Long time google-visitor, first time poster... This may have been covered here before but I haven't found it...
My autocover tore badly over the winter, along about 90% of its length, to the point where that whole edge is just hanging free, 4 feet under the water. My pool maintenance guy ordered a new one a couple weeks ago, but as of now he hasn't been able to estimate how long it would take to get in. At the time the crew measured for the new cover they said they wouldn't want to open the pool before the cover came in, though at the time they thought the cover would be in by now. Meanwhile, the pool is turning into 100% swamp and the cover isn't acting as a cover at all--everything that falls "on top" is in the pool.
I'm going to reach out to my vendor again tomorrow, but for now, my question is: what would everyone here recommend I should do if it turns out it's going to be another month or more before the cover comes in? Should I ask them to cut off the cover for now and insist on having the pool opened so the water doesn't get past the point of no return? If there is such a thing--I've had this pool for 7 years and the worst we had before was maybe 2 weeks' worth of downtime when the heater died, and the water never got anything like this bad. But we're starting to worry it's going to overwhelm our system's ability to chlorinate and filter the algae, etc, out, if we have to wait too much longer. If you think having the filter running without a cover would be even worse than what's happening now: should I be dumping chlorinator fluid in there to try to slow the decline into swamp? Any other ideas?
My autocover tore badly over the winter, along about 90% of its length, to the point where that whole edge is just hanging free, 4 feet under the water. My pool maintenance guy ordered a new one a couple weeks ago, but as of now he hasn't been able to estimate how long it would take to get in. At the time the crew measured for the new cover they said they wouldn't want to open the pool before the cover came in, though at the time they thought the cover would be in by now. Meanwhile, the pool is turning into 100% swamp and the cover isn't acting as a cover at all--everything that falls "on top" is in the pool.
I'm going to reach out to my vendor again tomorrow, but for now, my question is: what would everyone here recommend I should do if it turns out it's going to be another month or more before the cover comes in? Should I ask them to cut off the cover for now and insist on having the pool opened so the water doesn't get past the point of no return? If there is such a thing--I've had this pool for 7 years and the worst we had before was maybe 2 weeks' worth of downtime when the heater died, and the water never got anything like this bad. But we're starting to worry it's going to overwhelm our system's ability to chlorinate and filter the algae, etc, out, if we have to wait too much longer. If you think having the filter running without a cover would be even worse than what's happening now: should I be dumping chlorinator fluid in there to try to slow the decline into swamp? Any other ideas?
