Recent content by jchawk

Hello, I'm just south of you in Miamisburg. This is a buckeye pool and we have one too. Any luck finding a replacement coping? Thanks!

I have this same coping, on a 'buckeye' pool. Fiberglass upper and gunite bottom pool from the same era. I know this is an old thread but this is the only hit I've found for this coping. Did you ever source a replacement? Thanks!

I used the pool pump :) About 2ft of water to go, should only take about 5 more days! The iron isn't bad if I run it through our whole house filter and water softener. I'll check it after we complete the fill, the bleach is pretty good at converting clear water iron into ferric iron that the...

Yippee, I really dont have much iron post filter and softener. Changing about 70% today, will take about 4 days to fill. I will post up my new fill results before adding anything! Thank you all for your help!

Flooding the entire back 40 :)

Our well has high iron, about 5-8ppm depending on time of year. We use a whole house sediment filter to get the 'red out' and then follow-on with a water softener. The water softener does the brunt of the work and removes the clear water iron. We fill our pool using a line connected to water...

Closed the pool a bit late in the season last year, FWIW decided not to cover this winter. On Saturday water was 59, got to 61 on Sunday and turned green overnight! Shocked the heck out of it with cal hypo granules (power powder), I also use calcium hypochlorite tablets in a feeder. I tend to...