3 week vacation.

[DrThop]

Just like the title says. We’re leaving o a 3 week vacation. I am planning to leave the pool covered, at SLAM level (useful going any higher?) and leave a floater with a 6-10 pucks.

I have done things similar in the world yet with great success, but have never done it in the middle of the summer, and Texas is really hot and dry this year.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[HermanTX]

I think it is great that you have a cover to reduce the UV effect. That will help as well as keep debris out. .
Do you have autofill for water level?
It would be great to have a neighbor or family member come to check it once a week. Would it be easy for them to roll back the cover and add a gallon of LC?
I recently was away for 9 days and brought it up to SLAM level & added pucks in floater - similar to your plan. I do not have a cover.
I do not have autofill so I asked a neighbor (who has a pool) to come by to check my water level and they added water for 30 mins. as well as several quarts of LC.

 

[DrewLG]

We’re leaving o a 3 week vacation. I am planning to leave the pool covered, at SLAM level (useful going any higher?) and leave a floater with a 6-10 pucks.

I'd look at it this way:

Assuming that your CYA is at 50 now, SLAM level for you is 20ppm. And PoolMath says that ten 8-oz trichlor pucks will raise your FC by 37ppm (and CYA by 22).

So you'll have 57ppm FC that has to last 21 days. And at the end you'll want to have at least 7ppm FC, because your CYA by then will be at 70. So you can lose 50/21 = 2.38ppm per day.

The pool won't lose FC at a constant rate, and the pucks won't be adding FC at a constant rate, so throw in some margin for safety and say that you can lose only 2ppm per day.

So you'll be fine if and only if your covered pool loses less than 2ppm FC per day. Does it?