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I cant believe I am also in the same boat. We should be getting daily deluges of rain. We have probably gotten less than an inch over the last 30 days. Thank goodness, I have a well and can water with impunity with no cost.
 
HermanTX said:
See the new pool rail. It is made by Saftron. I used the deck mounts rather than inserting it into the concrete. Looks great and is sturdy.
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That looks really good for a surface mount. I'm hoping I get to a place where I need to redo my decking before I need to add a rail, so that I can bond it properly. If not I would consider something like this.

--Jeff
 
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Cleaned the filter. Recent monsoon rains after only 1 day of rain in the last 80 washed lots of fine dirt from all surfaces into the pool, along with lots of leaves. Hoping that I won’t have to clean it again until opening next spring, as the cover will go on in the next 30 days or so. I also cleaned up the chiller and covered it. Days are shorter, temps are a bit cooler, although still in the 90s. I suspect another spell of 100s might be left in the season, but not enough to warrant continued use of the chiller. Water temp is currently 80°. Got a pork shoulder on the smoker today and will enjoy a day at the pool.

Summer is winding down.
 
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Got my replacement CYA view tube (and a new graduated cylinder for chlorine - I bought one of the embossed ones since the labelling rubbed off of my old "chlorine only" one!) and it arrived yesterday. I forgot how fast the TFTestKits shipping is!

Unfortunately, I overshot the CYA with the tabs I used on vacation. Looking like my CYA is sitting around 60. I ran the test a few times over and compared it to the 50ppm standard solution, and it's definitely disappearing right at the 60 mark. This wouldn't have been a problem 2 months ago when the nonstop 100+ degree days and brutal sun was eating my CYA up like nobody's business. I'm going to try and just run elevated FC for now because we're still under water restrictions despite the heavy rainfall lately, so partially draining isn't on the table for now.
 
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dfwnoob said:
Got my replacement CYA view tube (and a new graduated cylinder for chlorine - I bought one of the embossed ones since the labelling rubbed off of my old "chlorine only" one!) and it arrived yesterday. I forgot how fast the TFTestKits shipping is!

Unfortunately, I overshot the CYA with the tabs I used on vacation. Looking like my CYA is sitting around 60. I ran the test a few times over and compared it to the 50ppm standard solution, and it's definitely disappearing right at the 60 mark. This wouldn't have been a problem 2 months ago when the nonstop 100+ degree days and brutal sun was eating my CYA up like nobody's business. I'm going to try and just run elevated FC for now because we're still under water restrictions despite the heavy rainfall lately, so partially draining isn't on the table for now.
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60 isn’t terrible for dfw- just chlorinate accordingly. Hopefully u had fun on your vacation 🤩
 
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Yesterday afternoon I noticed that an inch of water had evaporated, so I tossed the hose in and set a timer for 30 minutes. 25 minutes later, kid called and said that practice had ended early, so I left to pick her up.

Here's a fun fact I just learned: When they expire, lots of timers make their little sound forever, or until you stop them. But some timers only make a sound for a few minutes, then stop all by themselves.

So this morning after breakfast, I walked outside with my coffee and discovered that I'd topped up my 8000 gallon pool with 4300 gallons of water. In a severe drought. At $0.05/gallon. Sigh.

Yesterday to today:
FC: 9 -> 5
pH: 7.8 -> 8.2
TA: 60 -> 120
CH: 475 -> 275
CYA: 50 -> 20

Hey, look what I got at Home Depot while I was buying CYA: Orbit Mechanical Water Timer 56908 - The Home Depot

I've been playing with it this evening. Works great, and it only cost me as much as 340 gallons of water.
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DrewLG said:
Yesterday afternoon I noticed that an inch of water had evaporated, so I tossed the hose in and set a timer for 30 minutes. 25 minutes later, kid called and said that practice had ended early, so I left to pick her up.

Here's a fun fact I just learned: When they expire, lots of timers make their little sound forever, or until you stop them. But some timers only make a sound for a few minutes, then stop all by themselves.

So this morning after breakfast, I walked outside with my coffee and discovered that I'd topped up my 8000 gallon pool with 4300 gallons of water. In a severe drought. At $0.05/gallon. Sigh.

Yesterday to today:
FC: 9 -> 5
pH: 7.8 -> 8.2
TA: 60 -> 120
CH: 475 -> 275
CYA: 50 -> 20

Hey, look what I got at Home Depot while I was buying CYA: Orbit Mechanical Water Timer 56908 - The Home Depot

I've been playing with it this evening. Works great, and it only cost me as much as 340 gallons of water.
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Aww man! Been there, done that!
now I set the oven alarm 🚨 which may or may not help as my entire family ignores it & apparently doesn’t care if the house burns down 🤣 may have to get me one of them fancy timers from the Home Depot!
 
