Recent content by smoses

Opened today, not bad! First time doing by myself.

I have the exact same situation you have. Auto cover with tiled shorter wall to well. I’d measure the water line upon closing the pool for the night. When you open it next, check the mark. Possibly even use a yard stick, measuring depth of water at steps at closing / opening the cover...

I had to SLAM my pool a few weeks ago, and bought gallons and gallons of bleach. Chatted with my neighbors who are FBI (actually very high up the chain FBI, I’m in the DC area) about my use of bleach and laughed about them seeing my on a watch list. No watch list for bleach, at least at the...

I’ll redo my CYA test tomorrow but it was at 30, so didn’t think it was ammonia. I finally got it to hold with stronger/fresher bleach and assumed that was the reason it took so much.

I let the pool go 2 weeks unchecked, I know I know. I finally had time to open the cover (it’s covered while not in use, which contributed to it being neglected for so long) Saturday evening and it was slightly green but mostly cloudy. I immediately went out and bought 7 gallons of the...

My pool is white plaster and it’s blue.

Wow that’s a pretty pool! Have fun!

We have a bat house on our house and bats actually live in it. We find them harmless, sure they swoop pretty low sometimes but we’ve never been hit by one. Fascinating to watch them fly around and come and go into their house.

I’m going to weigh in on my experiences this past fall & spring. Mine pool is newly built just finished in September. We got an auto cover and a dolphin premier robot. Between those I hardly spend any time cleaning. The cover keeps all the leaves, helicopters, pollen, etc from going in the...

Opened this beauty on Monday to slightly green, slightly cloudy water. Did a SLAM because of the green & the CC was 1. Water cleared up & passed overnight test in 2 days. Now I’m getting in, the water’s 85. Thank you TFP, because of this site I knew exactly what to do.

I have nothing to offer except a Bravo on the deer extraction. Cant wait to see pics of it clean.

It did, eventually. It’s in a really terrible spot and I felt like it was turning forever.

It’s fixed! I got my builder on the phone and told them what happened. They admitted their guy must not have tightened it when they opened the pool. Thanks for the help!