Recent content by brainchasm

So, the surface of my pool is flaking and such. I'm guessing the pool went in when the house was built, so 1987. I just had someone out to quote the refurb, and for a 6000gal, 67ft perimeter, it came to about $6000 for chipping out, replacing with white quartz plaster, new quartzite flagstones...

Overdue update: Everything went perfect. I got them some borax, and we decided to do 40ppm (borax can be hard to find sometimes, and 40ppm took ten boxes!). Keeping up with the chlorine and such. I brush it when I'm there, but I'm fairly sure Dad doesn't. Oh well, can't win them all. He...

I'm losing on average about an inch a day, from a relatively small pool. Gotta love that Vegas heat!

My ex (good terms) comes over to swim fairly often, and her running joke/compliment, especially when other people are around, is to look at the pool and go, "Is there even water in it?" "Yes, it's always filled up Meg." "Oh ok, I couldn't tell, it's so clean! ;) " And I smirk, and she grins...

Poolcalc said baking soda would minimally impact pH; I put 750 oz of baking soda in a 40k gal pool in poolcalc, and it said pH would only move by 0.17 or something. Was it missing a decimal place or two?

Nevermind, 6.8 is safe enough for the nonce. Aerate if you can, and if your TA really is 10ppm, budget for some baking soda...like 750 oz of it!

pH tests can't be trusted when the FC is very high. Wait for it to come down to 10 or less. And whatever you do, don't use anything that will add CYA! You're at such a nice number right now, it'd be a shame to spike it and make life harder and more expensive.

I hope that amount was 2 cups. Because my 6000gal pool took 3 cups to get to 30ppm, so your pool should take just 2 cups to get to the same place.

Update: Drained, scrubbed, unscrewed the returns (and fixed one), unscrewed the fiber optic lighting fixtures and pulled out....something organic....and growing..... Refilled, and conveniently, at the 16000gal estimate, his pool needs 4lbs of CYA. Walmart sells a bottle of CYA that...

This, minus the sprinkler bit.

I propose KICK. Keep It Cheap, Kids. Because in reality, that's what BBB is really doing.

Use rock salt shells! Add salt to water, salt the duck, and (maybe) not hurt the liner! http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 318AAydHIj

Rubber snakes solved my pigeons-drinking-and-crapping-on-the-edge problem! YMMV.

Understood. Las Vegas is pretty safe AFAICT. Foreclosures around here routinely leave empty pools for months. Never seen one float (that's gotta be something to see!).

Current pic!