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I would recommend having enough goggles on hand as well as some diving toys, squirt guns typically just result in screaming and are not worth it in my opinion.

sorry to hear that, how often does this happen? I have to live with several trees that overhang the pool and drop debris all year round, they have become the target of all my animosity. Cleaning the pool 3 times a week gets old.

Confirmed that my parents can watch the kids this weekend so I can open.

I use the paint strainers from Lowes or Home Depot and they work great for pollen and other small debris. In regards to what I have found: Frogs, birds, mice, a mole, and a couple of snakes; all of which were dead by the time I found them.

i haven't tested my city water for CH in a long time so I am not sure what the numbers are. However I have not had to put water in the pool for several years now due to the amount of snow and rain we get throughout winter and the amount of rain we get through out the spring and summer months...

Very surprised that the heater came on without any issues. This is the 2nd time in 6 years that the heater started up in the spring. Also had SLAM for 2 days and add about 17 lbs of CH.

Water temp was at 55 so I removed the cover and opened the pool. Water was perfectly clear after six months, which allowed me to see the hundreds of worms and layer of fine dirt on the bottom of the pool. Pulled the plugs, primed pump and dumped anti-freeze from suction side to waste...

I went to north Myrtle Beach in the summer of 2015 with my family and brought my test kit. Pool had high CYA and PH and low FC and a CC of 2 after the first test, all told I spent about $40 on bleach to make it safe for the kids to swim. The pool next door that was managed by the same company...

I live in northern VA and this will be the 2nd or 3rd big storm since we bought the house. One thing to be aware of is to have a way to identify where the pool starts incase the kids play in the yard. It gets difficult to tell at ground level when everything is covered in white snow.

I am not sure if this will work for you but I have had ants around my house and pool for a while, not nearly as many as you described. I also have an exterminator service that I would call out once a week to spray for the ants and it did not seem to work. I purchased some Terro liquid ant...

Make everyone sit in their cars with the windows up for 10 minutes, everyone will want to get in the pool after that. On a serious note do you have a pool heater? I also normally host a Memorial Day party and last year it was cold and wind, however the pool temp was around 90 so it all worked...

Cut down a large branch from one of the several Birch trees that overhang the pool as I try to minimize the amount of debris that constantly falls into the pool. Other than that pool is still covered with water temp around 46.

I was in a leslies in VA yesterday to buy Calcium and asked for Liquid Chlorine and they sell 4 gallons for $20.00. Leslies in Manassas,VA.

Also from Northern Virginia here - Manassas Park, VA. I notice in your signature you state you have a Nature2 Clearvision System. I believe that is a mineral system and it is not recommended to use mineral systems as they can add metals to your pool which will cause staining especially since...

For the resurface, did you use color plaster or pool paint? Can you provide any tips or input for the method you used?