What did you do to your pool today?

[Homebrewale]

And this year I've been upping my watering schedule to see if I can keep my garden alive this summer. It's been brutalized the last two, due to the heat. I shudder to think what the increased watering schedule and TWO overnight "oopsies" is going to cost me...

Tomatoes at $10 per pound.

 

[Dirk]

Tomatoes at $10 per pound.

You got it down to ten!?! I’m still up around fifty… PER TOMATO! (Counting water, fertilizer, daily irrigation labor, raised bed labor and materials, potting soil, and squirrel-proofing.) Did I mention? Those were cherry tomatoes!!

 

[jark87]

Turned off the chiller so the water will warm up for our 9 month old granddaughter. And added this. Happy 4th!

 

[kellyfair]

Finally got a few storm-free hours to hang out with Ms. Mingo and contemplate murdering my neighbor’s foliage in the dead of night.

 

[jark87]

Finally got a few storm-free hours to hang out with Ms. Mingo and contemplate murdering my neighbor’s foliage in the dead of night.

I used to think that about our backyard neighbors’ foliage. Until they sold the house and the new owners cut it down. We could see right into their living room, so I know they could see into ours. Ended up building some privacy screens. Don’t tell my HOA!

 

[Wolfepack88]

We had a wet early spring and my CYA appeared to hold well before disappearing suddenly. I chalked it up to the logarithmic scale making losing some being unnoticeable until I lost alot.

You'll know its time when you see the extra FC loss.

What eats CYA up? I have my pool covered most of the time unless swimming or airing out so how does CYA go away?

 

[jark87]

What eats CYA up? I have my pool covered most of the time unless swimming or airing out so how does CYA go away?

I’ll submit that CYA never changes. But that *$#*%! dot!

 

[JamesW]

Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple in Maine a killer ocean view. Residents wonder, at what cost?

There was one thing missing when a wealthy Missouri couple purchased their oceanfront home overlooking Camden Harbor in Maine: the million-dollar view.

www.latimes.com

 

[Mdragger88]

What eats CYA up? I have my pool covered most of the time unless swimming or airing out so how does CYA go away?

Hotter water (90+) tends to have higher rates of cya degradation

 

[Newdude]

What eats CYA up?

Nothing lowers it substantially for us but rain overflow because we dont have the extreme temps that some areas do. Maybe the water hits the high 80s for a week or three and then its cooler again. IMO the subjectivity of the test doesn't show the rain dilution in real time until enough has been lost to register on the

$#*%! dot!

Many times it looks the same, looks the same, looks the same, ok I KNOW I've drained a foot of overflow, looks the same, looks the same, minus 20. *record scratch*

 

[Katodude]

Bring that CYA to my pool. I will make it disappear. Pool got to 93.8 yesterday. Thats a record for this year. I think last years record was 94.5. We might get there today. Pool is already 91.

 

[Dirk]

Gunna be 114° today, so I snuck out for a hour of clean up this morning, while there was still shade in the yard. More this evening when it cools off again. It was hot yesterday, but I couldn't swim, because the water quickly got too disgusting for my taste. I went in to the party at FC 9, checked it late afternoon at FC 7, so I bumped it back up to nine. But by the end of the night, when I put the vac back in after guests left, I could barely see the vac head at 7'. I can see it now, but the water is not clear.

I didn't even test yet. I turned on the pump and poured in about 1/3 gallon of chlorine. I realize now I should have started the pump last night and poured in a gallon. It'd probably be fine this morning. Oh, well. Every party I learn something new for the next one. For example:

I remembered to put a little 4th of July sticker on my glass slider, so people wouldn't walk through it. But then it cooled off in the evening so I opened the glass and closed the screen slider. Which somebody promptly walked through!! Mental note: two signs! One for the glass, the other for the screen!!

That all said, the party was a HUGE success. Everybody had a great time and loved the pool. The food was amazing (they ate all my chicken, dogs and burgers). The night ended with fireworks, and everybody left around 10 with lots of thank yous and appreciation. That made it all worth it.

