Acmfl, I will trade you 100gallons of my 78 degree water for 100gallons of your 95 degree water... It has been a strange summer here in Alabama this year. Usually my pool temp is sitting at about 85, and pretty much steady by now!
My water is almost 100 degrees!
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I think you might want to check your thermometer. There is no way your water is 100°. The water will tend to be near the average of your high and low air temperatures. And certainly is unlikely to ever be higher than your high air temperature.
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I was thinking that too, with us at 115 last week my pool only got up to 90. But that is an above ground pool and maybe they hold and transfer heat differently than inground.
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I forgot to add, if my return is not threaded is there any way to put one of those fountains in or can a threaded return be installed pretty easily? The contractor that replastered our pool said he was going to put that in the pool when he replastered last month but I guess he forgot about that part of the job and I diddnt notice until after I had paid these clowns.
Well it's possible, one of my neighbors with an inground pool suggested I try a different thermometer. I know that it was uncomfortably hot at the 100 reading and much better at 95. But it may be off. The above ground pool is in solid sun and it definitely heats up faster than my friends with inground pools. I think I will buy a new thermometer anyway.
I second the advice of trying another thermometer, we are in central Florida and 94 is icky, even 90 feels like bath water. I've never seen our pool above 94 no matter how high the temps have been outside.
You were right! My new thermometer came today and the old one was 10 degrees off!
I know, when looking at amazon for a new thermometer I was amazed at the reviews on different thermometers that said they were great, EXCEPT they were off a few degrees! Really? What's the point of a thermometer if it's not accurate? I'm going to worry less about the number on the thermometer and rely on how the water feels. It was good to know that the fountain worked in just 1 night to cool it off to a comfortable swimming temp. We were able to put the vacuum back on the return after just the 1 night running the fountain. I'll just put the fountain back on when the temps rise again.
I was in the pool this morning and swam by our fountain. I was surprised by the temperature difference. Didn't really think about it until the talk about fountains, although ours isn't running yet, still a smaller body of water for heat loss.
I had a friend come over this past weekend. He looked at my pool, The conversation went...
Him: "I thought you used Liquid Chlorine?"
Me: "I do, there is my Stenner Pump, and the barrel of Chlorine."
Him: "Then why do you have a floater for chlorine pucks in your pool?"
At which point, I brought him to the pool, and pulled out the "Floater"... it was my wireless thermometer! I love that thing. I can tell the pool temp without ever having to go out to it, the receiver is in my kitchen.
Him: "I thought you used Liquid Chlorine?"
Me: "I do, there is my Stenner Pump, and the barrel of Chlorine."
Him: "Then why do you have a floater for chlorine pucks in your pool?"
At which point, I brought him to the pool, and pulled out the "Floater"... it was my wireless thermometer! I love that thing. I can tell the pool temp without ever having to go out to it, the receiver is in my kitchen.