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When I was like 12 or something I went out to the back patio to call for my kitty and bring her in for the night. I moved towards what I THOUGHT was my sweet cat to pet it, and the most horrible hissing sharp toothed fanged red eyed opossum was there and it scarred me for life because my...

Okay, prototype seems like it will be a success. We had nothing to cap the other returns with, so we improvised with saran wrap until a permanent solution can be found. We took the suggestion to put a valve on the end to be able to adjust the flow and/or just turn it off without removing it...

I worry about the wet wood as well. We're also trying to make this as economically as possible, and that wood sounds expensive. As for the rocks, agreed, our only solution was to make the teenager dig a bigger hold than we needed to take that into account. He couldn't go to football practice...

A couple of reasons, some of which may be incorrect conclusions for sure. Appreciate you helping me talk through it. I should preface by saying I don't want to have to continually put these in and out. Too much effort. I wanted to set them up and just leave them in unless we're having a party...

I'm having the same problem. We've had the pool less than a year and been through four thermometers. It's ridiculous. The idea of one built into the skimmer seems great, do you think the temperature reading is more accurate with the water shielded from the sun? That wireless one looks nice...

So we're getting ready to try to install the outdoor shower. Our master bath is upstairs and I really want a place to just rinse off after swimming because I am lazy and upstairs is very very far away. I'd also like us to be able to rinse off before jumping in the spa. We had water run over to...

Just got back from Lowe's, attempting to install one of these tonight. After just a few days of straight 100+ weather and overnight lows in the low 70s our full sun all day pool is already feeling swampy and the last two night we didn't even want to get in, which is just so sad. Will update with...

No, sorry, I should have been more precise. I'm asking about the deck ones.

@Shirker I'm crowdsourcing this one.

While taking pictures of my umbrella sleeves for another thread, I realized there's standing water in them and they can become mosquito nurseries. The easy answer is to make sure the caps are screwed in when not in use, but I am lazy and routinely move my umbrella from the east to the west of my...

Went swimming in a warm pool over this hot weekend, it was not an enjoyable experience. It has me thinking how to prevent our own water temp from climbing too high when we need it most. Our pool will take full sun until 4 or 5 pm. Summer temps are high 90s to low 100s, days approaching 110 are...

Both of those are excellent points, thank you! I'm not sure I would have thought of either.

You read my mind. I came here to ask the same question, but searched first. I had this idea earlier this week after seeing one with a retractable canopy like below and having the same thought. Our little L portion sun shelf is 10 X 8, and I was thinking of putting a 10 x 12 pergola like the...