What did you do to your pool today?

PoolStored said:

MISTY!!!! How are you?
No, I'll try it, but it sounds like bearings. Known problem on the RJ. For the $10 for the fan, cheap insurance.

Circupool SWG - Further Reading

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I’ve just been busy and come back to a million notifications hope your new fan fixes it right up.

Tried out my new Aiper Surfer S2 skimmer while the wife was enjoying a swim.

It was a busy weekend of trying to clear the pool after opening Friday. And drinking the pool water finally caught up to one of my idiot dogs so I was dealing with a sick dog on top of pool duties. But we've finally turned a corner - dog is feeling better and pool is looking much better.

I just hung a sock of CYA and dropped in the robot.

oledan said:

Tried out my new Aiper Surfer S2 skimmer while the wife was enjoying a swim.
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Corn or soy?

Mdragger88 said:

Have you tried cleaning the fan with compressed air?

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Something I wish I'd known earlier, before I broke a few fans in awkward places (like inside laptop computers): Fan bearings are designed for a particular range of speeds, and they can fail if they're run above that range.

So if you clean fans with compressed air, turn off the fan and hold the fan blades still while you do it. As satisfying as it is to hear that "Whee!" as you spin a fan way up, it will last a lot longer if you don't do that.

PoolStored said:

Had one time last year the fan on the RJ screamed at me for a minute. A quick, light fist to the box stopped it. Screaming is back, fist did not stop it...I ordered replacement fan.

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Fan replacement done. Absolutely silent. Old fan clean as a whistle...bearings went bad.

A cloudy, rainy weekend didn't stop me from enjoying some seat time by the pool/fire pit!

Weather wasn’t cooperative enough to finish. Hopefully will be able to finish after work and get it opened!

Finished and pool is filling

I would want my pipes deeper than that, just sayin'.

It's supposed to be hot this coming weekend, so I cranked up the solar heater today. And I've got a bunch of garden projects to do this week. Who knows, I might just have to go swimming in a couple days!!

Pool filled, new pump running, and chems are in shape. Closing at SLAM did the trick.

FC 6.5
pH 7.2
TA 60

Will check salt and CYA tomorrow. Only problems are slow drips on the threaded pieces at the return and MPV. So much for the Oatey Great White joint compound. I’ll have to revisit them.

I had a need for an eighth drip circuit, which I had to run behind the make-shift paver pad I installed for my pool junk boxes, way back when. This inspired me to pull up all the pavers and rebuild that pad, as it was never done well, and was never flat and level, and that caused the lids of the boxes to seat crookedly, which has always bugged me. I installed a frame; left, back and right; and then some sand and leveled it as best I could, then put the pavers back and cut some new ones to fill in some new gaps. It came out OK.



Note the two scraps in the middle. Normally I wouldn't do something like that, but the two scraps were leftovers from the other cuts, and didn't require even a shave. They just dropped right in. Considering I'll never see them again, it wasn't worth the effort and waste of cutting another whole paver just to get rid of that seam.

PRO TIP: This obviously isn't "patio quality" work, but when you need that, the trick is, before showing the end result to anyone, cover it with furniture! Ta, da:



All flat and level, and the lids now close perfectly! (I'll power-wash the whole pad in a few weeks.)

I panicked in the middle of the job, realizing that the new pad must be somehow smaller than the original, so I measured the boxes and was 4" short. Ugh, now what?! I really hate when stuff like that happens, but... I measured wrong! And as you can see, I couldn't have ended up with a better fit. I did the whole job with scraps of boards and pavers I had leftover from other jobs. Yes, I'm a pack-rat, but it often pays off. For those that might be worried, I am not legally a hoarder, because I have less than 20 magazines in my entire house, and they aren't in a stack!

So not only did I use up some old junk laying around, I used up nearly all of each piece of junk! This is what was leftover from the leftovers. Something comforting about that!



It was tough, but yes, I threw these scraps in the garbage. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Tomorrow I'll run the rest of the new drip line...