Hi folks!
I have recently inherited a very nice in ground pool from my wife's grand dad. We're located in South Carolina for reference.
It's 30,000 gallons, in ground with a liner. Your typical rectangular shallow on one end, deep end on the other. It uses a 3/4 HP Hayward pump.
My wife grew up with the pool, but didn't do much in the way of maintaining it. We've kept it up the last two seasons. I never knew much about pools, and we've more or less just followed instructions from her granddad. We call him "Popi" and I'll refer to him as that from now on to save typing granddad so much. Lol
We've really been very fortunate. It hasn't been difficult to maintain. We've had nice clear comfortable water each season, and honestly I'm amazed at that. We did accidentally leave the pump on backwash or pump to waste last year overnight and completely drained it...?.
I stumbled across this forum because it has a Frog system (5400). I've always thought it odd we sort of have a hybrid type of way to maintain the pool with this system, but again we were just following instructions. Popi has run this pool successfully for 30 years, so why argue right?? We would take a sample to the pool store when it was time to open in spring, and they would give us the chemicals to get the pool right. We'd go through the cycles they told us to and get it right, then put a fresh mineral pack in the Frog, then administer the one of the algae controlling packs (green bottle I forget the name) but then the rest of the season we always just operated it with test strips in a more traditional manner.
We would apply shock, stabilizer, chlorine tablets as needed according to our test strips. Never have known much about what I'm (we're) doing, just dumping things in according to the instructions on the packaging and in accordance with the test strips.
When we opened this year, the lady at the pool store told my wife honestly she wouldn't fool with the frog system at all any longer, not to even mention we have a frog system in the future when we take samples in.
I was doing a little research on the frog system yesterday vs traditional maintenance and ran across this forum.
I see you guys are in agreeance on no to the frog system! I'm a okay with that. I also see that you guys talk about testing every day. Shoot we've probably on average only tested 3 times a week. I'm sort of amazed that we've been able to keep the pool in such good shape with relatively little work. We haven't had to shock it all that much. Once we get it right in the spring just some chlorine and some stabilizer here and there.
I decided to join because, in the frog discussion I ran across last night, y'all kept mentioning CYA, and I had no idea what you were talking about. So I googled that, and sort of went down a rabbit hole on Google proving to me that I don't know anywhere near as much as I thought I did.
We have just built a house on our land beside the pool that we moved into in February. I now want to learn more about the ins and the outs of pool care so that I really understand what and why is going on and what we're doing. Not just blindly following the orders from Popi and the pool store.
Thank you all for your time to read my drivel!
I have recently inherited a very nice in ground pool from my wife's grand dad. We're located in South Carolina for reference.
It's 30,000 gallons, in ground with a liner. Your typical rectangular shallow on one end, deep end on the other. It uses a 3/4 HP Hayward pump.
My wife grew up with the pool, but didn't do much in the way of maintaining it. We've kept it up the last two seasons. I never knew much about pools, and we've more or less just followed instructions from her granddad. We call him "Popi" and I'll refer to him as that from now on to save typing granddad so much. Lol
We've really been very fortunate. It hasn't been difficult to maintain. We've had nice clear comfortable water each season, and honestly I'm amazed at that. We did accidentally leave the pump on backwash or pump to waste last year overnight and completely drained it...?.
I stumbled across this forum because it has a Frog system (5400). I've always thought it odd we sort of have a hybrid type of way to maintain the pool with this system, but again we were just following instructions. Popi has run this pool successfully for 30 years, so why argue right?? We would take a sample to the pool store when it was time to open in spring, and they would give us the chemicals to get the pool right. We'd go through the cycles they told us to and get it right, then put a fresh mineral pack in the Frog, then administer the one of the algae controlling packs (green bottle I forget the name) but then the rest of the season we always just operated it with test strips in a more traditional manner.
We would apply shock, stabilizer, chlorine tablets as needed according to our test strips. Never have known much about what I'm (we're) doing, just dumping things in according to the instructions on the packaging and in accordance with the test strips.
When we opened this year, the lady at the pool store told my wife honestly she wouldn't fool with the frog system at all any longer, not to even mention we have a frog system in the future when we take samples in.
I was doing a little research on the frog system yesterday vs traditional maintenance and ran across this forum.
I see you guys are in agreeance on no to the frog system! I'm a okay with that. I also see that you guys talk about testing every day. Shoot we've probably on average only tested 3 times a week. I'm sort of amazed that we've been able to keep the pool in such good shape with relatively little work. We haven't had to shock it all that much. Once we get it right in the spring just some chlorine and some stabilizer here and there.
I decided to join because, in the frog discussion I ran across last night, y'all kept mentioning CYA, and I had no idea what you were talking about. So I googled that, and sort of went down a rabbit hole on Google proving to me that I don't know anywhere near as much as I thought I did.
We have just built a house on our land beside the pool that we moved into in February. I now want to learn more about the ins and the outs of pool care so that I really understand what and why is going on and what we're doing. Not just blindly following the orders from Popi and the pool store.
Thank you all for your time to read my drivel!
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