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The spa should be under freeze protection as well. My setup (Pentair automation) cycles between pool and spa mode every half hour when the freeze protection kicks in. Good luck!

Yipes! Your gas bill is going to be scary, neighbor! I wonder if you can just disconnect the automation line to the heater as a temporary workaround—you know, just unplug the RS-485 cable.

So sorry pooling! The base is long gone.

Haha! :lol: love it! Yeah, my scupper is a Bobé. It's really lovely.

We've got a copper scupper for a rain curtain that empties into the pool. I use the copper test kit from TFTestKits monthly and an never get a reading. Also, my daughter's blonde hair is still blonde, so if there's any copper leaching it's really quite minimal.

Re: question on winter operations for inground w spillway Te North of Dallas here and we keep it open year round. If we want to do some winter hot tubbing we just fire it up like Cajun and step in after an hour. Or if we want to burn through a lot of money we heat the pool itself. The system...

Awesome. What does "CPO" mean?

Hah! That's great! I dare a hurricane to even try!

Welcome, welcome from Allen TX. Just came out of our pool and to cooler weather I say phbtpbtbptbt!

While I never let my local Leslie's test my water, they are an invaluable resource for spare parts on the same day that you break something that you absolutely need. They're like the Radio Shack of pool plumbing.

And yet ... Winter is coming. (What? No Game of Thrones fans?)

Not sure about above ground, but my in-ground doesn't close and I'm north of Dallas. The pump is set to automatically come on when the air temperature drops below 39°F.

I put together a bunch of PVC pipe in all sorts of configurations. The kids then slide them into the hollow centers of pool noodles and make floating sculptures, like Tinker Toys. It's friction that holds the noodle to the pipe. Might be able to construct a chair with them, never tried.

Wow! Clever! Yeah, vacuum the bottom and maybe add a soundtrack and it'd be a great endorsement.

If you're at zero FCC, it probably means you need to renew your Ham Radio License! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Uh oh! jhalpinjr, they're hex head zinc covered bolts. Looks like I'm in for some future ... ahem ... maintenance! EEEP! Bama Rambler: haha! Sharp eyes!

crek31: that is adorable. I wonder if I can convince my daughter that Weekly Pool Brushing Day is fun...

I put it in the skimmer—BUT it's a venturi-skimmer with the suction closed, so all it does is dissolve/blow out salt chunks. The in-floor cleaners take care of the rest.

JohnT nailed it: take a shower and soak your hair before you take a dip. (I used to do that, but now I prefer the spray-in conditioner.)

My builder also advised against the zero or beach entry, and precisely for the same reasons: birds.

Around here where the fill water is so calcium heavy such that when my daughter wakes up in the middle of the night she doesn't ask for a glass of water but instead asks for a glass of "chalk juice" the scale on the platinium plates is readily apparent. You can do an acid-clean if you really...

I love a happy ending.

Over on the Indiana Hill Billy Pool Dig thread, user 8corneflakes showed off a pic of their beautiful—and bargain priced—cantilever umbrella from Kohl's. We loved it (and the price) we got one as well! Here's how it looked on Kohl's website: Unfortunately, the base for it is a monstrosity...

Hah! Awesome ASCII Homer!

Hahaha! Oh you know we love duraleigh. That's why we tease.

Yum! All I need now is a cold one.

Welcome, welcome!

Thanks for the umbrella source! We got the exact same model, and same price with coupon. What a deal! One drawback is the umbrella base. It's huge and ugly as sin. I'm going to toss it and do a concrete in-ground solution instead. Your backyard is just amazing. Well done!

It is indeed totally worth it! Thanks for helping out.

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