My CYA is at 20, so I popped in 154 oz of 12.5% and brushed it. That was for 10 ppm of FC, but I forgot the pool is low so it's a bit higher than that. In any case, this is the pool now!
Note that it is filling. I figured with it going green already and all the leaves the best way to deal with it is to open it! So I drug out the pump and filter and started putting things together.
First up I opened up the filter to check the sand level. About 1/4 the way between min and max. Also some "fibery" stuff on the surface. I skimmed off the junk on the top of the sand with my hand, at least the majority of it, then topped up the sand level.
Whatever fibery stuff this was, it was on the multi-port filter screen. So I took it off and pressure washed it, after trying to use a hose but it wasn't getting it all out.
The intakes that come with the pool use this double hose setup, as seen in this picture from last year.
Unfortunately the mating valve of those two small hoses broke last fall from ice damage, cause I waited just a
tad too long to winterize the pool. Also note the cheap oring that has cracked already.
I haven't been using these intakes since I installed my skimmer so if I could just figure out a way to plug them I'd be all set to fill. The way it works is there is a rubber tube that's glued or welded to the wall of the pool. A hard plastic pipe with a screen slides into this from the inside of the pool, and the hose goes over the rubber tube and clamps down on it.
I remembered I had some plastic plug looking pieces, so I looked through the "leftover" pool parts box. There were two black plastic plugs, labeled as "intake screen plugs" or something like that. They looked like the right diameter so I slid them into the rubber tubes from the inside of the pool and after a little bit of filling it looks like they seal just fine!
Then that left the skimmer connection. If you recall from last year I got an adapter that screwed into the skimmer and the Intex hose screwed into that. But it was a cheap adapter and I had some trouble getting the hose to seal to the adapter. Same issue this year, only I couldn't get it to seal at all. On top of that the oring that sealed the adapter to the skimmer had cracked...yet another cheap oring.
With a lack of Intex style hose gaskets and a quick search showing no orings big enough in stock, I remembered I had a tube of gasket maker in my toolbox. I pulled that out and I'm going to attempt to use that to seal the hose to the adapter and the adapter to the skimmer.
It's not meant for plastic, but if it works, great! If not, I'll have to figure out something else, but it'll delay my pool opening. The instructions are to tighten until it starts squishing out, then wait an hour, then tighten to normal torque. I applied it to the hose and the adapter, and in ten minutes I'll tighten that up then apply it to the adapter to skimmer joint. It says allow 24 hours for liquid use after applying so I'll fill the pool up to the bottom of the skimmer tonight, then tomorrow afternoon I'll test the joint and if all is good finish filling up the pool and start up the pump.