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DrewLG said:
Here's a fun fact I just learned: When they expire, lots of timers make their little sound forever, or until you stop them. But some timers only make a sound for a few minutes, then stop all by themselves.
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I did the same yesterday with the timer, so *2* of us were yesterday years old........

I was soaking wet / sweatty moving dirt in the backyard and took my phone out and left it on the patio table. When a timer went off a while later I was across the yard and let it go. Then only a couple minutes in, it stopped.
 

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I’ve spent the last 2 days getting cedar elm seeds and leaves out of my pool. The seeds are like coarse sand and recent heavy rains have knocked them all down at once - literally millions of them. I’ve probably removed 25+ pounds of them, some by using the leaf net and the rest with the Polaris and nets in the skimmer baskets. I don’t have a vacuum to waste option. If I had vacuum to waste, I’d use a floc and get them all out at once. When I brush, it stirs them up and I have to wait 24 hours for them to settle to the bottom again.

Love our trees but always dread this time of year. This year is the worst I’ve seen, probably due to the drought followed by heavy rain.
 
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Mdragger88 said:
Aww man! Been there, done that!
now I set the oven alarm 🚨 which may or may not help as my entire family ignores it & apparently doesn’t care if the house burns down 🤣 may have to get me one of them fancy timers from the Home Depot!
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I took the advice of a TFP'er and had a spigot added to my sprinkler system right next to the pool when we built the pool last year and the sprinkler guys came back to fix the zones in the yard. When I needed water once this summer, I turned on that spigot zone for half and hour put the hose in and worry free filling.
 
Well, I finally did it!!! Now a full fledge saltwater pool. Installed the Jandy AquaPure 1400 along with a FLOVIS meter into the plumbing. Hooked up the electrical (to load side of Filter/Pump relay) in the AquaLink control center. Ran a RS-485 wire for remote control. Set the SWCG for 35% running 21 hrs at 1550rpm. The flowmeter showing right at 30gpm flowrate. The Jandy sensor reads 3200ppm salt whereas my salt drop test read 3000ppm. I'll monitor for several days and determine if any tweaks needed to % output. Appreciate the help along the way.
 
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<---here is before Hurricane Ian. And below is after Ian. Tore the roof of the Tiki hut apart and blew out one side of the pool screen enclosure, bent the other side. Wished I hadn't had it rescreened last year as then the screens might have given way instead of the cage structure. With no power for two weeks and being too far away to get to the house I'm battling a green monster but finally getting some light at the end of the tunnel. It eats a lot of bleach. We were going to try and ride it out when our area was forecast for 4-5 feet swells but on that last day the course changed and we were supposed to be in the 8-12 foot area. 8-12 would put water in the house so we ran north !! Just glad to be alive and that I was lucky enough that water didn't come up high enough to enter the house. Apparently it ended up hitting a bit south of us with the worst of it. Hurricanes, the price you pay for living in paradise ?

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Kiss4aFrog said:
<---here is before Hurricane Ian. And below is after Ian. Tore the roof of the Tiki hut apart and blew out one side of the pool screen enclosure, bent the other side. Wished I hadn't had it rescreened last year as then the screens might have given way instead of the cage structure. With no power for two weeks and being too far away to get to the house I'm battling a green monster but finally getting some light at the end of the tunnel. It eats a lot of bleach. We were going to try and ride it out when our area was forecast for 4-5 feet swells but on that last day the course changed and we were supposed to be in the 8-12 foot area. 8-12 would put water in the house so we ran north !! Just glad to be alive and that I was lucky enough that water didn't come up high enough to enter the house. Apparently it ended up hitting a bit south of us with the worst of it. Hurricanes, the price you pay for living in paradise ?

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Aww man 😩 glad y’all are ok & that you have a house to come back to even though clean up is definitely no party 🧹
You’ll have it back to paradise in no time!
 
Dirk said:
Exchanging water to lower CH. While it's down I'm scrubbing edge tile. Ah... the joys of pool ownership!
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I'm kicking myself for ever adding CH. Pool almost a year old now. I brought the CH up to the minimum recommended amount. Now it's up to 625 and still rising. I don't really get it. My fill water is only 125 and I have an autocover so I barely add water. Only thing I can figure is that it's coming from the pebble itself. I read as much as I could and nothing said be careful with the CH because the pebble will add it on it's own. Not sure if this is normal or not. I do struggle with PH. Every week it goes above 8 and once a week I add about a half gallon to gallon of acid to bring it back down, all other levels are always optimal. Having to think about exchanging water now really sucks. I'm hoping to do it with rain water.....if it ever actually rains here.
 
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