IceShadow’s pool thread 2022

[Newdude]

Judging from the yellow dust on my car, the end of season pollen/crud is upon us up north.

It might get a little hazier but it's not your pools fault if it does.

Right now that's about as good as you can get unless there is zero wind or rain for several days of 24/7 filtering.

 

[IceShadow]

Judging from the yellow dust on my car, the end of season pollen/crud is upon us up north.

It might get a little hazier but it's not your pools fault if it does.

Right now that's about as good as you can get unless there is zero wind or rain for several days of 24/7 filtering.

It’s been pretty empty in the skimmer and robot lately. Calm before the leaf falling storm.

 

[wireform]

We have leaves dropping already which I think is due to the drought and one of my pools has a new betta which is working overtime now.

 

[IceShadow]

Man these pucks take forever to dissolve

 

[kimkats]

The do for sure! One thing I did was use 2 pvc poles to V it out from right in front of the return without touching the liner. I will be putting a tab tube in my next set up just for using tablets when wanted/needed.

 

[IceShadow]

…is it a problem if water goes up to the bead at the top of the liner? It’s pouring and it’s almost above the top of the skimmer plate. I want to wait to drain because the water goes to my neighbor’s yard and it’s probably already soaking in his house…..

 

[kimkats]

It could get behind the liner aka between the liner and wall

 

[IceShadow]

Ugh. Sure hope my neighbors don’t flood out.

 

[kimkats]

Is there no way to direct the water to the side yard towards the road?

 

[IceShadow]

Is there no way to direct the water to the side yard towards the road?

Not without breaking out a submersible pump and setting up a hose to go toward the road, in a downpour. My waste pipe goes where it is going.

I do want to direct the waste pipe into our downspout since that goes to the storm sewer anyway but that's not a project I've done yet.

 

[IceShadow]

Temps have been chilly here. No warm weather in sight - spent $450 in gas heating the pool in August. Gave up and turned it off. Pool is down to low 60s - probably gonna close this weekend.

Gonna try the Aahsome winterizing stuff instead of polyquat this year. See if it opens any cleaner.

 

[IceShadow]

I do wonder if anyone has ever tried lowering the water and then putting a solar cover on under the mesh safety cover. Seems like it might catch the junk and shade out algae a bit better. But might also destroy the solar cover when ice forms. Hmm…

 

[wireform]

Ice
Not sure what the gain is pretty sure it won't be usable next season. Besides even if it let the junk stay on top how you ever getting it off before it gets into the water.

 

[IceShadow]

My main thinking was that my chlorine seems to stay higher for longer when the solar cover is on. So if it sat on top of the water underneath the mesh cover, the chlorine might stay higher if I raised it to slam level prior to closing. It might also cut down on the amount of light algae could use to grow in the water.

The crud on top would probably end up in the pool, that’s true. I could try to get it out by putting a hose past the cover at one edge to raise it up in the spring, but realistically, it’ll all dump into the pool anyway when I remove the cover, even if it’s high enough to remove easily.

It would probably end up destroying the cover, though, and the water and junk on top that does get sunlight through the mesh cover would probably become an algae farm in the spring anyway. So I don’t think it would end up gaining me much and may end up losing the cover in the process.

 

[Newdude]

I think the top of it would be an algae farm with whatever light gets through the cover. Then with each raindrop, it would wash into the pool.

The safety cover does however make an awesome place to dry the solar cover before you store it. It stays clean, unlike drying it in the yard.

 

[JoeSelf]

How about a tarp over the safety cover until stuff stops falling and the water is colder?

 

[IceShadow]

Time to scrub the safety cover

 

[IceShadow]

How about a tarp over the safety cover until stuff stops falling and the water is colder?

Possibly but I like mesh covers because it lets water through. That would kinda defeat the mesh benefit of not having water accumulate on it.

 

[kimkats]

Purrfect use of the driveway! What pretty neighborhood you live in!

 

[IceShadow]

Pool draining.