Recent content by UGottaBKidding

My Wife will kill me if I make the skimmer suck up the sparkles. She'll probably want to feed them! Interesting that I read here about aerating to raise pH and mentioned to my wife that we might have to get some kind of "fountain", to which she said she was already going to have a fountain...

Hence the heater. Don't want to waste that heat directly early or late in the season straight out to the 55 degree night. From what I've seen, 2" foam with some kind of metal on each side (steel; aluminum?); R10. Which isn't horrible considering most home walls are R19. Water retains heat...

Yes, yes I am. Going to be interesting to see if the Wife agrees with my "wants" versus her "needs". And thanks for the Welcome!

That's kind of what I've gathered from the world wide web and Google as far as the big 3. I'm certainly in favor of over-sizing, but at some point how big is too big? Pool isn't huge. If I'm calculating right, total volume is about 8600 gal. How fast/often is optimal turnover? Over-sized...

I will get him to join, but timing is everything and he likely won't "believe" me until I show him. How would I know after all? I don't have a pool! It's definitely in his future, he just doesn't know it yet. Ha! Already did. Photos are good, but live and in-person is so much better. Just...

Thanks. Already started to peruse all over. Really thought I already knew at least something... only to find I really know absolutely nothing!

Hello all. Buying house in NW Chicago burbs. BH (Best Half) wants a heated pool for next summer, so targeting install spring 2025. Sponsored pool at Son's place in Florida. No hands on time for me, but he sure seems to do a lot of work to maintain with plenty of relatively long trips to the...