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Thanks. I’ll give this a try.

Royal Entrance Drop In Step Tried to upload a pic but couldn’t get it to work. The above Should take you to our steps. The cracks are in the lower two steps directly in the right corner when you’re facing the steps. They are about 2 inches long and not gaping. Appreciate any suggestions.

HI everyone: We have the Royal Entrance Steps for our 18 ft. above ground pool. 10 years old - cracks in the bottom two steps in the corner have developed. Also need a new flange on that side - currently being held by good old duct tape! Considering replacing stairs, but then thought maybe...

I realized when I tried to use the plastic ladder we got that: 1 - I am scared of heights and 2 - those risers are not great for short folks! We moved quickly to The Royal Entrance steps and all is well. Depends on your pool if that type of step would be of more benefit to you - two handles to...

This sounds worth considering, although I don't have a clue about them. How are they hooked up to the pool for example? We are not too mechanically inclined!

Yes SWG was suggested by another (better) pool store manager. Problem is at about $650 to purchase, may not be worth it as we plan to live in this home for maybe another 3-4 years only.

Absolutely! I have a Taylor testing kit and I get my refills from Dave here. :cool: I figured I'd have to get rid of some water and refill. Just wasn't sure how high I should get the chlorine in the meantime. Yes, that dark side almost got me :puker:

So after using BBB for about 5 years and then granular stuff for a few years to avoid all those bleach bottles, we went to the local pool store and got talked into Bacquacil. :pale: Haven't started it yet and became increasingly reluctant to do so after reading more about it on this forum...

Well we ended up needing a new pump - got a Hayward.....must say it is so much quieter than the other ever was....

Hi folks: finally getting warm to get the pool open here in Virginia. Everything ready and bam NO pool motor. After a while thought it might be the electrical receptacle and so unplugged and plugged the motor in another outlet. Great - motor is up and running! BUT it is at least twice as...

Wow, alright Savannah rocked it! Liked her version better than Taylor Swift's. Makes tuning into The Voice even more fun this year! I thought I recognized that name! Good luck!!! :party: :whoot:

Sugarland sent a link to the video on their email list. That's where she found the video. Congrats again! :party:

This is wonderful! My partner came home tonight and said "you have to see this video", I watched the young singer and was thinking she looked and sounded familiar to me. Enter Sugarland, who we like very much...I asked her to look up the name because it looked like the girl from TFP, heard...

yup, loving the skimming here too. It is oddly relaxing and yes, my elbow aches after the last windstorm............wait, is that a little piece of bark over there, just one more skim... ah nice to have the pool back open again!

We really like the Royal Entrance Steps very much. Work well, don't seem to have issues at all, can be heavy to move in and out but can be done easily enough with three people. Welcome to all the Canadians :goodjob: - I am Canadian currently living in Virginia. Was in the Orillia area...

I;m probably missing something here as usual, :hammer: but how is it that the skimmer sock does not get sucked down through the basket and end up in the filter?

Wow, I musta missed that thread last year! Maybe we need to get some pool and put spinners on top of them so that something is always moving in the wind above the pool. No trees overhang the pool. I guess they go away eventually though huh? Meanwhile, I'm vacuuming to waste every day...

AAAAAAAAh ha........we caught the bird. Big old blackbird dumped a load into the pool whle someone was watching.....guess that is where the "poops and worms" are coming from. so, how can i persuade the blackbirds to move along??? :whip: :whip:

Ted - Richmond says hi :wave: More yuckies in the pool this morning, we do have a little deck attached but it's hard to see how they are getting up it. Probably the birds. It's been really hot here so the water level slowly creeps down as well, maybe the birds are drinking it too! We are...

Huh, thanks Ohm boy! Given the noise that the birds around our back yard have been making lately - day and night :grrrr: this might be what's going on, along with an occasional suicidal worm...... :(

So, the worms or sluggly things, whatever they are :?: seem to like our pool. Where might they be coming from? The pool was clean upon opening, every day we get about 10 more. Some last night looked more like slugs rather than worms. Also some look like they could be big bird droppings...

We are in Va and do cover the pool. I have thought about leaving it open but with all the leaves and extra electricity it seems like a lot of extra work. We used a mesh cover this year and really liked that, much less pumping off water throughout the year and much less water needed upon...

Given the above time frames, is it better to run the pump overnight or during the day. right now we run 24/7 and we probably don't need to.....

so, we have joined the worm people!! Upon opening we found a slug - yuck....got rid of that. Now we are noticing a few weird looking things that look like large bird droppings. Upon closer examination we found that they are worms with a large white head on them - looks like they are being...

Just opened it up last night! Was bright and clear, till we dumped the last dregs of the pollen left on the cover...oops :hammer: some vacuuming and 3 gallons of bleach later, it is clearing up nicely and we can hardly wait to jump in! :goodjob: hope everyone has a great summer!

very amusing, great writing :goodjob:

I just finished reading all the pool school articles as a refresher to opening up the pool tomorrow. Lovely job of reorganizing this section - very nice flow!

Yeah, love that 24!! Poor Jack - not having a good day at all.

:sleep: slowly getting around to taking the leaves off my cover and wishing for spring startup time again. Have to round up all the weeds around the pool again too. Miss that water! Check by here every week or two now while I wait.

Hi Ted- good to hear from you :wave: We did indeed have a great summer - love this BBB method... We can keep the debris to a minimum, we use the leaf pool thingy to take the leaves off the water and when it dries up some, we can blow other stuff off - with a huff and a puff - well okay...