It’s been a while so thought I’d update.
2022 was great with the pool. The heat pump worked well and we had good swimming temps from mid May until mid September.
When we got the pool out of storage there were a couple of small pin sized holes where it had folded. I patched these in freezing cold water. I also installed the skimmer following the many examples in the forums. This helped with reducing the amount of manual work I needed to do.
I did have an algae outbreak when I was on holiday and my neighbor who was looking after the pool didn’t know what to do. I’d taught them how to measure FC and add chlorine, I got them to bring it to SLAM level once they mentioned the cloudyness but was pretty bleak when I got back. It took just over a week of SLAM to clear again. I’ve got a sand filter so not a surprise.
Given the holes from over winter storage we decided to leave it up over the winter. So far looking ok. I have dumped a bunch of chlorine into the pool last week and used a sump pump to circulate as I’ve disconnected all my pipe work for winter. Another few weeks and I’ll put it all back together so that I can chlorinate properly as the temps increase.
Next steps are looking at a more semi permanent pool. I’m thinking about a wooden sided pool that I’ve seen as I need a rectangular shape based on my garden size and the metal sided ones are nearly all round (for good physics reasons).
