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Good Morning. I'm a 15+ year owner of a 16 x 32 in-ground (vinyl liner) pool with a 9 foot diving well. Our house is on the market so I opened the pool much earlier than normal (late April). We live in Central Illinois. I've been shocking, adding chlorine, adding algacide, vacuuming...

That's a great question. I was always just told it was 28,000 gallons. We have a separate meter outside our house for the hose that fills the pool--I'll let you know when I get my water bill in (checks the date) about a week what they have listed as the "water only" part of our bill (instead...

Thanks all! Yes, it is clear all the way to the bottom. Sort of helps when you have to fill it from empty to full (took four days or so) and our town water is almost over-chlorinated to begin with (water from the faucet sometimes stinks a little...). Vacuumed it for the first time today to get...

Thanks so much for the help and support over the past few weeks/months. About two weeks ago my son and I were able to install our new liner, and everything went SWIMMINGLY. No leaks! We made a new gasket for the opening to the skimmer hole, which seems to be holding up just fine. All we have...

Okey doke. I'll post back tonight whether we're making progress or not. Thanks for the help! Mike

So the problem is that I don't have a seal up by the steps? I'll get out the weights tonight and see what we can figure out. Dare I cut out the part for the steps and "attach" them now? Mike

Hi Folks. Well we're finally getting around to installing our new liner. We successfully got it placed into the pool and have the beads in all the way around and I think it is in the right place. However, the directions make it sound like we need to put a shop vac behind the liner and let it...

Hi folks. This Spring I am (for the first time) replacing my in-ground pool liner (as I've mentioned in a few past threads about this and that). The liner has arrived, and I think that this is the weekend I'm finally going to quit being chicken and take the plunge (heh). I have good rubber...

Hi Kelleyaynn. I am very new to these forums, but have been an in ground pool owner in the midwest for about 15 years or so. The biggest thing I can tell you is be patient. You want get the water crystal clear in a day. I used to panic and run back and forth to the pool store and buy fixer...

Re: How do I remove brackets around the steps to replace lin A-ha! Fantastic! So those plastic things aren't keeping the liner water tight, the metal behind it is. Makes sense! At worst I do minor cosmetic damage to the white plastic things. Will be careful with the screws on the metal parts...

Hi folks. While waiting on that liner to get ordered and delivered, I have another question unrelated to my leak(s). Around where the liner attaches to the steps there are three, I don't know, brackets of some sort (for want of a better word). Do I slide them up and out? Do I just pull them...

Okay, so it probably doesn't help that I'm pumping the water OUT of the pool into the yard about, I don't know, the length of a hose but really only about 10 feet away from the pool itself when all is said and done. I have shut off the hose. I will do the final measurements of the pool...

Okay, here is a link to five photos of the pool. The bottom of the pool is concrete. I realize that I can only fill the liner-less pool up to the level of the water table--with the level below the water table water will leak from the water table to the pool; with the level higher than the...

Sure. I'm at work now but I'll throw a hose in the pool as soon as I get home and also take some photos. Thanks again for your help. And I know nothing about any sort of hydrostatic valve or whatever. Mike

Oh boy. So I don't have the liner yet. Should I just fill up the pool with water right now even without the liner in there? Yikes. Thanks for the quick reply. Mike