Recent content by JoshR

@splat10 Thanks. Looks like a good tip. @PrehistoricPool You were right. It looks like they have a showroom within a few minutes of our house! Everybody else. Found a 3 foot long snake skin dangling out of the return pipe for our hot tub. I've got a pump ordered that is supposed to come...

Yes! They had me covered. It is funny how hard of a time I had trying to use google to figure out how much chlorine I would use. I could get PPM and other measurements but not an actual amount I might use over the Summer. So thanks. @kimkats No I haven't picked out the tile yet. Went to a...

Okay today I talked to the tile guy again and finished removing all of the old tile with an air hammer. Also got to the bottom of the deep end after much pumping, shoveling, and cleaning. Yippee!!! I have a question. As I'm doing all of this I'm working on my chemical strategy. My pool is...

Okay it has been a while. I know. My pool thread doesn't include my "replace clutch on mower" or my "fridge died" or my "stack wood" projects. I couldn't even find this thread when I came back because the forum has been so active! At any rate I have figured out where all my plumbing goes...

I've been spending more time trying to figure out where these pipes come from and where they go. First I started digging in the pool shed following the pipes that stick out of the ground where they were connected to the pumps and filters. I was hoping one of the pairs went out toward the hot...

@kimkats - I didn't know if the thin-set was what held the tile which means i would need to remove and replace when I'm re-tiling or if it just goes behind the tile. If I can just use puddy to stick it back to the tile that would be easier. @riley00dog - Thanks for being the cheering section...

I re-loaded my images on 4/3. I guess I'm still learning the ropes. You can see the thinset for the tile in the same area where the air hose goes over. It is the thin white layer. I worked on digging some more this weekend to try to figure out where the pipes are going. Not as easy as I...

This weekend I started trying to figure out where the plumbing comes and goes. Here are some pictures of our equipment: Unfortunately I can't just turn the pumps on because a lot of the pipes have been broken. There is a spot and a switch for a heater. We had somebody steal a lot of our...

Okay so in the last couple of weeks we drained the hot tub. We also mostly drained the pool. We scraped, raked, and shoveled. Many many wheel barrow loads of weeds and dirt. Partially draining the pool let a lot of the stuff dry out a little bit. It was simply too heavy when it was wet. We...