Recent content by Haggises

Apparently my Nextdoor is just a site for local biz ads and grumbles. And now I recall why I deactivated it last year! But thanks for the tip!

Curious if you caught more fish with ebay, marketplace or Craigslist. After 4 years, it time to hang it up. Just have no motivation to keep up maintaining chemistry anymore.

Lesson for the week. Remember Rule 1 - don't get cocky. Eternal vigilance otherwise you don't notice that the robot cleaner didn't charge properly and you didn't up the chlorine after someone slathered on sunscreen and got straight in the pool and then you didn't even look at the pool for three...

Both correct! Hayward skimmer installed. No drain, just me and a cordless drill with a long flex extension for the drill bit. And the spike is from a palm tree floatie cup holder :) You win the interweb's undying affection for the day.

Third year with 24x12 intex ultra. Last year's upgrade was an Intex SWG. Still got algae and I think I know why. Last year's CYA was about 30. SWG was on for 3 hours a day. I don't think I ever understood the keep it above the minimum Chlorine at all times. This year, upped the CYA to 60...

My intex pump (and swg) will run at the same time every day - from whatever the last time was when I manually started it. This morning I set to run for 12 hours at 7am. Until I change it, it will do that every day. It's a bit of a pita when you have to do backwashing and turn the pump off, gets...

My Aiper 600 supply power bit the dust, one full charge after winter storage. Aiper support took a week and a half to tell me that I was out of warranty and luck. Because I'm thrifty (thrifty with a pool seems a bit oxymoronic), rather than spending 45 bucks on a new PS, I thought I'd get a...

Was that possibly misheard from "suck the money from your wallet"?

your pool came with something like this, no? The black plugs can be used to shut off an intake. The filter cap on the left screws off.

I think I have the same kit. Attach one end of the long hose to the tube on the end of the canister. Insert the pole into the blue tube at the same end and the vacuum head to the other end. Other end of the long hose fits on to one of your intake ports inside the pool. Replace the filter cap...

whenever I buy something new, I google the Crud out of it first. Found out about TFP before I ever entered Leslie's. I occasionally go in there as it's the only place to get 12% I've found. I usually end up waiting to buy a 4 pack case behind someone who is facing a CVS-long receipt of chemicals...

I'd love to see a solution for this too. Unfortunately, being a cheaper pump, the Intex don't come with many bells and whistles.

To paraphrase Bilbo Baggins - I used it twice as much as I thought I would, and half as much I should have. Some lessons learned this first year. Commit to the SLAM. Don't half do it or I'll be half doing it for a month or more. Use it more often. Brushing may be more important than vacuuming...