Recent content by superdave5599

Pulled the cover on Saturday. The edge of the cover over the shallow end fell in during a blizzard in January, and then the pool quickly froze after, so it stayed that way for like a month and a half. Edge came loose on the deep end a couple weeks before pulling it. So unfortunately, a...

Since water is expensive for you, I think my inclination would be to scoop as much gunk out off the cover as you can and go ahead and use it. I say this as I pulled the cover off my pool this weekend and attempted to clean a bunch of rain water and dirt that had blown on the cover from fairly...

Goal is to stop/slow it from progressing by stopping water from continually contacting the metal frame, as well as allowing iron to continue to dissolve into the water. (I had to remove iron stains at the end of last season.) The whole skimmer is a bit ratty, so I don't mind the idea of...

Realized a source of the iron I had in my water last year! Seems like something maybe wasn't sealed properly when the liner was replaced a few years ago (prior to me owning the house). I'm guessing that supposedly, I could just remove the screws surrounding the skimmer frame. However, I'm...

Seems the preference around here is to start a new thread rather than bump old ones. Our furnace is ancient and acting wonky, so I think we're putting HVAC at our house on the short list. I have told my wife previously that whenever we replaced it, I wanted to look into this heat recovery unit...

Ha, that is exactly what gave me the idea to exchange some of the remaining water after I dump to winter level.

Thanks for confirming what I thought. We'll see what I decide, but I may even consider exchanging a little bit more of the water that is left, after dumping what I can.

My closing plan involves doing the Ascorbic Acid treatment, then as soon as the iron staining has lifted, dump the water to winter level, theoretically taking like half the iron with it and hopefully diluting it enough in the spring, that I won't have to maintain sequestrant dosages in the...

Mostly in case anyone is searching for ways to lower chlorine and comes across this thread (I agree, OP doesn't need to worry about it): Hydrogen peroxide does it quite well! Much better than peeing in the pool to do it. Just yesterday I was looking for info on lowering chlorine, as I hadn't...

Cool cool. I thought I'd read last year that chlorine will oxidize the PQ (and therefore render it useless), so for winter it is advisable to go either/or.

I had some vitamin C tablets, so I crushed them up, strapped to the brush, and was surprised at how readily it took up the staining. And pleasantly surprised that the cleaned liner didn't look as faded as I had thought! I think I'm going to proceed as described above, unless someone can tell me...