Just wait. Yours will soon be a jewel. Then it's party time and we can come over and educate the wife!!!
New User - Doing first drain - What do I need to know?
- Thread starter Smartjack
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OMG!!! She needs it.
Does anyone here watch The Big Bang Theory? Remember the episode where Sheldon finds out his favorite Chinese restaurant closed 4 years ago, and Leonard has been hiding that from him? He had containers from the old restaurant in his trunk, and he put the food from the new restaurant to fool Sheldon all those years.
So, tonight my wife asked me to bring home some Borax. She only needed a little, and didn't know what she was going to do with the rest of it. I told her I could use it with the pool stuff now. She said "are you kidding". I said, well I probably won't need to raise the pH much, so I probably won't need it. She says "good, that stuff is nasty, and I would never want to swim in that". What do you think she is going to say if she sees me pouring Muratic ACID into the pool? She will never want to swim again.
I'm going to have to pull a "Big Bang" move, and save the old bottles. I'll just put Borax into the pH up jugs, Muratic Acid into the pH down jug, and bleach into the pool shock jug. She never even looks at what those old jugs were. Then, after 4 years, I'll tell her what she has been swimming in for all that time.
BattleOfYakima
TFP Guide
Very cute post!!! For safety reasons, best not to transfer or mislabel the MA though.
LOL been there, done that! "Are you pouring that ACID in the pool?????? 
" Why yes dear I am and you are going to swim in it after 30 mins! Could you see your wife and my husband talking about what we do to THEIR pools??? hehe
You can always just change the labels to be safer.
Kim:cat:
" Why yes dear I am and you are going to swim in it after 30 mins! Could you see your wife and my husband talking about what we do to THEIR pools??? hehe You can always just change the labels to be safer.
Kim:cat:
Smartjack,
Just read through all 7 pages of the post and loved it. Keep up the good work and don't forget to add pictures of the final product. Once you get it cleared up to TFP quality, I recommend that you take a break and manually dose the pool for the rest of this season. Take some time to enjoy the pool and do more research on methods of adding chlorine. You may end up deciding that a SWG, Liquidator or Stenner Pump is the best option after learning what your chlorine demand is over the season. Plus, you will probably get better equipment pricing after the pool season is over.
Just my $.02.
Just read through all 7 pages of the post and loved it. Keep up the good work and don't forget to add pictures of the final product. Once you get it cleared up to TFP quality, I recommend that you take a break and manually dose the pool for the rest of this season. Take some time to enjoy the pool and do more research on methods of adding chlorine. You may end up deciding that a SWG, Liquidator or Stenner Pump is the best option after learning what your chlorine demand is over the season. Plus, you will probably get better equipment pricing after the pool season is over.
Just my $.02.
I'm a engineer, and don't do much manually. I automate what I can. I've been doing Home Automation since the 80's.
My new pump actually arrives today. I've calculated that my Polaris ORP system currently dumps 3 ounces of DiChlor every time it fires the solenoid. I could not find a good, low cost pump, with the proper seals to handle bleach, that has a low pump rate. So, the pump I ordered is capable of pumping 6 gallons per minute. Since it will be on for only 10 seconds, that will still be too much. So, I will just put a valve on, and slow it down.
I'll probably do a video of the modification. I will just let the pump add a few ounces of bleach, just like my current system adds a few ounces of DiChlor.
If you're system will dump to large a volume of bleach in at one time you can always dilute it down to a concentration that will be more in Line with what you need. Plus you will get the benefit that bleach degrades slower at lower concentrations.
I hear by declare the following:
-My water replacement a success
-My SLAM complete
-My pool open for the season
-And, this thread closed
I still plan to do a write up of some sort on the sheet method. I'm actually thinking of just doing it as a video, showing all the steps and directions. Then, I will just put that on my YouTube channel, and leave it there. If how to do the sheet method comes up again, users can just supply that link.
-My water replacement a success
-My SLAM complete
-My pool open for the season
-And, this thread closed
I still plan to do a write up of some sort on the sheet method. I'm actually thinking of just doing it as a video, showing all the steps and directions. Then, I will just put that on my YouTube channel, and leave it there. If how to do the sheet method comes up again, users can just supply that link.
BattleOfYakima
TFP Guide
My most sincere congratulations! Please do let us know how the dichlor to liquid conversion goes!
Well done! Just look at that shine :sun: I love the idea of your video! Could be useful for others thinking of the same thing. I would also tell where you bought and what you paid for the tarp and such.
Kim:cat:
Kim:cat:
I work in Naperville, well Warrenville now. Quite the transformation you've made. Very impressive.
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Ha, Pool Tool. Trying to get invited? Pretty nervy, eapecially with the PACKERS avatar????!!!
What say you, Smartjack?
What say you, Smartjack?
My place is 100% a Bears household. Jersey's, plaques, autographed footballs, and even games on DVD. I told my guard dog that a Packers fan wanted to come over and use the pool, and he immediately took his position along side the pool to make sure that does not happen.
So, I will need to run out, and get one of these for Packers fans.
LOL Bruce you fit right in around here!
What is the guard dog's name? A heeler?
Kim:cat:
What is the guard dog's name? A heeler?
Kim:cat:
Hi Kim,
Both of my dogs are rescues. That boy is a Blue Heeler, and was around 3 years old when we rescued him. His name was Levi, so we didn't change it. The other is a Cattle Dog/Australian Shepard mix, and her name is Sgt. Pepper (my daughter is a Beatles fan).
Both of these dogs are so loving to immediate family, and extremely protective of us. They allow no strangers near us, and must be crated when we have guests.
All of that is expected from Bear's fans, I mean with the recent history I would feel that way to if the roles were reversed 
It is a bit of a curse, considering my only packer fan friend that lives near me is imaginary. But we do agree on a lot of things, most of the time.
Well beyond having the nicest pool in town now (not including my blow up) you also have the world's largest slip and slide tarp!
It is a bit of a curse, considering my only packer fan friend that lives near me is imaginary. But we do agree on a lot of things, most of the time. Well beyond having the nicest pool in town now (not including my blow up) you also have the world's largest slip and slide tarp!
Yeah, I went with buying the tarp, because I felt I could reuse it in the future, if I ever needed to do another drain. But, now that I have adopted the BBB method, I don't see why I will ever need to drain again. My pool numbers are SOOO stable now, and with nobody in the pool yet, the FC levels have barely dropped. That pool is 27,000 gallons, and I completed a SLAM with only 6 gallons of LC. My SLAM finished with my FC at 20, and a week later it is still over 15. But, with 80's expected by Monday, I turned the heater on, and the water will go from 64 to 85 overnight.
Anyway, back to the tarp. Now that I feel I will never need to drain the pool again, I'm wishing that I would have looked for a place that rents tarps, instead of buying one. I'm sure that rental places, or tent place, would have rented one for less than I paid for one. I'll probably end up selling it on Craig's list, or eBay.