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2 for $16 here http://www.amazon.com/Good-Times-GT-100 ... ool+lights

I guess i forgot the link http://www.pooltoysource.com/swimming-p ... ounge1.cfm

I ran across these and they seem a lot like the old lounge chair on 2 styrofoam arms type that used to last forever. Any thoughts?

My wife is making our annual trip today to buy new floats and toys for the pool. We usually end up dropping a few hundred on these over each summer, and I would like to get away from that and buy some durable stuff that will last more than a season. I am particularly looking for some good...

We have decided to look into getting a retractable awning for our lower deck area this year and have just started the process of looking into them. I decided this would be a good place to start looking for information since you have all been so helpful in the past. We are looking at a 16'x10'...

FC 12 CC 0 TC 12 pH 7.2 TA 50 CYA 40 All in all I am pretty satisfied with the winterizing last year. I had a lot of trouble during opening last year, but this year I think I started early enough to (hopefully) keep it under control. The water was clear when the cover came off but went...

I too have found 8.25% bleach in the store today. Walmart great value brand of all things. Anyone have any info on why the sudden increase in yield? It reeks of bad information to me, but I am skeptical of most good news.

It is a tension wire type cover. Is there another kind for above ground pools? It is also solid, not mesh, and I would call this more than "some algae."

I wonder what I am doing wrong. My pool looks like a green swamp when I open it, and it is filled with frog eggs. It is covered all winter long but this has happened both years. I created a thread for you. Please don't threadjack. It is hard to help when we have to sort out who has what...

I had the pool store open the pool this year (I know now, but didn't then) just so I wouldn't have to mess with the cover, and because this was our first open, and I wasn't 100% sure about how to attach all the hoses. Well, that is pretty much all they did. They didn't even add water to it...

I just found this and it sounds like a good decent price for 10% @ $3.05 per gallon. Is that too high? I saw a coupon code for free shipping over $75. http://www.acehardwaresuperstore.com/44 ... 65095.html

Ahhhhhhh. We are finally back to sparkly. I had forgotten how nice it was.

Add some DE to your filter by following the instructions at pool school. I had the exact same issue you describe and that cleared mine up in 2 days. Be sure to check the pressure as often as possible though. Mine went way high after a few hours and needed a backwash.

I ran my filter 24 hours a day all summer and still ended up with pollen. The skimmer sock helped. but it was the DE that finally cleared it up. Also, your pool is not sparkly. Sorry to break that to you. I went through the same stages when trying to see some improvement from day to day...

Yep. I fought it as if it were algae for 2 weeks and was about ready to throw in the towel. Then I read that some people who thought they had algae really had pollen. I started by trying a skimmer sock. My pool had been downright murky for a week or more with very little visibility. It took...