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There are ways to make them last but I see your point . . . pressure wash versus sanding and refinishing on a regular basis.
What did you do to your pool today?
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Spent hour and a half netting all the helicopter seeds after last nights storm
My poor beta was filled and hiding in a corner of the pool
A plus side after 6 days I can see my main drain cover, this is the longest slam I have ever had to do
My poor beta was filled and hiding in a corner of the pool
A plus side after 6 days I can see my main drain cover, this is the longest slam I have ever had to do
- Jun 7, 2024
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Drained about 3" of water from the pool today. A series of rain storms had raised the water level to the top of the skimmer. The chemical level have all decreased a little bit. Nothing real urgent needs to be taken care of.
Right now I'm having persistently high FC levels. I keep lowering the output yet the FC is still rising. I lowered the output from 40 to 20 a little over a week ago and now I lowered it to 10% since FC went from 11 to 12.5 ppm in the last week. I'd like to see it at around 6 ppm. I may shut down the SWG for a few days.
Right now I'm having persistently high FC levels. I keep lowering the output yet the FC is still rising. I lowered the output from 40 to 20 a little over a week ago and now I lowered it to 10% since FC went from 11 to 12.5 ppm in the last week. I'd like to see it at around 6 ppm. I may shut down the SWG for a few days.
Turbo1Ton
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Checked chems this morning. Added enough CYA to bring me up to 80. Jumped in to cool off after push mowing the pool yard and again after mowing the outer yard with the tractor. Need air temps to come up just a bit for it to be comfortable to be swimming but it felt good to cool off and rinse off the dust.
--Jeff
--Jeff
Luckily still in slam mode.
Water is just about cleared but had a dust storm come in Friday
Bottom of pool is covered in dirt
Robot doing double duty along with brushing and filter
Water is just about cleared but had a dust storm come in Friday
Bottom of pool is covered in dirt
Robot doing double duty along with brushing and filter
Welp. At 91.2 years apart, its probably your last one. So there is that.
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The Dolphin’s power supply won’t power up on the third use. Submitted the service request. Sigh.
- Nov 12, 2017
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What did I do to in my pool today? Bathed. Ugh.
Woke up today to a clogged sewer line. No toilets working. Couldn't shower. Spent a chunk of the day trying to find a plumber. No luck. Got one scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, finger's crossed.
So what does this have to do with my pool? If I find out that this was caused by losing that stupid pool filter plug down the drain line, I'm going to go ballistic. Now that was, what, like a week ago from yesterday, so a whole week and all the drains were fine. I even took a long shower last night. So the sewer line plugged up between last night and this morning!! And that filter plug is small. It shot down a 2" drain hole, so how could it get stuck in a 3" or 4" main?
Roots? Ugh. I'll know tomorrow. Guy has a sewer cam, so I'll get the whole story, one way or another. House call... snake work... cam charge... any guesses? $1000? And I'm always off by 100%. Uhg. I suppose clearing roots is another separate charge. What, another $1000?!?
TMI ALERT
So back to my pool today. What to do about a shower? I could have just had a swim, but I like to go to sleep ultra clean. So I filled a bucket with hot water, went out to the yard and stood near one of the drains in my deck, and had a nice, uh, bucket bath. Wash cloth, bar of soap, and did the best I could. It was refreshing, I'll give it that, thanks to a decent wind tonight. Then I rinsed as best I could and then jumped into the pool! It was 79°, but felt warm compared to a windy bucket bath. Very refreshing. I didn't see any bubbles on the surface, so whatever soap I didn't get off before I jumped in was minimal.
So yah, this pool is probably going to cost me another grand, maybe two (maybe more?), but at least it was there when I needed it. For a bath. And just in case @Newdude is having any trouble picturing it...
Woke up today to a clogged sewer line. No toilets working. Couldn't shower. Spent a chunk of the day trying to find a plumber. No luck. Got one scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, finger's crossed.
So what does this have to do with my pool? If I find out that this was caused by losing that stupid pool filter plug down the drain line, I'm going to go ballistic. Now that was, what, like a week ago from yesterday, so a whole week and all the drains were fine. I even took a long shower last night. So the sewer line plugged up between last night and this morning!! And that filter plug is small. It shot down a 2" drain hole, so how could it get stuck in a 3" or 4" main?
Roots? Ugh. I'll know tomorrow. Guy has a sewer cam, so I'll get the whole story, one way or another. House call... snake work... cam charge... any guesses? $1000? And I'm always off by 100%. Uhg. I suppose clearing roots is another separate charge. What, another $1000?!?
