What did you do to your pool today?

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After adding bleach, I pulled the solar covers off, leaf raked and brushed, checked and cleared the skimmer basket filter, tried to adjust the auto-fill and broke it, then learned the the only way to stop it from filling was to shut off the water to the house, but the valve to do that is broken and won't close. So it was a quick run to Ace Hardware, then installed a new float valve, fooled with that for a half hour trying to get it so it wasn't leaking. Next had to run the filter to dump out the extra water that the broken autofill dumped in, and finally got the water level down to an acceptable level. Put the covers back on and called it a day.
 
Even though it's early to open in PA, I started working on it, since if didn't properly close it. I wanted to put the solar cover on so it might warm it enough for me to get in and give it a good cleaning. I hooked up the pump/filter, scooped leaves, and brushed what I could reach. I then added some chlorine. I also put the solar caps back on. It was 80 degrees here today!(water 62)
 
Well, I cant take the cover off yet due to the vast amount of catkins that will be falling out of the Oak trees surrounding my pool in the next few weeks. SO, I decided to get a handle on things, and I ran a gallon of bleach through my little setup I made. I have to say I am a little proud of myself. I got a gallon of bleach in the pool, with the cover on, without messing anything up. The water wasn't really that bad, but the temps will be up a little this week, and I want to make SLAM as short as possible this time. I am aiming for 1 week from the time I take the cover off till the time I throw my son off of the diving board to make sure it is warm enough for me! Judging from the look of the water, that isn't going to be an issue. I am going to test it this week sometime IF the catkins start falling.
 
Put on a full court press to clean up the mess that 11 inches of rain created last night. Mostly dirt on the bottom of the pool. Fished out some leaves, and now have the Dolphin doing its work. I'll see what kind of damage to my chemistry a little later.
 
I wanted to open this past weekend and couldn't find where my pool closing company put my plugs, sigh. I thought I looked everywhere... heard back from the pool guy today and apparently they are in the pump basket, double sigh.

Hoping to get the water circulating and chlorinated tonight and praying that I don't have ammonia. I always have ammonia and wish I could market my CYA gobbling bacteria.

I'm leaving the cover on because a) middle aged, petite female is no match for my massive cover, and b) I'm removing trees that overhang the pool in the next week or so... I could rehab my ugly ancient pool for the cost of tree removal $$$$$ or buy a nice new car, but it must be done first.

Mature tulip/yellow poplars should never be put near a pool. I guess the old owners didn't realize how big the 20 trees would get after 40 years of growth.
 
Ohhhhhh share a before and after pic of the trees and area!

Don'tfillitin (what IS your real name??) you smart thing you! When I talk my hubby in to doing something like that I am going to get you to talk me through it!

LOVE the kids swimming and using the test kid for the water temp LOL

KIM
 

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My name is Gary, but I go by Vick. Don't ask, LONG story lol! Yeah, there HAS to be a test dummy! It is pretty simple, but if he wants to talk to me, I would be glad to call him and talk to him about it. Just being able to add bleach right now with the cover still on has made it worth the money spent imho. I wish I could make it push out the bleach a little faster, but Im fine. It took about 10 minutes for it to run through last night. I filled, turned on the water, walked away to put the grille up (smoked sausage and burgers) and came back to turn it off. No bleaching my clothes, not almost falling in due to adult beverages and crouching at pools edge. It was a WIN for me!
 
Ran the full battery of tests as I've been floating pucks for the last few weeks to raise the CYA level. Everything is spot on! Still several weeks from swimming but the water has really warmed up the last few days. the weather has been beautiful in southern ohio.
 
Scooped a dead baby bird and dead frog out of the pool (guess from the storms - it was a first), added extra bleach for all the crud that ended up in the pool and ran my robot 3 times to get everything and watched my temp go from 75 to 71 again. #NoMoreRain
 
Let my cl2 drift down to 1.5 and added some muriatic acid to drop the ph, then did the Ascorbic acid treatment. Added about 3 lbs of Ascorbic acid, then later added 3.5 quarts of metal magic. Omg my pool liner is blue! Not yellowish brown!


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Only got today and tomorrow with high enough temps... Taking advantage lol


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My granddaughter n I played with the hose as we filled the pool up today. She was letting the boxer drink from the hose n I told her to get a drink n she tried lapping the water up like the dog did. :mrgreen: She gave me a good laugh!
 
Started rebalancing after my AA treatment. Added 2 bags of salt, borax, baking soda, and a gallon of bleach. I got rid of some of my stains last year with vitamin c tablets in a sock and thought it looked pretty good. After this AA treatment my wife and I both were like omg this think looks amazing! I lowered the ph, added the AA, then put in 3.5 quarts of metal magic. This thing has never looked this good! The most beautiful blue I've ever seen!


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