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Can you show us your backyard? Mine is 100’ wide and 50’ deep from the house, with slope from back to front. I sat out there for an entire summer with stakes and twine marking out prospective locations, and it ends up with my patio being two tiers, the shallow end lower than the pool deck, and I...

I would get an adapter to get it to 1.25” and connect a check valve and sump pump hose. I went the extra mile and connect my sump pump hose to a PVC pipe that runs a ways underground then eventually hits a firehose to the street that I roll up. Check Valve...

This company Stormaster on Amazon makes an inexpensive cover cover that I got for the winter, but I’m going to make much more use of it year round. The shallow end of my new cover last year (which is the part that’s on the outside of the reel and in the sun when reeled up) was destroyed by year...

Ha somehow I saw the first three and not the fourth, and assumed it was a tarp cover. Carry on!

I think your cover has a leak. Where exactly do you put the cover pump during the winter? I also lose water before opening and I know it’s my solid cover’s small hole and where I put the cover pump. When I opened last week I dropped the pump to the second step and pumped a lot of water from...

Good call, somehow the “Don’t stop” box got unchecked on my Pool circuit (and I’m embarrassed)

Wow, I was struggling with this when I opened last week. I didn’t feel like turning schedules on yet and just turned the Pool circuit on and couldn’t figure out why it kept turning off. Turning on my schedule took care of it. Do you know if the pump firmware is updatable?

Here in NY, with the pool open 5ish months out of the year, pump running 24/7 at 24 GPM also with a CCP-420, I clean the filter once a year, right before closing, and I’ve never seen my filter pressure even a single PSI above clean on high speed. I use hairnets in the skimmer; I’m sure that...

I had to have a concrete deck jackhammered and redone a year after new construction due to the builder’s error. You learn a lot about the character of the builder based on how they handle when things go wrong. You’ll be happy you have your deck how you want it when all is said and done, and...

Andy’s got the dream setup!

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Upstate NY. A week ago today there was still some snow on the cover. Four days from today we’ll have three straight days in the 80s and the official start of summer! Opened up today to beautiful, crystal clear, 42 degree, TFP water!

I can emphasize! I finally finished phase 1B of the patio last fall and dug so much extra trenching under it for waste, water and gas, only to lay pipes, run them to an end point and cap them off. Whenever/if ever phase 2 starts, it will have kitchen and bathroom. Years!!

+1 for running 24/7. As Jim always says, run the pump for a purpose. I found my purpose, and that was to not have 16 hours a day where chlorine wasn’t being produced, where water wasn’t flowing through a high chlorine area in the salt cell. I had followed TFP methods since the first day I...

You got it made with the drains right there! If your setup is like mine, I think you could probably shut off all the valves, open the spigot and get a good chunk of the water out, but you still may have enough junk in the housing that you’d want that water flowing through the drain at the...

With a valve and some fittings you can control where the water goes. You could plumb in an adapter after the valve from whatever your pipe is, say 2”, to hose thread and screw on a garden hose when you want to drain it from your pad to some distant place. I even saw some posts last night where...

I’m not sure if it would work with your full plumbing but if I were cutting into mine I’d 100% be cutting where you indicated and also installing a T with a valve for draining while I had it all open.

I live a little north of you and have a CCP-420 in what appears to be a smaller pool than yours. Pool builder was like “you should do sand!” I was like “What is backwash and why would I do that every week?” The 420 is plenty big for me. My pressure never changes and I clean it only once per...

Can you park the pump on a step so the water goes down only to that level? Might not suck anymore out of the pool this way and if you are out there when it stops sucking you might be able to roll it off without dumping gunk into the pool. Roll the cover back starting at the opposite end from the...

I think the best part about owning a pool is being in it, and having it comfortable when you’re in it is really a plus. The solar cover helps with this so it’s a no brainer to me. I am convinced my solar cover is the reason why I needed to SLAM on May 22 last year and May 21 this year despite...

I live in NY and the thing I dislike most about my pool is it’s in my backyard that faces south and there’s nowhere to hide from the sun. I can’t imagine my same setup in TX, so I would echo the “more shade” sentiment. Notwithstanding, your design is awesome- please post pics of before, during...

I had a similar snafu with our deck when poured. I had the builder come out and they said they’d make it right. They tried a patch, then they tried to stain it. It behooved both of us to try because I didn’t want to have more construction. But it didn’t work, and they agreed that they needed to...

Knowing nothing about pools when we had ours built while also being worried about everything, I bought this combo and use it every time I add water: Pentair Pentek 150469 Big Blue Filter Housing, 3/4" NPT #10 Whole House Heavy Duty Water Filter Housing with High-Flow Polypropylene (HFPP) Cap...

I’m here to admit I’m an idiot and I’ve somehow never explored that page! But like I said above, I’m more down the path of figuring out what I’m consuming in FC and what to do about it, not how much FC I’ve added in the past, if that makes sense.

Good questions and thoughts! Yes, I guess my suggestion would double the real estate and with multiple additions it would get unwieldy — good call! I thought of it because I had all the timestamped datapoints I needed for my use case there on one screen, except I had ounces instead of the FC...

So in my Logs page I currently have: Today’s date Test results: 11 FC 7 days ago 8:15 PM Added 128 oz bleach 7 days ago 8 PM Test results: 8 FC When looking at this, I see I’m up net 3 FC over the last week but I also see that I added a gallon of bleach. The math I want to see is 8, +6, 11...

No problem! I’m not just trying to be nice either; most apps suck, this app both works and solves a need! (Compare to the IntelliCenter app that sits right next to it and it’s not even close!)

PoolMath is one of the few apps I pay for and it’s obviously indispensable! One suggestion: to help in the math aspect, I think when you log a chemical addition, it should show the estimated impact on level. Then, when you’re scrolling through the Logs page, you can see you added say 7.3 FC or...

Success (I think!) 7/24/2020 9:19 PM 13.0 0.0 7/25/2020 6:17 AM 13.0 0.0 So I learned a lot, and I still walk away with some mystery. It's still weird to me that CYA fell so fast. Just yesterday I lost 0.5 FC per hour between my daylight tests (more than my SWG can theoretically...

These pics are pretty much what I saw! I was just going off of filter pressure after pollen season and since mine hadn't gone up at all, I didn't clean it until this SLAM.