TMI ALERT
So back to my pool today. What to do about a shower? I could have just had a swim, but I like to go to sleep ultra clean. So I filled a bucket with hot water, went out to the yard and stood near one of the drains in my deck, and had a nice, uh, bucket bath. Wash cloth, bar of soap, and did the best I could. It was refreshing, I'll give it that, thanks to a decent wind tonight. Then I rinsed as best I could and then jumped into the pool! It was 79°, but felt warm compared to a windy bucket bath. Very refreshing. I didn't see any bubbles on the surface, so whatever soap I didn't get off before I jumped in was minimal.
So yah, this pool is probably going to cost me another grand, maybe two (maybe more?), but at least it was there when I needed it. For a bath. And just in case @Newdude is having any trouble picturing it...
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- Jun 7, 2024
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Laughing at the pic, not your predicament. Sorry to hear it. 2 houses ago we had root problems that caused quite a mess.
Thank GOODNESS the pic is showing you taking a ...... shower.
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Summer is here. We've put up our sunshade and umbrella, and I've increased the pump runtime so that the SWCG can keep up with the longer hotter days, AND all the increased use the pool is getting.
Three grandkids (two 4 year olds and a 7 year old) all swimming like fishes. The early swim lessons were a great investment. Like so many Florida kids, our littles won't remember a time when they didn't know how to swim. Now they're snorkeling.
Three grandkids (two 4 year olds and a 7 year old) all swimming like fishes. The early swim lessons were a great investment. Like so many Florida kids, our littles won't remember a time when they didn't know how to swim. Now they're snorkeling.
This year has been particularly prolific for maple seeds. I have collected close to 60 gallons of them so far, and there are still a bunch I have to hand collect (remind me again how I thought having a large pea gravel area under a gigantic maple tree was a good idea)
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I am so glad we did a screen enclosure. Big open pools look beautiful, but too much work for me.
Opened the pool this weekend.
This year the cover was one of the worst ever for me. With the amount of rain we had recently, and the bumper crop of maple seeds this year, it just got away from me and became a huge nasty lake of rotting leaf water. Not to mention my cover pillow, which has been serving admirably for at least 10 years now, gave up the ghost this winter and mostly deflated itself. I use the pillow as a sort of floating dam support when I open the pool in order to move the water over to the sump pump. So that made this opening even more difficult.
But after much pumping, skimming, and other such shenanigans, I opened to clear water with still some residual FC (around 1.5 ppm) and my poor dead cover pillow.
Pulled the filter/ pump out of the shed, added water, tested, and added about 1/2 gallon of acid, 80 oz of CYA, 120 lbs of salt, and a gallon of liquid chlorine just to get things going.
I had to relocate one squatter living under the edge of my cover as well
This year the cover was one of the worst ever for me. With the amount of rain we had recently, and the bumper crop of maple seeds this year, it just got away from me and became a huge nasty lake of rotting leaf water. Not to mention my cover pillow, which has been serving admirably for at least 10 years now, gave up the ghost this winter and mostly deflated itself. I use the pillow as a sort of floating dam support when I open the pool in order to move the water over to the sump pump. So that made this opening even more difficult.
But after much pumping, skimming, and other such shenanigans, I opened to clear water with still some residual FC (around 1.5 ppm) and my poor dead cover pillow.
Pulled the filter/ pump out of the shed, added water, tested, and added about 1/2 gallon of acid, 80 oz of CYA, 120 lbs of salt, and a gallon of liquid chlorine just to get things going.
I had to relocate one squatter living under the edge of my cover as well
- Nov 12, 2017
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Well, not pool related, but this post concludes my lost filter plug saga, and might enlighten others to something I just learned. I'm talking about my sewer backup problem, that I thought might have been caused by the filter plug I flushed. It wasn't. Just an odd coincidence that they happened within the same week.
So the plumber shows up early. Two trucks. Crew of three. My brain goes into ka-ching, ka-ching mode. They find the clean out, in the middle of my pool pad no less. That's my filter, and the smaller cap is the one that sucked down my filter plug. The bigger one, which I've never opened, is appararetly my house's clean-out. Great place for it.
So they fire up the snake. They get three feet down the bigger clean-out and crunch-crack. He hauls out the snake and the part he just broke. This was in my sewer clean-out (yellow end up):
He doesn't know what it is, but guesses it's part of my sewer system check valve. Did anyone know sewer lines have check valves? I sure didn't. Apparently, a good thing to have when your house is close to or lower than street level. Which mine is not. He recommended I get rid of it, which sounds good to me (since it was the reason I had the blockage, not the filter cap). So he proceeds to bust up the flapper, which is still in the sewer pipe and blocking it, with a long pipe. And that was the end of it.
