Recent content by Woodstock1234

Day 2 of my SLAM cause I decided to open in July :laughblue:

I used a tarp, the Intex cloth that came with the pool and an off brand gorilla pad.

I guess I am weighing the need to have to pump the cover all the time vs getting stuff/debris in the pool . I'm leaning towards putting some holes in the cover. Seems like the lesser of the evils right now.

Hello all! Well, I finally opened my pool yesterday. Haha, yes, a bit late but surprisingly all is well and it's not a swamp. I bought a solar blanket this year that lays on top of the pool, not on the water. Then you stake the sides of the blanket to the ground with ropes. I have never used...

Hi there, can you post a picture of your pool and complete your signature line with your pool information? I think this has been asked before regarding an Intex and a Bestway. Most of these vinyl pools are very similar.

This is what my pool looked like when I opened. It took 7 days of vaccuuming and keeping the chlorine up for it to clear. I manually vacuumed so it didn't go back into my filter. You can clean stairs with bleach.

I think it's dead algae that is too small for the filter to get completely. This year is my first battle with algae since my cover blew off and I opened late. Mine gets less and less every day that I vacuum and filter, but it's a PITA. I think this slime bag thing is gonna work for the...

I Never heard of this slime bag. I'm totally gonna try it.

I don't even know what the article says but there is no set amount of time that you have to run the pump. For the past 2 years I have run mine for one to two hours a day but I know other people run it a lot more. I manually skim debris cause I find it therapeutic so that helps. If the water...

I saw these online too, but wasn't sure if they were any good. Thank you!

Yes, basically last time, I added the amount for the days I was gone and covered it. It was fine when I got back, but figured I would try the puck. This year, I'm just more on edge cause I opened to a green pool and today is day 5 of the slam. It's almost clear and don't want to go back.

Well I gave up on this tablet idea. I don't want any extras in the pool, so I returned them. Just gonna do what I did last year, which was add a bunch of liquid chlorine and hope for the best. No issues last time, but I thought I just got lucky.

:cry: I thought these ones didn't, but it says xtra-blue. The HTH ones had a bunch of other Crud in it too. Any suggestions for ones that are better? I only used liquid chlorine before.

They are definitely 3 inch and the pail wasn't sealed. I think someone took some out. On the one hand, I should return it. On the other hand, I'm scared I won't get a replacement. These were really hard to find on the first place. I probably don't need more than 5, but it kind of pisses me...

I have never bought tablets before, but I need some while I'm on vacation. I bought a 5 pound pail of Clorox tablets and there were five 3 inch tablets in there. I don't have a scale or I would weigh it, but I thought there would be more? Anyone know generally how many I should get in 5 pounds?