Recent content by Captchaos

Would you mind sharing who you used? This is happening to my pool as well, also due to poor ground prep where a bunch of fill dirt was brought in to level the hill.

I just checked Swimply and my neighbor’s pool isn’t listed. Perhaps they had a bad experience or came to their senses. I did find a waterfront home that was recently for sale (2 years ago?) about ten minutes away that has their pool for rent for $20/hour! They’ll even let you use the dock for...

I never did figure out what was going on, but we didn’t have any uninvited visitors last year. I did notice that my neighbor down the street didn’t have their pool listed last year, but the weird thing was at least one of the people had my specific address. The houses on my side of the street...

Ugh I've seen hotel pools with cleaner water than that video. That homeowner certainly doesn't know about this website!

Good call, last month I checked to make sure some scam artist wasn’t listing my house but I should check regularly. No easy way to block the pool unless I plant a bunch of trees which then blocks my view of the open lot I own and cut for a nice view. You can’t really see into the pool since it’s...

That’s an interesting thought. I don’t plan to go that far though, it may not be for me but I can’t blame him for wanting to rent his pool if he’s not using it and is willing to deal with it. If it becomes a real problem I guess I’ll walk down there and ask him to be a little more clear with...

It's definitely his listing, it has his name and information that you wouldn't know unless you were familiar with the property (solar heater, saltwater, etc.).

Yes, Swimply was the first place I checked and sure enough, the neighbor's listing was right there. I did check Facebook previously the first time it happened and they had my address and assumed that's exactly what they were doing; satellite views are easy to find pools and I imagine this sort...

So this has happened a couple times now, fortunately we've been home both times. Back in June we're enjoying our pool and two strange cars show up in the driveway. I ask if I can help them, "Hi we're here for a pool rental?" Uhh, not at this house? She had my address but someone else's name...

I imagine a new valve can fail too and you wouldn’t know if it had a slow air leak like mine. It seemed to be holding air fine when I closed it. I considered adding in some threaded ports or something so I could add in antifreeze but decided against it because of comments here that the water...

Yup, that’s exactly right! It froze and cracked right below the valve at the pad. I don’t know if the valve just never held air completely and it was just extra cold this year or if it failed this year. Fortunately it didn’t fail underground because that would’ve sucked even more for many...

Following up on this. I used a Drain King for 1-3” pipe and it worked perfectly. The reviews have tons of people who popped theirs immediately but I think they inflated it too fast and used too much water pressure. The directions say to turn the water on slowly which I did and it threaded right...

Appreciate it here too, especially after I just came inside fixing my issues for the year too. Fortunately no tile or skimmer issues but one of my valves for the floor drains failed and let the air lock free and it froze and burst. I caught it in February and it was an ordeal to fix but I don’t...

Thank you all, I guess it’s also possible that this valve already leaked a little bit before (even from new?) and it just didn’t get cold enough the last few years to cause damage. Judging by my electric bill, it was a bit colder this year than at least last year. Even a tiny leak the allows the...

Thanks, I hadn’t come across the bread idea. I did finally find a video showing a pool company that uses a Drain King which attaches to a garden hose and inflates which will stop the water. I can thread the hose through the new valve, block the water, clean it up and glue it and then remove it...