Recent content by Tmartin

once you think you have it level think again. I thought i had every thing good. and still ended up with one side a little higher than the other. take as much time as you need as this is the most important step. I would get a machine as suggested. I was digging in clay and will never do another...

I'm using the same 2x20 sun grabber panels and i noticed you have both ends plumbed together. My panels have some kind of divider in one of the collectors on each panel and the instructions say to just plumb the ends with those dividers together and then cap the ends with out the dividers in...

its a 25ga swirl bottom from...

i got up on the roof today and measured every thing. I can fit three of the panels on the south side of the roof but not 4 due to how the screened in porch joins the house. Would i be able to plumb the fourth panel onto the northside of the roof? i know its not the perfect set up but their is...

do you have to plumb it to the south side? or is your pump/filter already on that side? I think after looking again today ill just build the one big rack for all four panels. Now I'm wishing we had got 8' or 12' panels but oh well

Ok i got some pictures so lets see if i can get them to work. I kind of decided today the roof is out do to it not really being long enough. I looked at the panels today and they are fafco 2x20' panels. they measure about 27.5" tall on the collectors. so if I make one rack it will be about...

I just put up a 30' x54" round steel wall pool at my girlfriends parents house. the old pool wall buckled and basicly fell down over the winter due to a tear andthe old pool being put on unleveled ground and leveling the ground with roughly a 9" sand base for half the pool. so over the past few...