What did you do to your pool today?
- Thread starter Patrick_B
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Woody... Will you please come vac my pool? I don't feel well enough to do it. Maybe bring Patrick n we can have a nice cold drink while we watch you.
ya' know?.............I'm.... "ALMOST".........tempted!
Water has been so hot, think I'll run around the water line with some deodorant. Doesn't Arm & Hammer make one with baking soda? I wanna be TFP correct of course.
Haha! You all are quite the jokesters!
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I scooped out 2 small leaves this monring and also a giant hornet killer ant (aka cow killer) that was swiming around on top. I wish I had a pic of the ant. The thing was huge!
I have a life proof case for my iPad. The days that I'm lucky enough to work from home, I do it on a float.
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n240sxguy
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I did some troubleshooting on my light a couple days ago. If the breaker for my pump is on, the gfci breaker for the light trips. I found this awfulness underground next to my pad.
That's how worthless my pool builder is. They can't even glue electrical conduit together. If I was the one who had it built, they would've had a much different experience. The line leaving my breaker box is 14ga romex. The wires hooked to the light cord at the pad is red and black, so something is spliced somewhere. I've gotta do a little digging to see if I can find the T in the conduit where it is spliced.
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That's how worthless my pool builder is. They can't even glue electrical conduit together. If I was the one who had it built, they would've had a much different experience. The line leaving my breaker box is 14ga romex. The wires hooked to the light cord at the pad is red and black, so something is spliced somewhere. I've gotta do a little digging to see if I can find the T in the conduit where it is spliced.
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Today, I basked in the glory of the SWG running as it should and my pool being given clear again!
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for the first time in two weeks, I actually got in the pool! Vacuumed, tested, added chlorine.
for the first time in two weeks, I actually got in the pool! Vacuumed, tested, added chlorine.
- May 22, 2013
- 2,796
- Pool Size
- 12000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Took a chainsaw to a pine tree and cut it back away from overhanging the pool. Hopefully next spring I'll have fewer needles to contend with on the walk, the cover and in the pool and baskets.
Not much here, but watching my FC demand go up from hotter temps and relentless Sunlight.
Loving it!
Loving it!
Started teaching my 17 year old son the TFP method so I can go out of town for 8 days and he can take care of the pool. God help me!
My kids and their cousins swam yesterday. Found out an ultraframe can survive a "wave pool", as my son took an inner tube and jumped up and down to make waves. I was having a heart attack, but the younger kids loved the 2' waves, lol. Even heard a shout of "this is better than the water park!".
Which is worse? Leaving the 17 yr old IN CHARGE OF the pool or leaving the 17 yr old WITH a pool. LOL
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Kim
well, my wife will still be there, but she does not want to deal with the chemistry, so I am teaching him - trying to keep it nice and simple - just test FC daily, add liquid as necessary and back flush the DE filter if needed - keep FC between 5 and 15 (for my CYA of 40) - a big range, but I would prefer to be on the high side and give him room to be conservative while I am gone - with the greatly variable and unscheduled bather load (including peeing children), I have seen FC drops during the day from 2 to 8 over the last couple weeks
I still remember my wife explaining how taking care of the pool was little or no work (according to her friends with pools...and husbands doing the maintenance) when she was selling me on the idea of a pool - I guess she was right - for her, anyway