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"EDIT: OOPS. I made a boo-boo. A BTU raises one pound of water one degree, not a gallon! Multiply the cost by 7.5" Richard, did you mean to convert from gallons to pounds? If so, the conversion is 8.25 lbs/gallon - you may have been thinking conversion of cubic feet to gallons, multiplying...

Rebecca - I would agree that simplest is best (and generally less expensive). Our pool's skimmer must not be as efficient as yours - we only have 1 skimmer and a deep end drain for a 25 K gallon pool. Lots of leaves get caught in the skimmer, but more eventually fall to the bottom and...

A couple of years ago we were experiencing significant leakage through our aging vinyl liner, mainly at the corner where the vertical steel wall meets the vermiculite-bottomed slope in the deep end. It was difficult to see the leak because of the speckled liner pattern. Turns out it was slightly...

After our mesh loop-lock cover rotted away, I was looking for an economical (read, "cheap" ) way to keep leaves, branches, etc. out of our pool. Use a leaf net - it worked to some extent, but enough "stuff" worked its way down into the pool, that I had a week's worth of work to clear the greeen...

We had a DelOzone Trio-Pure for three years (pool seasons). The Trio-Pure is a combined ozonator/swcg, and while the concept was good and the unit did the job when it was operating correctly, there were several problems we encountered related to quality control of the product: cracked plastic...

Good point Anemone - perhaps they are generally not as sturdy as regular covers - however, leaves aren't that heavy unless they are wet and the net allows the water to pass through. As for anchoring it, I was thinking of using bungy cords or ropes through the grommets and tying to our fence -...

We inherited our pool and it came with a dense mesh cover with lock-loops (set into the pool's conrete apron). It let in water but, for the most part, kept out major leaves and branches. We didn't blow off or remove the leaves, so many of them decayed on the cover and the sediment and...

There is a system that uses a combination of ozonator plus a salt water chlorine generator - the ozone oxidizes organic matter as water passes through the system and also chloramines are destroyed - the result is much lower FC concentrations required - we had one for 3 years - when it worked -...

Here's a thought: swap your new energy-efficient pump for a new, not-so-energy efficient pump plus cash for the differential value with someone else who doesn't have solar power. Sock away the extra cash in your solar power maintenance fund.

This may be a too simplistic way of looking at it, but it seems to me that any $$ savings of electrical usage for any of your appliances (pool pump, refrigerator, range, etc.) will only be about 10% of what is typically quoted because typically people pay for 100% of their energy usage, not 10%...