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So this is my new setup on the back porch. What is cooler than watching football on a 100" screen? Watching it while sitting in 103* water. The inflatable hot tub was obviously a lot cheaper than a real one but one of the big factors for me was portability. I will move it out by the pool for it...

I am dealing with a very stealthy leak in my liner which I have searched for hours with the snorkel and used up all my red food coloring bottle. As I am now very frustrated, I am now devising a contraption to go around the edge of the pool with a large amount of green in hopes I might be able to...

Any ideas on how I can get this sucker out? I bought a new quick connect and the old one broke off while trying to install the new one. It's in there pretty solid as I normally have to use slip joint pliers to get it off.

I did an AA treatment yesterday and went to test my CYA before adding bleach to make sure I wasn't adding too much for stains to return immediately. The CYA reading was around 60 or 70 but I know that cannot be the case because I haven't even added any CYA yet this spring. It should be down...

I doesn't appear anyone has started a thread like this in a couple years. My local Lowes just got in their first pallets of the Pool Essentials 10% bleach and the price is a whopping $5.98 per gallon. Yikes!!! Lowes was a little higher than HD or WM for bleach but still this is basically a 100%...

I have mentioned to my wife at least 10 times per year that I want to get a pool heater. It is on top of my list to Santa every year but I guess I am chronically on the naughty list. The other day she shocked me with the response of "well find out how much it all would cost and then we will...

Now with the pool closed for winter, I have nothing interesting to post on TFP. How about a thread with picture of puppies??? This is my 9-week-old Vizsla we took home this past weekend. I do a lot of running so I wanted a running partner for when she gets older and Vizsla's are supposed to be...

I have one of those giant poly tarps which ended up getting two baseball sized holes in it last winter. That was the first year for that tarp so not yet ready to throw it out. Anyone have suggestions for a good way to patch holes that large? I tried duct tape with PVC cement but that failed...

We are doing a major renovation in our house and have had to move into a condo complex which has a community pool. I took my 2-year-old swimming yesterday and of course, I had to bring my test kit before we got in. When I did the FC test with the R-0001 & 2 expecting it to turn pink, it didn't...

I remember in high school all the geeky kids would play Pokemon cards in the cafeteria. I remember thinking how stupid I thought it was and how the fad would be gone soon with their hundreds of invested dollars wasted away. Now I am 35 with a 7-year-old who is obsessed with the cards and those...

Our ISR instructor just built an in-ground pool in her backyard which is supposed to me completed 100% within the next few days. She is eager to get everything fired up so she can get ISR lessons started for the year but her PB said they cannot run the heater until they have had the pool running...

I was changing out the Poly-fil in my pvc pipe contraption and thought I would share the color of the Poly-fil to show it really does capture the iron. The brown that is constantly on my vinyl liner is very concentrated into the Poly-fil. The one clump which is kind of white was brown like the...

We just had an appraisal on our house to do a refinance. Our appraiser was chatting with us while he was here and told us that having a large in-ground pool adds approx $20k to the value of the house. I know it depends on the area but I have always been told and read that a pool doesn't add...

Anyone up north have experience with ice dams in gutters and how to treat them? My gutter icicles are growing with the minor amount of heat from the attic melting the bottom layer of ice/snow on my roof. None of the other houses around me appear to have any major icicles and I am getting...

We are supposed to get a polar vortex end of next week with temps in Memphis forecast to get as low as 10 degrees a couple nights. I'm currently doing my annual AA treatment for iron stains so I've already "opened" my pool. If I have no heater, should I be concerned with such extremely low...

Anyone know how to get this metal pin in the multiport valve handle back into place? I guess after years of turning in the same direction, it is starting to slip out. The spring is so tight that even tapping it with a hammer or rubber mallet isn't getting it to move.

I have many large trees around my pool which late in the summer are under heat stress and are constantly shedding leaves into the pool. It isn't realistic to empty my skimmer basket 3 times per day and if I don't empty it for several days, it will get pretty full. So I know the FC is going to...

Is anyone able to educate me on the functional differences of the different types of return eyeballs? I currently have inconsistent flow among my 3 returns with the middle being the strongest, shallow end closest to the pump 2nd, and the deep end furthest from the pump is the weakest flow. I...

I just had a large tree over my pool get some major trimming which is yielding approx 3 hours additional sunlight per day in the morning. These 3 hours are from 9-12 so it isn't going to be solar noon but still much more direct sunlight. If I used to have FC loss of 1-1.5 each day based on 5-6...

Anyone have any creative ideas for storing your pool towels outside near the pool? I don't have a screened in porch or anything and we have tried one of those plastic storage boxes/benches but ants got into it. We have and use a ton of towels during the week and lugging them up/down stairs all...

I have a leak which I lost about an inch of water over night without the pump running and solar cover on so I know it is not in the plumbing or evaporation. With the 7 day supposed to be a cold snap, I am not going to want to be swimming around with a snorkel looking for a hole in the liner...

I have one of the water slide inflatables with the big blower which is always difficult to get completely dry before storing. We have been using it 5 days in a row and have left it in the yard so dew/rain have kept it pretty wet even when not in use. I am going to use my pump sprayer to...

First, I don't have a heater and my wife won't let me invest in one right now since we just paid off our new liner. I also don't have enough room near my pool to set up enough solar panels to make any difference. With schools being shut down, I am desperate to entertain my 5 year old son and I...

Why are instructions on pool chlorine products always so wrong when it comes to the amount of chlorine? I have no doubts in the quality of the bleach from Home Depot but why would they say to use 1 to 1.5 for FC in stabilized pools? If they are saying up to 3 with no cya then why wouldn't they...

Due to having so many oak trees in my back yard, I deal with tannin stains in the Spring and Fall. In Spring, I normally balance the chemicals and get everything cleaned out at open but leave on the winter tarp until the trees stop vomiting into the pool. Since the kids are out of school and I...

I have had staining issues pretty much every year of the 5 years I have owned the pool. These stains are tannins from all my oak trees, iron, and copper stains. I normally start off the season when water is still cold with an ascorbic acid treatment and I am about to do it again. This will be my...

Has anyone ever hosted ISR (Infant Survival Resource) classes at their own pool? It would be 10-15 kids under the age of 5 coming every weekday for 6 weeks with their lessons in 10 minute sessions. We are likely going to host starting in June and we are supposedly released of any liability since...

I must have mixed up the dropper bottles in a hurry and measured incorrectly that I had almost no chlorine in my pool. I added 2.5 gallons of bleach just in case there were any algae spores and now I am measuring FC of 20 with my CYA at 40 which is above SLAM level. Besides intentionally...

Does anyone else who has set up a tv projector for pool-side movies and sports mind sharing some pictures? I have a projector mounted in my bonus room which I take down a couple times during the year to set up on my porch and project on the side of the house. The attached picture was from this...

My 5 year old son starts swim team tomorrow and having a pool in our back yard is getting his skills an early kick-start. He had a pair of TYR Magna mask goggles which worked great but the strap recently broke and I made the mistake of getting him the same pair in small (not youth) so they don't...