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They must be older units. More recently, they put such little refrigerant in them, that if the temperature drops below 53F, the compressor just dry-cycles, as the small amount of liquid refrigerant in the system is all pooled in the condenser. It's a serious problem, for anyone who keeps newer...

Thanks for posting that. I just finished watching the entire video, which was very interesting. Took a bit of a dark turn just before the 12:00 mark, but that's reality.

I'm pretty friendly with a guy from Fairbanks AK, and actually one of my son's three piano teachers is temporarily stationed there (military), as well. It's so cold that car batteries and transmission fluid freeze solid, so you need to either park your vehicles in heated buildings, or set...

Oh, and pool photo. 🥲

Well, I got out to the chemical cabinet before sunset, which thankfully is getting a little later each day now. There was no chlorine, I remember now I dumped the last two gallons on-hand into the pool before closing. There was one gallon of RV antifreeze, one gallon of 31% muriatic, and...

Back before I heated my garage, I found that the temperature was highly dependent on how often we drove the vehicles stored in each garage. The vehicles themselves come back from each trip with a cold body and chassis, which initially makes the garage feel cold when standing near the vehicle...

Main concern would be rupturing the bottle and having a mess, likely not much more. And I just came in from 90 minutes of clearing snow, and realized I forgot to dig out and check the chemical cupboard. Oops... not going back out now, it's quarter 'till midnight and I have an early meeting.

Well, either way, I'd better make sure there's none left outside. My little storage bin probably stays a few degrees warmer than the overnight low, but not much. We were showing several mornings of 3 - 4 F in this morning's forecast, but now they've updated that to 6 - 8 F. Of course, the...

I heat my garages to 55F, due to refrigerators and freezers malfunctioning much below that, so no issue in there. I’m wondering why Google returned 17F as the freezing point at 10% chlorine, the 7F number makes more sense, otherwise I’d have had more trouble in past years. This will be the...

I see the local forecast for this week is for a bunch of 3F - 4F mornings, and at least a few days with highs in the teens. So a reminder to those in the northeast... check your chemical storage! I know 31% Muriatic won't freeze above -80F, but I think 10% Chlorine is only good down to +19F...

Pool was closed on Saturday. We had 29F this morning, so it was time. Water was holding 60F in the several days prior to closing. I decided to take all of the SWG components and plumbing and put it into a patio storage chest that's used for the pool cover in summer. It's dry and out of the...

Thanks! Done.

I cannot find a single recommendation for dosing amount of PQ60 at closing. It’s not on the bottle, and Google just says follow bottle. How many oz per gallon?

I guess I don't follow the logic that if PQ60 lowers FC, you should only do it when FC is already lower. If it knocks FC down by a greater amount when FC is high, seems like FC will just converge closer to the same value, either way. We have been at 35F - 36F the last several mornings, so I do...