Recent content by bigevilgrape

We have ours on a patio next to the pool that has old, dark pavers, so I've never noticed anything. I try to keep it covered to minimize water getting into it. The cover will also make the firepit last longer. My landmann pit also suggested adding some sand to the bottom to help extend it's...

For less then $30 you should be able to find the leaf vacs that hook up to a garden hose and do the same thing. If you dig aroud more you can probably find them cheaper then the on in that link too. If I don't want to add water my pool I just hook the garden hose up to my cover pump instead...

Yes to running the Pump 24/7 until you pass all the criteria. You should add chlorine as needed to keep it at SLAM level for your CYA. Keeping the chlorine up in that high zone is whats going to kill the alge. Test, add chlorine brush repeat.

Order at least two.

Yeah the small birds poop on the cover too, but less winds up in the pool that way. I see it more as training the ducks to go find a better place to call home then my pool. they seem to stop coming around after a while. I do have a birdbath for the small birds and I'm going to add a small...

Solar cover helps with my ducks because they are mostly in it for a place to swim. It doesn't help with other birds tho. Please make sure you do ot use anything that reduces surface tension of the water if baby ducks are present. If it makes them sink they won't have the ability to fly away...

Looks like i'll be saving up chlorine jugs for next year. I had a few set aside, but not nearly enough for this year.

I don't need them to last year after year, I"m just sick of 1/2 the bags leaking when I go to fill them up.

I'm getting sick of going to close the pool with a whole new batch of water bags and having 1/2 of them leak out of the box. I was getting them at Ocean State Joblot. This year I got them at Leslie's this year and the closures are nicer, but still half of them leaked. I'm about ready to just...

i was just gone for six days and did 3 tabs in my pool with a solar cover. I put the floater under the cover in the deep end in front of a return because I wasn't sure how much it would move under the cover. Brought the pool up to the high end of the recommended level for my CYA before I left...

I was gone for 5 days. I had the solar cover on the pool + a floater with some pucks in it. Came back to a clear pool with some chlorine still in it. My brother was pet sitting for me, but I think he only swam once since the weather was cool. As long as your CYA isn't too high pucks are OK...

I'm up several inches this week :P

At the bottom of the pool math page there is a spot to see what happens if you add different things to the pool. If you know his pool volume you can see what those pucks are doing.

Marvin II My other half suggested Martin but I misheard it as Marvin (the peranoid android) and it stuck.

This. I also make sure the pump is off when my robot is running as per the manual for my previous robot.