I explained to a few people last night that I personally barely swim in my pool more than I work on it (some seasons). So the only thing that makes it worth having is the enjoyment my friends and family get out of it. So while I mostly worked yesterday (cooking and cleaning), they were really doing me the favor, and I'm already planning next year's!

 

[Dirk]

PS. When I tested in the afternoon, by pH was about 7.6, but I had started the day at about 7.9. What tanked my pH?

 

[phonedave]

I've said that many times! I don't have to winterize, nor do I live in a place where it rains all the time, but adding auto-leveling (filling and overflow) to a build is so cheap, and either or both can later be defeated if not needed, or blown out for the winter, that it just makes no sense not to include it.

The systems are not infallible, and that is often cited as the reason for not wanting one. But that's nothing a good pool cam won't address. The two times my auto-fill was stuck on cost nothing compared to the number of times I would have overflowed my pool if it was left to me to remember to shut off the hose!!

I put a simple overflow on my old pool. I just plumbed a piece of pex into my skimmer basket at the height I wanted my water to stay at. The salt water overflow killed my grass.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Turned off the chiller so the water will warm up for our 9 month old granddaughter. And added this. Happy 4th!

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What do you keep your chiller set at? My wife got in our last night at 88, and I though she was going to jump out of her skin. I actually had it off until earlier in the day when I turned it on. The water temp was 91. I wanted a pool, not a spa

 

[midlifecrisis]

Cleaned my filters, finally. Adjusted the overflow a bit to accommodate my OCD. Took care of the effervescence on the shear wall. First mow after lawn leveling. Fixed the piddly little dripping leak in my plumbing from last year when I installed my SWCG (lest you judge me, I was down for a while with a bad hip until getting it replaced).

 

[jark87]

What do you keep your chiller set at? My wife got in our last night at 88, and I though she was going to jump out of her skin. I actually had it off until earlier in the day when I turned it on. The water temp was 91. I wanted a pool, not a spa

The Glacier doesn’t have a temp control, although I believe some people that have more advanced controllers have attempted it. It works off of evaporation, so it’s really not conducive to running it based on temps like an AC unit. I run mine from 3am - 8pm every day during the summer. That keeps the water temp in the low 80s, which is perfect for me. If we get a super dry spell, it will get down into the mid- to upper-70s. Without the chiller, my water temp gets into the 90s. Not what I want with a pool.

 

[Katodude]

PS. When I tested in the afternoon, by pH was about 7.6, but I had started the day at about 7.9. What tanked my pH?

I am about to post a question like this in the deep end. There is some correlation between pH and adding chlorine and when chlorine does its thing. I just cant figure it out. When I add a gallon of LC it will raise my pH by about .5. Over the next few days it will drift back down. If it drifts back down faster is the chlorine killing more stuff? I think there might be a way to understand what is going on in the pool by understanding this reaction.

 

[Dirk]

I am about to post a question like this in the deep end. There is some correlation between pH and adding chlorine and when chlorine does its thing. I just cant figure it out. When I add a gallon of LC it will raise my pH by about .5. Over the next few days it will drift back down. If it drifts back down faster is the chlorine killing more stuff? I think there might be a way to understand what is going on in the pool by understanding this reaction.

Please link the thread here, or "@Dirk" me in it. My pH dump couldn't be some consequence of me adding 25oz yesterday, could it? My pool had a lot of people in it, all day. Had to be related to that. If anything, you'd think the increased surface activity would raise pH, not lower it...

 

[JamesW]

PS. When I tested in the afternoon, by pH was about 7.6, but I had started the day at about 7.9. What tanked my pH?

My pH dump couldn't be some consequence of me adding 25oz yesterday, could it? My pool had a lot of people in it, all day. Had to be related to that. If anything, you'd think the increased surface activity would raise pH, not lower it...

It is pretty much impossible for the pH to drop on its own.

Something acidic has to be added.

If the FC goes down, the pH can drop.

HOCl + OCl --> O2 + H + 2Cl.

Maybe ammonia from people.

Did you get a lot of CCs?