I know this is what I'm suppose to do. But how in the heck do you create a new topic?
I know this is what I'm suppose to do. But how in the heck do you create a new topic?
LexieLou.. love the pics of your pool. I lived with one of those older pools. Most people think its a gunite shell when they warn that it may float. This one looks similar to the construction of the old pool we had in a house that I rented for a few years. If its the same it won't float. Our's was constructed of a concrete slab with structural (probably cinder blocks) on the sides. and then the whole thing was plastered. So it was built like a house! It wouldn't float any more than someone's basement. We used to drain ours annually to paint and refill. That was back in the days when water was not metered in our area, it was flat rate based on your house size and acreage and that sort of stuff. Those days are long gone. Thinking back on it the whole filtration system was under powered for the pool. there was no automatic sweep.. this was old school, someone went out in the morning and vacuumed the bottom. And we were just renters so we didn't care.. we were just jazzed to have a pool. So in the winter it would turn into a frog pond.. then in the spring we would drain.. paint and refill!
We'll dredge the bottom of the pool much more carefully in the future if it ever gets this murky again, that's for sure!
This is definitely similar! It is concrete. When we first moved in, we drained it to find that the old owner had patched some cracks with automotive body putty, lol. We scraped it, sealed it, and epoxied it - looked great! We'll have to drain and redo that process in the spring. Seeing the flow now (when the pump is working, lol) tells me that ours was also very underpowered until recently.
Thanks - I'll check this out!Highly recommend using this between your vacuum hose and your port in the side of the pool. It will catch rocks and sticks as well as leaves:
Hayward W530