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Stocked up today at Aldi. ~$4.75/gal. Ready to open up whenever the weather decides to not be cold, windy, and rainy.

Ordered my refill kit as well. We got almost 4" of rain on Saturday. I'm kind of scared to peak under the cover and see how things look.

Yesterday was a pool drain day for me as well. Hopefully the last of the year and we can use whatever rain we get from here on out to fill back up in anticipation of opening. I'm thinking early April to pull the cover off and start the pump back up.

Best of luck to all my warm winter friends.

I drained about 4" of water yesterday. Last night we got another 4" of rain.

That is a relief. Perhaps I just hyped myself up into thinking it was a problem when I saw the issues that the other two posters had run into.

I closed my pool two days ago and as part of that, I took the filter cartridges out of my Pentair Clean and Clear 320 cartridge filter and gave them a good cleaning with the hose. This was my first full year using the pool after putting it in last year. I noticed that the end caps for my...

Thats a wrap on our first full pool season. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to maintain the pool all year, even with having to manually vacuum once a week. TFP was no doubt a large contributor in making my first full year of pool ownership a positive one. Closing was easy again. -...

Can you link the adapters I'd need to connect up to the Pentair unions at the pump? I still think the easiest thing for me to do would be to connect to the unions at the SWG. Just not sure what parts I'd need to do that yet.

Just for clarity, you're talking about blowing out from the black Jandy 3 way valve in front of my filter, right?

Here's what my equipment pad looks like. I was hoping to take the SWG out and blow towards the returns (to the right) and backwards towards the filter, pump, skimmers and drain (to the left.) @PoolStored that's interesting. I'd have to get a second pump lid to be able to make that work. I'm not...

Last year was my first year closing. I got by with a large air compressor and air valves threaded into the drain port on my pump. This year I invested in the Cyclone Blower, so I'm trying to figure out how I want to hook that up to blow out the system. I remove my SWG and bring it inside for...

Are we going for pool decking here or like, raised decking?

Sounds like you're looking for a skimmer guard. There are some commercial and DIY options linked here. https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Skimmer_Guards What is your goal with this? Are you trying to heat your pool? You will lose a significant amount of your surface skimming...

I've admittedly never ventured into The Deep End but doesn't some of the salt get used up by the SWG during the chlorine generating process? From what I remember from HS chemistry salt was NaCl, and I always just kind of assumed some of that Cl was getting pulled to make chlorine.

I dump everything into our kitchen sink. The smart stir bean ends up sticking to the metal sink, and then I just wash it off with water from the facuet.

Ah, so it's not a new new pool, but a regular new pool ;). https://www.troublefreepool.com/blog/2019/01/18/leak-detection/ Since you say have a leak with and without the pump on, it is probably not in your suction side plumbing. If you wanted to verify, you could plug any returns and...

Bubbling/Simmering water from the ground doesn't sound normal (unless you live near Yellowstone ☺️), but I think you're probably on the right path. Aside from seeing the water bubbling, how do you know you have a leak? Did you happen to do a bucket test? If you could post photos of the light...

Welcome to TFP! I think you're making the right adjustments based on your test results.

Looks like the Stegmeier Adjustable Height Paver Drain that I have. Here's the adapter to connect to PVC. You'll probably need an end cap and at least one coupler. https://drainageproducts.us/stegmeier-adjustable-height-paver-drain-end-adapter/...

Tree roots grow relatively close to the surface, so during the excavation for your pool they'll remove any that would cause a settling issue affecting the structure of your pool, so no issues there. I could see an issue with settling of the surrounding pool deck if a proper base wasn't...

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Congratulations! Getting the liner in and filling with water is such a huge milestone.

I really like my Pool Blaster Max battery powered vacuum, but the check valve design is a massive weak spot with it. It's just a little rubber flapper with two small holes where it attaches to plastic nubs. After sucking up debris, the rubber just rips and then when you lift the vacuum out of...

So, assuming I run my SWG 24/7 while the pool is open, at 20% output. 10k hour total output * 5 (20% runtime) = 50,000 hours of runtime at 20% output 50,000 hours / 24 hours = 2083 days 2083 days / 180 days (~Apr - Oct) = 11.5 years I'm theoretically looking at 11.5 years of usage out of...

Do you know what's the relationship with the 10k hour lifespan and the output percentage? Is it rated for 10k hours at max output, or 10k hours at min output? Or average?

Drained more water yesterday. We've had rain or a thunderstorm every day for over a week now. We were supposed to have a 4th of July pool party but it's looking doubtful that the forecast will allow for that. I'm in the same boat as @V___25 with the colder than usual weather temps too. Local...