Hi TFP mods. I've been watching a video of a family purchasing a pool.
For your reading pleasure:
The pool guy discusses the types of filters available and which to use for the family's new pool.
The Father says where they live "(unintelligible)"
The pool guy then tells the father "In that area you could be just out far enough that you're on a tough well."
Father "We have iron."
Pool guy "If metals are in it then the sand's gonna handle that better than the cartridge. What will end up happening with the cartridge. It turns red or orange and it rusts by absorbing all that stuff. And eventually it gets gunked up to the point where you have to buy new ones more often than you should. You should be able to, with the cartridge filters, last about a year, maybe 2 years. But with hard water you're lucky to get, you know, a couple months out of the season . . ."
Father "Do you have to do anything with the sand filters?"
Pool guy "With the sand, you don't. Change out the sand once every 3-5 years. Unless you have extremely, extreeeemally hard water. You have to have levels (unintelligible words . . )"
Father "How do you know when to change out the sand?"
Pool guy "When you backwash to the point where it's still high pressure in there. That means some of the calcium might have actually clumped it up to the point where it doesn't work. Or if sand starts to spit out into your pool. That means your sand filter's either broken or just means that your sand's finally cooked and you need to get new sand."
They sold him a 27 ft AG pool, winter cover, in-line chlorination system, 2 hp pump, 250 pounds of sand, a start up kit, enough chemicals to last about 2 weeks then come in for free water testing for more chemicals and free water testing any time.
Entertaining to watch.
At the end of the video, the mother was giggling, the son was jumping around excited and the father pretended to cry.
For your reading pleasure:
The pool guy discusses the types of filters available and which to use for the family's new pool.
The Father says where they live "(unintelligible)"
The pool guy then tells the father "In that area you could be just out far enough that you're on a tough well."
Father "We have iron."
Pool guy "If metals are in it then the sand's gonna handle that better than the cartridge. What will end up happening with the cartridge. It turns red or orange and it rusts by absorbing all that stuff. And eventually it gets gunked up to the point where you have to buy new ones more often than you should. You should be able to, with the cartridge filters, last about a year, maybe 2 years. But with hard water you're lucky to get, you know, a couple months out of the season . . ."
Father "Do you have to do anything with the sand filters?"
Pool guy "With the sand, you don't. Change out the sand once every 3-5 years. Unless you have extremely, extreeeemally hard water. You have to have levels (unintelligible words . . )"
Father "How do you know when to change out the sand?"
Pool guy "When you backwash to the point where it's still high pressure in there. That means some of the calcium might have actually clumped it up to the point where it doesn't work. Or if sand starts to spit out into your pool. That means your sand filter's either broken or just means that your sand's finally cooked and you need to get new sand."
They sold him a 27 ft AG pool, winter cover, in-line chlorination system, 2 hp pump, 250 pounds of sand, a start up kit, enough chemicals to last about 2 weeks then come in for free water testing for more chemicals and free water testing any time.
Entertaining to watch.
At the end of the video, the mother was giggling, the son was jumping around excited and the father pretended to cry.
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- he was like “so, u just believe everything u read on the internet?” Fast forward nearly 10 years later - he’s explaining to people why i put bleach in the pool & that apparently it works so he doesn’t ask too many questions 
