can later be defeated if not needed, or blown out for the winter, that it just makes no sense not to include it.

The systems are not infallible, and that is often cited as the reason for not wanting one. But that's nothing a good pool cam won't address. The two times my auto-fill was stuck on cost nothing compared to the number of times I would have overflowed my pool if it was left to me to remember to shut off the hose!!

 

[black117]

What am I doing to my pool today?
I'm blessing its mystical waters with my half-naked body

 

[Dirk]

Testing my pool in advance of my annual 4th of July party. Expecting 30-40 people, so I'll be pre-bumping the FC. But 100+ degree heat will be a first this year, which means increased "fluid" consumption! I'll test FC and pH again around late afternoon. They're all pee-ers, I just know it!!

Happy 4th everybody!!

 

[Homebrewale]

Generally, I rarely need to add water due to rain. Around 3 years ago, I went a whole summer without adding water. This summer is different. We went 20 straight days without rain and temperatures in the upper 90s before finally getting 0.5" of rain this week. I never felt the need for an autofill before. But the pool at my new house doesn't have a bottom drain so I have to watch the water level closer to be sure it doesn't fall to the bottom of the skimmers.