Recent content by sacredcow

You can get phosphate test strips on Amazon. The AquaChek ones made by HACH are pretty accurate. Mine were wicked high when I moved into my house and I eventually treated to remove them, but it's debatable at best whether it was necessary.

New fence completed (thanks, Beryl). Been fighting to keep the sawdust and dirt at bay via skimmer socks and sand/silt bags on the Polaris. Probably going to chlorinate to the higher end of normal for a few days just in case. On to the next repair…

As I heard from another neighbor, a crew came and replastered it today and it's now being filled. All well and good, except I'd bet good money they're going to fill it and then just let it turn into a swamp again. But maybe they have a tentative offer pending the pool not being a swamp?

You can absolutely install a pump- If you search on the forum, you can find some pretty ingenious setups that people have installed. If you keyword "stenner," you'll get plenty of results. But as others have pointed out, it isn't necessarily easy or inexpensive. That said, if you get everything...

They did that earlier this summer when it went on the market. The plaster was massively stained but they cleaned it and repaired the equipment just as the rest of the house was completed. Then they let it return to a swamp again (they’re blaming the hurricane, but it was green well prior to...

That was always my understanding. Not surprised a flipper is going cheap- he overpaid for the house given its condition and his asking price is already too high. Just verifying my thoughts as I approach my own replaster.

The pool next door to me is being flipped with the house. I figured for years that it was in terrible shape, but you couldn’t see as the water was black. A crew spent about half a day over there so after they left I snuck over to see what was happening. My own pool is probably heading for a...

Hey- Sorry, I just saw this. I haven't been online much lately. It's still holding up quite well, actually. I haven't been as diligent as I wanted to be about resealing it annually but considering that I'm definitely not displeased with the results. I have one area where there are some light...

Agreed that it can be confusing at first. But no- there really is no formula and every pool is different. Heck, even your own pool will be different day to day, month to month, etc... Personally, what I try to do is find the approximate spot where it holds nearish to the middle of the range that...

You could always tell people (and yourself) that it's a safety feature to identify where the slope to the deep end starts and you paid extra for it because you're fancy. LOL Much like how software developers respond to me when I identify an obvious glitch, "Oh, no. The crashing you are...