Recent content by jnd5309

It's a guard to keep swimmers from being trapped between the pool liner and the ladder rungs. It attaches to the ladder between the back of the rungs and the pool wall. I hated mine, it made the ladder even more difficult to pull every night, so I took it off. Not telling anyone else they...

boon - I had a similar problem. After following the Pool School article for opening a seasonal/temporary pool to a tee, I used dichlor as suggested in that post -- and at the end of a week had no measurable CYA. I added a small amount of CYA in a sock -- a week later still nothing. I knew I had...

Your friend really needs to join the forum! It's much easier to speak directly to the person with the problem. We've lived on a shallow well for fifteen years now, had a whole-house system installed about four years after we moved in. We had a soft water issue with our spa and had to add...

OK how's this for pool drama? On the chicken forum I am also addicted to, someone posted pics of their three chickens happily swimming in their pool WITH the kids! First thing I thought: Her water is pretty but hello - chicken poop? I am ocd enough with SAND! I actually asked the lady if there...

I had Where's My Droid on my last phone, never got around to downloading it on the replacement Verizon had to send me... Hmmm. Gotta go, Android Market is calling me! Thanks for the reminder post.

Zip ties. Where are the zip ties required with Redneck engineering?

The bent pole isn't even under the belt! They will be riding the wave shortly. Right into the neighbor's yard!

Whoa -- kinda OT here, but your signature caught my eye! What did you get in place of the 'A' cartridge? Curious.

Hahahah. Laughed really loud at that. Thanks for the smile on this dreary day.

I just did a search on "windsail" and got a TON of websites returned. Now I want one in my back yard. :rant:

Have you seen the triangular "windsail" shades that seem to be the rage these days? Don't know the dimensions of your pool, but I've seen some pretty big sails out there. They stand on poles, similar to a dining tent, but it's only a triangular "roof", no sides. Usually two corners are higher...

Sooooo - I assume I move really conservatively here? And tell the calculator it's at 20, just to be safe?

Thanks for the quick responses, guys. CYA test is that which comes in the TF-100 test kit. Don't know the concentration of the dichlor off the top of my head, and I've thrown out the packaging already. I'll slide by Lowes and check it on the way home.

Help! The water truck was here last Wednesday and I diligently followed the instructions in the article "Beginners Guide for Seasonal/Temporary Pools". Added enough chlorine to get it to 6 ppm the first night, and jumped in. After our first swim I added dichlor as directed for the four days...