Check you pool closely

[Titan7]

So today I am vacuuming the pool after a monsoon, I see what I thought was some debris from the trees, nope a metal anklet that stained my 2 month old pool with multiple rust marks. Used vitamin C tablets rubbing and crushed 1000 mg tablets. Removed the rust stains, but of course my eye keeps looking there like it lightened the pebble in that area? Not sure but rust is gone, did not think AA would lighten pebble, but it might have been that way an not I am noticing it as I am staring at the spot?

Anyways, I check my pool daily, it’s not my wife’s so we are wondering if someone sneaked into the pool or it was thrown over the fence into the pool. Lovely, but AA worked, just not sure it lightens the surrounding area. Never had that issue before.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Wow...you need a security camera out back! Pronto!

Maddie

 

[Titan7]

We have one, nothing on the camera, the only thing I can think of is someone threw it in the pool. It’s just my wife and I who live in the house but there is a walking path behind us, who knows? I guess we are lucky it was not a box of finish nails.

 

[Mdragger88]

Maybe a bird picked it up then dropped it? They like shiny things!
Beautiful pool & yard btw

 

[TinFoilHat]

We too have a rust stain on our pebble. It was from a bobby pin that fell from our daughter in law. At least we knew who used them. It blended into the pebble and somehow stuck itself to it so that we didn't find it for perhaps weeks. We've never been able to remove that spot even with acid washing.

 

[nuttyp]

Maybe it fell from an open door of a Boeing 737? Space junk on reentry? But I like the bird idea, they do things like that. One day a fish fell from the sky near me, I thought it was end times until I saw the duck on a very high branch above me. So the anklet falls into a lake, fish eats anklet, bird eats fish, bird discards anklet. Or if they mow around that path, or in your yard, the anklet could have shot out of a mower. I'm out of ideas about the source, but fully agreed that careful and regular vacuuming can save a lot of trouble, especially after any work is done in and around the pool. I used to put on a diving mask to carefully vac, but now I send in the robot to do the work. And you wouldn't be the first folks to have uninvited swimmers. Perhaps more common in community pools and vacation rentals.

 

[Titan7]

I hope that was it, a bird, scary to think what vandals could do.

Assuming I am seeing things IE the pebble lightening in the area? There are other spots that are a bit lighter, no pebble is perfect.

Every time I fix something they get spilled whether it be in the pool the house the tile the pavers I clean it then always wonder if I mess something up afterwards my OCD

Night shot!

 

[nuttyp]

Night shot - and day shot - both beautiful!! And you gave me an idea to pull a few pavers and replace with 'canine grass' for my little doggies when I can't get them into the yard fast enough. Farther way from the pool of course