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I am having to add about 2” water every other day. The temp in the pool is a tropical 90* Fahrenheit, the day time temps are 60-70* fahrenheit night time temps drop to 30-40*f, very windy no rain. Is this way out of line for evaporation can find no leaks all plumbing is contained and can be...

Mine is currently at 85f with no cover of any kind, opened it up Friday and reconnected all the plumbing. Fired up the Ngas heater and kids were swimming yesterday, The chem levels are still off a little slammed it hard with shock and had chlorine doses turned up my boy had burning eyes should...

Mine has been running 91-92f but got heater adjusted now to 89f almost perfect swim temp! Get in and relax.... Have foam kit incoming to insulate walls under deck which I hope gives me about 3 extra weeks in fall and 3 weeks in spring so 6 weeks more pool use per year for about 300.00 dollars...

Thanks all for the comments! ONE MAJOR THING!!! Anyone getting ready to or planning to build a pool I can't say this enough build as big a pool as possible if I had it to do ver the pool would have been minimum of 33' long 15'x25' is just about too small. 15'x33' would have been great but live...

Equipment is under the deck on the high end, and thank you for the comment it has been a tuff, long summer but the children are worth the effort put into it not to say I love it also.

This is my humble build. We had the pool installed by local installer, 15' x 25' the pool equipment is as follows Hayward 1.5hp pump with sand filter, chlorine tablet doser, Raypak 106a NG heater. All plumbing and equipment setup was done by myself and helper. The electrical and deck and bath...

Yesterday 83*F the rain and cold weather has been real bummer! It has the Raypak 106a heater running LP but going to convert to natural gas, the LP is running me crazy using 100lb tank it only lasts about week before needing refill. The project is about to be finished up for summer myself and...

I have 106a propane heater under my deck, there is no exhaust and it is under the minimum clearance, I put a heat shield under deck just for safety reasons but have had no issues what so ever yet. It is warm over the unit on the deck, but I can reach in and hold the joists, structure with no...