Then he ran the sewer cam all the way to the sewer main. The cam operator moves the screen from my view, and the boss says "Well let him see, he's paying for it." Ka-ching, ka-ching. Turns out my entire sewer line is as clean as it gets. No crud. No roots. No filter plug! Good to go.
So they pack up and I cringe when I ask "how much." $250. I was floored. Extremely reasonable (IMO). Such a relief to have the problem solved, and solved permanently, and to learn my 15-year-old sewer line is in great shape. So worth it!!
So today is a good day. I caught a break. Though I gotta admit, that bucket bath felt so good I may have another... just because I can.
So the plumber shows up early. Two trucks. Crew of three. My brain goes into ka-ching, ka-ching mode. They find the clean out, in the middle of my pool pad no less. That's my filter, and the smaller cap is the one that sucked down my filter plug. The bigger one, which I've never opened, is appararetly my house's clean-out. Great place for it.
So they fire up the snake. They get three feet down the bigger clean-out and crunch-crack. He hauls out the snake and the part he just broke. This was in my sewer clean-out (yellow end up):
He doesn't know what it is, but guesses it's part of my sewer system check valve. Did anyone know sewer lines have check valves? I sure didn't. Apparently, a good thing to have when your house is close to or lower than street level. Which mine is not. He recommended I get rid of it, which sounds good to me (since it was the reason I had the blockage, not the filter cap). So he proceeds to bust up the flapper, which is still in the sewer pipe and blocking it, with a long pipe. And that was the end of it.
Then he ran the sewer cam all the way to the sewer main. The cam operator moves the screen from my view, and the boss says "Well let him see, he's paying for it." Ka-ching, ka-ching. Turns out my entire sewer line is as clean as it gets. No crud. No roots. No filter plug! Good to go.
So they pack up and I cringe when I ask "how much." $250. I was floored. Extremely reasonable (IMO). Such a relief to have the problem solved, and solved permanently, and to learn my 15-year-old sewer line is in great shape. So worth it!!
So today is a good day. I caught a break. Though I gotta admit, that bucket bath felt so good I may have another... just because I can.
Fixed, and you won't wonder about the health of the lines for quite some time ???? Nice.
Did anyone know sewer lines have check valves?
Around here they are common,
and some go as far as putting in an ejector system in their front yard and tie into the main sewer line.
Lots of problems with sewer back ups, luckily my house does not have that problem
Around here they are common,
and some go as far as putting in an ejector system in their front yard and tie into the main sewer line.
Lots of problems with sewer back ups, luckily my house does not have that problem
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We have a company here that advertises main drain clearing for $99 & they say they use the camera. So maybe it won’t be too badWhat did I dotoin my pool today? Bathed. Ugh.
Woke up today to a clogged sewer line. No toilets working. Couldn't shower. Spent a chunk of the day trying to find a plumber. No luck. Got one scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, finger's crossed.
So what does this have to do with my pool? If I find out that this was caused by losing that stupid pool filter plug down the drain line, I'm going to go ballistic. Now that was, what, like a week ago from yesterday, so a whole week and all the drains were fine. I even took a long shower last night. So the sewer line plugged up between last night and this morning!! And that filter plug is small. It shot down a 2" drain hole, so how could it get stuck in a 3" or 4" main?
Roots? Ugh. I'll know tomorrow. Guy has a sewer cam, so I'll get the whole story, one way or another. House call... snake work... cam charge... any guesses? $1000? And I'm always off by 100%. Uhg. I suppose clearing roots is another separate charge. What, another $1000?!?
TMI ALERT
So back to my pool today. What to do about a shower? I could have just had a swim, but I like to go to sleep ultra clean. So I filled a bucket with hot water, went out to the yard and stood near one of the drains in my deck, and had a nice, uh, bucket bath. Wash cloth, bar of soap, and did the best I could. It was refreshing, I'll give it that, thanks to a decent wind tonight. Then I rinsed as best I could and then jumped into the pool! It was 79°, but felt warm compared to a windy bucket bath. Very refreshing. I didn't see any bubbles on the surface, so whatever soap I didn't get off before I jumped in was minimal.
So yah, this pool is probably going to cost me another grand, maybe two (maybe more?), but at least it was there when I needed it. For a bath. And just in case @Newdude is having any trouble picturing it...
Edit: just saw your conclusion post- sounds about right with that cali cost of living conversion. Glad it’s fixed!
Turbo1Ton
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Yup and if I were on a sewer and not septic, I would have one installed. I believe they are code now for my area.
I don't want my own sewage backing up in my house, let alone the entire neighborhood and potentially the rest of the city. Pretty sure Mike Rowe did a dirty jobs where they had to clean out a basement where the city sewer backed up into this person's house.
--Jeff