What did you do to your pool today?

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jdsaengine said:
next year I'm buying my own cyclone and doing it myself.
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When it's about time, post up relevant pics end to end of the plumbing / valves / equipment and we'll help hatch a plan. We help many through their first rodeo every fall / spring. :)
 
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I soft closed my pool. It's a good thing since there is a fall blooming native shrub (don't know name) that is putting out large quantities of puffy seeds that float in the wind. The water temperature is 70F. Let's see how long it takes to get to 60F.
 
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I vac'd and covered the pool and got the dog fence up on Saturday and today I blew the pipes and dismantled the equipment pad. 2024 is in the books for me. :(

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It was crazy sweating in shorts and a tshirt well into November but it looks like it's finally getting cool tomorrow and staying that way. We have one day at 60 left and the rest are 50s or lower.
 
Not today, but yesterday. Added 80 lbs of salt and some more CYA to bring the levels up after the 11+ inches of rain we have had over the past week. Water temps still in the 60's and SWCG will still make chlorine if it's happy, so went ahead and spent that $15 to keep it going for a couple more weeks until water temps get too low.

Tonight made a pump lid with a hose fitting so I can more easily blow down my water features to winterize them. Hope to get the winterizing taken care of next weekend.

--Jeff
 
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dereksanders said:
Your buddy is looking forlorn with the closing
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They are both torn. They're sad but it's also a new area to claim and protect so they fight over who's in charge of the new area. I have no doubts that if we let the cat outside, he'd jump the fence and it would then be his. :ROFLMAO:
 
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I turned my equipment off a few days ago since it was sucking air after my last cover pumping.
Decided to not top off & just let it ride.
Been maintaining slam level for a while under the cover so should be fine for the next few days until it turns consistently cooler. This fall has been very summery with just a dash of fall mixed in.
I would usually be fully winterized by now. Probably get to it in the next week or so.
 
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Not quite the pool (it has been closed for about a month now) but changed the hot tub water this last weekend.

That *should* get me though the colder months, where draining and cleaning the tub is really unpleasant.

Now I get to play the pH / TA dance for the next 10 to 14 days. I did order a pound of Boric Acid Powder, so we will see how that goes once the pH stablizies.
 
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@phonedave,
I Did my tub about 2 weeks ago. I generally do it in fall & spring either right before or right after fiddling with open/close of the pool in pleasant weather as you mentioned. The worst part for me is waiting on the dichlor adds to raise the cya before redeploying my swcg & going back to easy street.
Now if it will just cool off around here so I can get some good long soaks in!
 
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@phonedave,
I Did my tub about 2 weeks ago. I generally do it in fall & spring either right before or right after fiddling with open/close of the pool in pleasant weather as you mentioned. The worst part for me is waiting on the dichlor adds to raise the cya before redeploying my swcg & going back to easy street.
Now if it will just cool off around here so I can get some good long soaks in!
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I "super shock" mine when I change the water - in other words I add a lot of dichlor (like 1.5 oz). It has been less than a week and my CYA is at 40. I don't use a SWGC in my hot tub, so that is not really an issue, but I like to get back to bleach as soon as I can. For me it is the TA/pH game that takes a while. Measuring pH daily, if not more, and adding 1-2 ounces of acid each time.

I guess the good news is that we are not using the tub that much right now. All of our kids are out of the house now (on their own, or at college) and we have a new puppy. We feel guilty crating him just to go in the hot tub, and we usually hot tub together. He is almost at the stage where we can let him loose in the backyard while we soak and he should be OK, and not require me to get out of the hot tub and stop him from eating rocks, or some other such mischief. it is in the 30's F here right now - great soaking weather (although it reeks of smoke from all of the wildfires going on around here right now).
 
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Awww 🥰
He’ll be drinking hot tub water in no time lol 😂
Mine sneaks & does it still at 5 yrs old! Otherwise she just lays there right beside the tub all lazy like - same with the pool.
she wants to be with you all the time. She has a touch of codependency. Should’ve named her Shadow.
 
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Awww 🥰
He’ll be drinking hot tub water in no time lol 😂
Mine sneaks & does it still at 5 yrs old! Otherwise she just lays there right beside the tub all lazy like - same with the pool.
she wants to be with you all the time. She has a touch of codependency. Should’ve named her Shadow.
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We were spoiled by our last dog. He was just naturally well behaved. About the only thing he ever did was occasionally dig under one certain bush where he liked to lay down, and if you left food near the edge of the table or counter it would disappear. He never jumped up on counters, but if he could cruse by and grab it, it was fair game. Seeing as he was 100lbs, counters were within cruising altitude. We still tell the story of him swallowing a whole stick of butter without chewing. He was also, as my one daughter put it "a very durable dog". A stick of butter might have cause digestion issues for any other dog, but not this one.

Anyway, I am kind of concerned about our new dog drinking pool / hot tub water. I plan on starting to use borates in both. Out new dog is part lab, and has already started to display a love for water. I have a feeling he is going to want to be in and around the pool next season (our old dog wanted nothing to do with the pool, unless it was frozen, then he liked to lay on the ice).
 
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phonedave said:
Anyway, I am kind of concerned about our new dog drinking pool / hot tub water. I plan on starting to use borates in both.
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Per the Wiki, pool levels are entirely safe :

Borates have in the past had a reputation for being unsafe for both humans and pets, mostly dogs. While very high levels can pose some risks TFP Suggested Levels are safe for both. A 100 pound dog would need to drink 8 liters (over 8 quarts) of 50 ppm borate pool water every day just to be at the No Observed Adverse Effect Limit (NOAEL). The level seen for first symptoms is 3 times higher than this amount. And this is literally drinking every day since borates are excreted from the body and do not accumulate so the daily intake level where problems would occur is that which is higher than the rate at which the body flushes out borates.
 
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Nothing. I've been waiting for the water to hit 60F. For several weeks, the water temperature has been stuck at 70F. Finally we got over an inch of cold rain last week after weeks of no rain. The temperature dropped to 62F. We had some more rain today and temperatures are supposed to drop to mid 30s at night and 50s during the day. I'm hoping by Sunday the pool gets below 60F so I can close.
 
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