Recent content by spleena27

Hi, I found your site this year, switched to the BBB method, and indeed did have a trouble free pool this year. We did not have a single day where the pool was unusable, or even a little iffy. I have half a bucket of chlorine tabs leftover, which amounts to about $30 or $40 wasted, but I do not...

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po And by the way some towns also require you to install a ground wire around the entire pool, so that in case the GFCI fails, or something else goes SHTF, people in the water will not be electrocuted.

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po Yes, the outlet. According to commonly accepted building codes, the outlet has to be a GFCI outlet, and it has to be at least 5 feet from the edge of the pool (or possibly 6 feet I don't recall). But the code really wants it to be at...

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po Even though this is off topic for this thread, Liz, be careful about how you install your electrical for your filter. That is the tricky one. Where I am, the electrical had to be at least 5 feet from the pool (or maybe 6 now), and I...

If it the cleaner uses 1 1/4 flex tube, I have had okay results using a plastic hose barb fitting that I got at home depot. (Gray plastic 1 1/4 x 1 /14, barb x barb. Got it in the area where they sell the PVC pipe fittings. It doesn't slip as far into the blue skimmer port as I would like, and...

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po erm again, we started with the 10-foot intex round pool, which we got at Target midsummer for $75. We used it for August and into September, But then we discovered that we had put it in illegally close to the house per our local...

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po erm, I meant $500 to $600 a season, not $5000!

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po Liz, We love the 10x20. We have a 6 year old daughter who loves it, and we regularly have 3 or 4 kids (ages 7 to 13) from the neighborhood coming over to swim also. We started with the 15 foot round pool, which was great for coming...

Re: What the best ladder to use with an Intex Ultra frame Po Hi, I have a similar Intex pool (rectangular, 10 x 20, 52" height). We used the original ladder last year, but I hated it. I just bought this type of ladder: http://www.nationaldiscountpoolsupplies ... polab.html . I got it on...