Recent content by Mandy M.

Now you're just bragging about that chiller! 😉🤣

91F today. I seem to have hit a plateau. It's so hot outside here, that may be as good as it gets. Or at least super slow cooling.

Still 92 this morning! 🥵

Beautiful backyard!

I'll check and report back! Planning to run the pump all night with water feature and aerators.

I have a love/hate relationship with our trees. They dump a TON of Crud in my pool and I am constantly netting it out, but the whole pool is in shade by 3-4 in the afternoon, and the deep end is shaded by noon. I don't think we've ever gotten out of the 80s before, although I don't regularly...

What's funny (not funny) is that my husband and I were talking about chillers on vacation and decided it wasn't worth the $ because our pool normally stays cooler than most due to the shade. 😭

The pool. We did run the pump last night to keep them going. They're pretty dinky though. Tonight we'll run the big water feature I didn't think about turning on... it's loud, but runs a good amount of water thru.

You'd have to put so much to have an effect, it's not worth the $.

We came home from vacation to discover our heater on and the whole pool heated to 99F. 🙈 Will it cool or are we doomed to swim in a hot tub the rest of the summer?? We're in Houston, so it's about that hot outside. The pool does get shade a good part of the day.

Hmm. It hasn't been sunny all week. I will do another CYA test as soon as we get sone good light. My chlorine finally dropped overnight! Down to 17.5 FC, 0 CC. I will add more today. Thank you for your help! I am learning in leaps and bounds since I fired my pool company... in hindsight, I...

I dropped a chlorine puck onto a yellow spot, and low and behold, that spot was perfectly clean when I moved it. Is it possible I don't have enough chlorine?? Leslie's got a higher CYA reading than I did. Maybe they were right.

I do have a steel brush, but don't use it as much because it is hard to push. 😬 I will use it today. Vitamin C did nothing. What would cause calcium staining if my CH is only 325? Is there anything to do for that? I can probably get a chlorine puck from a neighbor to try that.

I can't get a good picture... looks fine in the picture, not to the eye. No, I do not have a chlorinator, but I also did not retest after adding the amount recommended by the pool calculator. I should have. That said, it was 22 yesterday, and 22 this morning. Zero change. I have vitamin C...

CH is 300-325.