Recent content by dclayton416

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    20x40 Inground Vinyl Liner

    All patches were in wrinkles on the bottom of the pool. Where the liner is getting brittle and the wrinkles are tearing. I will continue to call around and see if I can get some better numbers. Its pretty much forbidden to drain a vinyl inground pool for any length of time correct? I do have a...
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    20x40 Inground Vinyl Liner

    I have a 20x40 vinyl lined in-ground pool. The pool is about 44 long, if you count the roman end in the deep end and liner covered stairs on the shallow end. I had the liner patched once this year and they said it was getting brittle. He fixed 9 holes in the vinyl. We have since started leaking...
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    Pool Well Pit

    I have new to inground pools. Bought a house last year with a 20x44 inground pool. Never really paid much attention to what i know now as the "sump pit" to control ground water around the pool. I remember looking in it a couple times and never seeing any water level. Recently it seems like our...
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    Pool driving me nuts!!

    I am glad to hear this!! The test strips make no sense! I'm very familiar with testing water, as I work with large industrial boilers and chillers. That what was frustrating me was it wasn't making sense at all with the test strips!
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    Pool driving me nuts!!

    My goal was to start early on the pool to have it open this weekend for swimming. I have a 20x40 inground that is right around 42k gallons. I just purchased the house a few months ago. When I opened the automatic pool cover to my surprise it had quite a good amount of leaves and debris that had...