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No, acrylic is not affected by salt.

It can occasionally be useful to have ozone in a spa, as it can help break down CCs. It is definitely NOT required though. If my ozone generator on my prior spa was functional, I would have tried it (while also maintaining appropriate FC), but I didn’t go buy a replacement ozone module. You...

For a number of reasons, I effectively don't shop at Amazon anymore. The primary reason initially was just terrible service. Back in 2009ish when I started out on my own, the free shipping over $25 almost always arrived in just 2-3 days. Eventually that pushed out to a week or more, and I...

I at first thought browsed there site and thought they were getting away with it by carefully avoiding mention of sanitizing anywhere. They were very careful to just use words like "oxidizer" and "oxidizes waste". However, in their shop they sell hygrogen perioxide, which they say "sanitizes and...

I mean…the next chapter may not be pools. The person I’m dating now has an interest in growing shrimp for sale using primarily or fully all solar energy. I’ve had an interest in aquapnics as a small business idea for a long time. And I’ve had an interest in solar power for even longer, since I...

If you browse through the analysis from the NERL I linked on the heat pump home energy analysis, ice is mentioned as one issue. It wasn’t actually the coil freezing up though. It was the water from defrosting the coil, running off and freezing to the metal shroud of the unit and blocking airflow...

I don't think anyone would be swimming if a pool heat pump had a negative COP. It takes a lot to bring even old, inefficient heat pumps to a negative COP. From what I've read, I can probably expect the heat pump at my current rental (there's no gas to my rental unit) to be around 1.5 even in the...

Just to put a close to this (I hate reading forum threads that just end without being completed). I separated from my wife and moved out of the house. So the completion of the landscaping is not something that I will be able to do now. I suspect even at my glacial rate I would have gotten it...

Do note that the sticky was written in 2008, and some things have been updated since. The sticky was left though as there wasn't a suitable all-in-one replacement yet. It's difficult to get a bunch of volunteers to update everything, and spas are not the main traffic to this site. For example, I...

With the very big disclaimer that I am not a gynecologist, nor do I pretend to be one on TV, I’d say this is one of those falsehoods that sounds good because there’s a grain of truth to it. From some Googling it appears in the majority of women lactobacillus is the primary good bacteria, keeping...

The last time I read about lactobacillus in was in regards to using it for beer and cidermaking…

Specifically the reason I was planning on doing soil pH tests was for growing blueberries, or for other specific plant purposes. But I never got around to that. I'm not personally a fan of the perfect turfgrass lawn and monoculture, but to each their own. I had clover in my yard at one place I...

Standard practice from what I've read is do test, rinse with distilled water, clean with cleaning solution (if needed depending on test done), followed by a rinse in distilled water to clean off the cleaning water, followed by storage in KCl storage solution. A rinse in distilled water shouldn't...

What we really needed was a picture of my face at 2:43 this morning as I looked at the Planetary K-Index which had gone the wrong direction since I had gone to bed…

I’ve been meaning to use my Apera PH60 with the distilled water and soil test, but haven’t gotten around to doing so yet.

Very late notice but the latest CMEs are about to hit the earth, forecasted around midnight CDT. Aurora may be visible overhead from as far south as northern Illinois, with visibility to the North as far south as Oklahoma City. So if you live in a northern state, perhaps try to wake up in the...