Hi,
Just joined TFP yesterday. My wife and I retired and moved from Maryland to our house on a canal here in Cape Coral on April 14, 2017, so we have been here just one month. This is our first swimming pool. It looks like a small modified kidney pool with more curves. In calculating the gallons I treated it as though it is a rectangle (length times width) and measured triangles at each curve to subtract. The total rectangle would have been 26x19 with average depth of 4 1/2 ft so that would have been 16,628 gallons. Then I subtracted the six triangles and arrived at 10,926 gallons so I'm using 11,000 on the chemical charts. As a pool newbie I'm looking for all the help I can get to have clear blue water instead of slightly hazy blue/green water!
Jim
Just joined TFP yesterday. My wife and I retired and moved from Maryland to our house on a canal here in Cape Coral on April 14, 2017, so we have been here just one month. This is our first swimming pool. It looks like a small modified kidney pool with more curves. In calculating the gallons I treated it as though it is a rectangle (length times width) and measured triangles at each curve to subtract. The total rectangle would have been 26x19 with average depth of 4 1/2 ft so that would have been 16,628 gallons. Then I subtracted the six triangles and arrived at 10,926 gallons so I'm using 11,000 on the chemical charts. As a pool newbie I'm looking for all the help I can get to have clear blue water instead of slightly hazy blue/green water!
Jim