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That's huge savings! I was too scared to attempt DIY on this...mainly because I didn't trust my ability to measure. I wonder if I can get the company I used to give me the measurements, so I (hopefully 10-15 years) I can do it myself next time. haha! You certainly saved a bunch! I was surprised...

Steps aren't perfect but they're much better looking! before -- after That was earlier. The pool is FINALLY full! I overfilled a bit so that the first thing I could do was backwash... I had forgotten to do it before draining. Filter started up fine and I think we're all done now :) Just need...

Got the steps and fittings cut in today and they took out the blowers (suckers?). I put a half-gallon of 10% in and now we just fill :D Last thing we want to do is try and get the staining off the top of the steps.

I've got a bucket of tablets I had to resort to using when covid hit because bleach was out of stock everywhere. I was thinking of using the bucket up since my water has zero CYA, as a way to sit-and-forget chlorinate for a while and get CYA in there. I know from the last 2 years that with the...

Still filling up but it's moving along! I am loving the aqua coloration forming in the deep end. The water is so inviting!! I am most likely going to be shutting it all off late tonight. They told me to shut it all down when the water gets to the bottom step, then they are going to come cut in...

So I was going back to look at the ring video of the liner drop and so am so surprised, once it’s in the pool it went so fast! They made it look really easy, it was over in like 15-20 minutes. It look MUCH longer to prepare the dang hole in the ground 😂

They have to cut the steps out, don't they? I could ask to keep that part haha! They haven't cut anything in yet.

I am not at all sure, but I would say they look very similar to yours, and the fact that there is no rust with all that water makes me think so as well! Okay, it is nice to see someone else had all that algae, LOL. It was horrifying! I had just been watching youtube videos and people pulled...

Actually, when we had the freak 100-year winter storm earlier this year I had someone come out to emergency winterize the pool and he told me he'd been at this pool many years ago due to liner float! He said it was floating all up in the deep end. But, that was probably 10+ years ago. I am...

I was SO worried they'd tear this liner out and the walls would be pure rust. I was convinced that was where my iron was coming from. I think I actually had a nightmare about it. LOL But the walls seem pretty good. Heres a few hours later after being doused several times throughout the day with...

I haven't got a clue what it was originally! The top edges still had a little print on them and it was greyish looking but that could have been sun damaged too. So I really have no idea lol. I had actually wondered if maybe it was just a white liner, because there is absolutely no trace of a...

Finally empty. And I have to say... that hole seems SO MUCH BIGGER when it's empty o_O I had always heard it was best for it to be warm out! But... I was wondering if it could be TOO WARM. 100+ degree indexes... well, actually, it's going to be cooling down a little bit. Still plenty hot, but...

Seriously, it was honestly so frustrating, lol. The last few years we were able to swim comfortably by the end of May... my pool just reached "comfortable" last week, we had SO much rain and the temps were like 20 degrees below average. I was complaining about how the pool was too cold.. And...

You know it was just something I came across when I was searching for this particular liner. I saw it in a booklet but I was looking around for real photos of it. This site had the depth indicator... I do not know how accurate it is! I don't think I came across it anywhere else...

I scheduled back in March but it wasn’t until today that we were able to get things moving. Every company in town is overbooked and we have over a month of constant downpour so everyone also got really behind. Which means i’m now finally getting my liner replaced in the middle of a heat wave...

I didn't keep track but I guess I should have! The bucket is about half full of water, and I probably added a little over half a gallon jug of 7.5% bleach. Rough estimate. It was a lot, though, relative to the water amount. I did repeat the experiment, this time with powdered shock. Despite the...

No doubt there is iron in the pool! I am just trying to figure out where it comes from before I get to empty the pool and refill. I have done a ton of reading on managing it once it’s in there and while it works it’s extremely expensive. At least at one point I believe I had a lot of iron. Also...

I am replacing my liner soon. It's probably going to be some time in June, as all the companies are really backed up with covid delays, but we signed and put our deposit down today. In the meantime I am trying to come up with a plan to avoid the issue I've been having since I inherited the...

That is the jist of it! keeping your ph and chlorine on the lower side is important in extending the MM life, but also being careful not to let the chlorine drift too low to allow algae and require a slam. It's a delicate and frustrating balance! Another benefit of the MM is that for me I never...

My pool is about 25,000 gallons I believe. I was putting 3 bottles in in order to remove the stains. No, it never clouded up but it did cloud up when I used other products like jacks magic. Yes, the stains come back. It's not a cure all...just a way to remove a step (costly, though). I think...

No we do not.

How about some throw back photos to when we first uncovered the pool after moving in? It was holding water well then. It was full up when we uncovered it. You can see the liner off the tracks in several places...which remains to this day. It took over a month to rehab the pool, and that was in...

I have been losing water at a rate that just seems too high! I know evaporation is a thing but I'll go from top of skimmer to mid-skimmer in just a few days time and I have to add water every few days, for a few hours at a time. We tried repatching on the most suspect patch incase it had failed...

For the past few weeks I have been calling around trying to get some quotes on replacing my pool liner. Turns out in my small city there really aren't that many places that do it. The first company I called is already booked up into next year. The second company can get me in this year, but it...

They've started rolling blackouts here in Arkansas. Just had the first one, around 30 minutes. But, they did not tell us beforehand! And no text or robocall when it happened. They have been e-mailing and texting all day/yesterday asking us to conserve... so I really expected a warning...

Just got another text requesting we turn off our water heaters immediately.

Even though we are holding power, I have now gotten multiple e-mails from the power company basically begging everyone to conserve energy before they have to force blackouts (I guess Texas is already doing this?), they want us to turn off lights, unplug whatever we can, run the heat no higher...

This weather is so crazy, haha. I am trying really hard not to panic, but geez. Haven't had temps like this in so long. It has not gotten above freezing here for a few days now, and it is 13 tonight. Snow is suppose to start tomorrow afternoon, with a low of 10. I decided to drain my equipment...

I never knew for sure how it worked but I always thought it was something like that. The longest we went without power that I can recall was almost two weeks, and that was several years ago. Well... more like over a decade. We had remnants of a hurricane from the gulf and it brought lots of...

Right! I was only about 10 the last time something like this happened (if it actually happens). It is still talked about today. It was pretty wild. I don't know exactly how much snow and ice it was but it was deep and we did lose power then too, for days. It was actually kind of fun as a kid but...