Recent content by philthy

Yeah, those stainless turnbuckles are stupid expensive. I bought some for my ski boat. They are pretty, but for what they cost, they should be.

Sorry for the long delay. It's still holding up fine. I actually bought another one to cover the pool completely, but won't mount it until sometime this winter. Too cold out and all, it's getting into the low 70s and that's just too chilly to be outside. :) Anyway, I guess the only thing I...

I'm thinking about ordering a leaf canister and wondering if it's worth it. My cleanerbot 3000 (a Kreepy Krawly Sand Shark) picks up a few long stringy palm tree frond parts, these little palm tree parts that blow down like tiny spinning helicopters in the monsoons and millions? billions...

Also in the Phoenix area and I have a 16x16 square shade sail over about half of my pool. One corner hooks directly to the fascia board using a 5/16ths eye lag bolt and a D-ring. Corner two uses the same eye lag bolt but into a wall as that part of the house is two stories and about 4 feet...

The pump runs like a man getting chased by a bear and doesn't leak a drop, which is sort of the opposite of a man getting chased by a bear. I do have a small leak on the filter connections and a fair amount of calcium build up, but thats easily enough dealt with. Spent a lot of time this weekend...

Time to get the pool ready for the summer again. The small humans in my house keep asking questions. "When can we swim? How come we can't swim? Are you gonna let us go swimming?" Well, when are they gonna let me take a nap? A few years ago wife and I bought out first house with a pool. We...

Thanks for the welcomes. Appreciate it. This weekend I'll be rebuilding my pump with the proper parts (which as it turns out were not the first batch of parts listed on Amazon) and then go into deep clean mode. This summer, once it gets nice and hot here in Phoenix, I think I'm going to try to...

Good afternoon. I've been reading TFP for a long time and joined almost a year ago, but never got around to posting. I guess it's time. :) About 6 years ago I bought a house in Phoenix with a pool and knew nothing. Now things are lots better, I know next to nothing. It's a 12.5k gallon...