After watching this video by Veritasium
For some home owners that never uses their pool and has to continue to dump hundreds to thousands of dollars of chems each year. Why is this not the one and only solution compared to the rest.
If you fall into this category...
1. Never use your pool
2. Getting sick and tired of throwing money at an unused pool.
3. No real solution to closing a pool other than hiring a cement company and filling it in or building a deck.
4. Refilling pool constantly due to evaporation >>> $$$$
According to the video there are a number of positives in using this approach
1. The balls block the sun completely which means there is less evaporation
2. As well as the LA City Rep claimed they use very little chlorine to maintain the body of water if any at all. @8:18. Maybe that's simply PR on his part, I simply don't know.
3. The balls allow the water to stay cooler, which means the water doesn't increase in temp. And I'm really assuming the biggest reason for algae outbreaks are due to water temps getting above 75 to 80 degrees. I personally never get outbreaks in the winter time when the water is ice cold, 2 winters ago, I didn't put any chorine in the pool for almost 6 months and was fine.
4. It takes these things 10 years to degrade, when solar covers last 2-3 years max.
5. Food grade plastic (whatever that means heh), not that it matters for a pool.
Negs: They might fly away due to wind, they look ugly, removing them is probably a *****, high up front cost.
I know for a fact the first thing i'm going to hear is someone saying that it's going to take forever to remove those balls if you want to use the pool one day. My response to that is, I can't imagine it takes me more than 30 mins and 5 minutes max to put them all back in.
I made a post last month, What are the pros and cons of a pool cover?
Which defeated me into thinking a solar cover wasn't a solution at all in an attempt to reduce chemical spending to a noticeable degree.
I know I'm in a minority around here when discussing this kinda topic because we don't use our pool. But I'm like 90% sure I'm going to try this. I already found 3 listings on Alibaba to purchase enough balls for my pool, I need to do some math first.
One of my aunts recently discussed removing her pool as well since her kids are gone and I told her it's a mistake in California to remove a pool. You never know if California will go crazy and stop issue pool building permits. I Also explained to her you can't simple remove the water and expect the pool to be fine after x number of months/years/decades. The entire pool will have to be redone.
I was wondering if anyone else has tried this? Thoughts?
For some home owners that never uses their pool and has to continue to dump hundreds to thousands of dollars of chems each year. Why is this not the one and only solution compared to the rest.
If you fall into this category...
1. Never use your pool
2. Getting sick and tired of throwing money at an unused pool.
3. No real solution to closing a pool other than hiring a cement company and filling it in or building a deck.
4. Refilling pool constantly due to evaporation >>> $$$$
According to the video there are a number of positives in using this approach
1. The balls block the sun completely which means there is less evaporation
2. As well as the LA City Rep claimed they use very little chlorine to maintain the body of water if any at all. @8:18. Maybe that's simply PR on his part, I simply don't know.
3. The balls allow the water to stay cooler, which means the water doesn't increase in temp. And I'm really assuming the biggest reason for algae outbreaks are due to water temps getting above 75 to 80 degrees. I personally never get outbreaks in the winter time when the water is ice cold, 2 winters ago, I didn't put any chorine in the pool for almost 6 months and was fine.
4. It takes these things 10 years to degrade, when solar covers last 2-3 years max.
5. Food grade plastic (whatever that means heh), not that it matters for a pool.
Negs: They might fly away due to wind, they look ugly, removing them is probably a *****, high up front cost.
I know for a fact the first thing i'm going to hear is someone saying that it's going to take forever to remove those balls if you want to use the pool one day. My response to that is, I can't imagine it takes me more than 30 mins and 5 minutes max to put them all back in.
I made a post last month, What are the pros and cons of a pool cover?
Which defeated me into thinking a solar cover wasn't a solution at all in an attempt to reduce chemical spending to a noticeable degree.
I know I'm in a minority around here when discussing this kinda topic because we don't use our pool. But I'm like 90% sure I'm going to try this. I already found 3 listings on Alibaba to purchase enough balls for my pool, I need to do some math first.
One of my aunts recently discussed removing her pool as well since her kids are gone and I told her it's a mistake in California to remove a pool. You never know if California will go crazy and stop issue pool building permits. I Also explained to her you can't simple remove the water and expect the pool to be fine after x number of months/years/decades. The entire pool will have to be redone.
I was wondering if anyone else has tried this? Thoughts?
