Recent content by Buggsw

Doubt all you want, but my FC/CYA are maintained just fine - thank you. Of course evaporation itself does not, but It does when you replace water as much as we have to.

This thread is getting stale, but I thought I would add my experience of taking care of my pool for 20+ years in Phoenix. Because our air is so dry, we get so much evaporation, especially in the summer, hence having to fill more often, I have never had CYA get out of bounds (too high) using...

None of the birds I've found were babies. They looked full grown to me. I will move the dead crow regularly. What is interesting now that I think about it, I'm seeing a lot fewer pigeons lately. I wonder if the grackles are a deterrent to pigeons.

I'm ordering a fake dead crow, for sure. Several times in the past 2 or 3 months I've found a dead bird in my pool. I'm thinking they are the "grackles" people are talking about here. It's been so weird to find so many I was beginning to wonder if someone wasn't poisoning birds or something...

As I posted earlier, I also had this happen to mine just yesterday/maybe the day before. I just know it didn't work this morning and I pulled it out of the pool and saw the belt was off the track. Thought I was going to have to travel 40 miles one way to get it fixed. Then I thought, let me...

I just had this happen to mine. Now it isn't running correctly. It moves extra slowly and just isn't acting like it's normal cycle. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and now it seems like it is just going through it's test for a couple minutes then turns off and the light turns red on the...

So you have an empty pool now? When you go to fill it, make a note of what point your water meter is (better, take a pic your water meter reading), then when it is done, take another pic of the water meter. Subtract the first reading from the second reading should give you an almost exact...

You will definitely learn a lot here. Congrats on becoming the owner of a pool. Enjoy!

You need to add another drop to see if it then stays clear. It shouldn't turn back to pink unless you put 5 drops of the reagent used to check for CC's and then only if you have CC's will it tinge or change back to pink. So the answer is that if you add a drop and swirl and it changes to clear...

You should not swim in the water during the conversion.

Glad you found this forum, too. I don't think anyone really understands what crystal clear water really is until they have experienced a BBB pool.

Wow, it seems to be going so quickly. Keep the pics coming.

Very cool pictorial of your pool demo and rebuild. It never ceases to amaze me at the various methods to build a pool.

So, how much progress did they make today? Any new pics? And, wow, that looks like a huge yard.

Congrats, you did a great job.