Recent content by ioinva

VA season runs June through September, with warm water only in July and August -- IF you use a bubble cover to capture the sun heat. That's a lot of work for essentially two months of pool time, which typically coincides when you will be away on your vacations a fair bit. So... a heater is a...

I swear, between my posts, the pool is sparkling clean! This is the current status. I'll post some pictures when we finished cleaning up (ugh!) and filled it. And when it's sparkling clean again. --> Added a post-clean picture taken just now (there is a clear solar cover on the bottom while...

So... clean what I can now, then deal with the stain once the pool is refilled and set up.

I don;t, and the solution worked for a slower jet. When I replaced the filter media last year, the stronger jet kept decoupling the hose. The hose threads were the same size, but the metric to inches difference meant the fit was not perfect. So last year I found an adaptor on etsy and that...

Last winter, the wind managed to blow off the winter cover on my pool, dumping all the "tea" from the cover into the pool. We decided not to empty the pool because we had a particularly cold and long winter (for our region). I removed the cover and drained the pool finally and the mucky water...

Hm... we did have some seriously windy days. It had the wire threaded through eyelets and secired around the pool with a cinching mechanism, like every other year. There was water on top of the tarp, and usually that prevents it from blowing. I'll know more when I retrieve the cinching mechanism...

Third year winterizing the pool rather than folding it away, and it's going downhill. 1st year -- all incredibly easy, recommend, will do it again. 2nd year, we managed to dump the leaf tea filled cover into the clear pool water underneat while uncovering the pool. Okay then. This winter, i...

Good to know. Water temp just dropped below 80… I think I will give it a try.

Probably a code violation— meaning a permit would not be pulled? Meaning this ends up a dyi solution as no electrician would touch it?…

Sharing some solutions i found on etsy for my Intex above ground pool. 1. We have a Hayward through the wall skimmer and associated return eye, so that we can get better flow and cleaning. Love it. The problem was attaching the intex vacuum to the hayward return eye — i used a pump adapter but...