Any probs w/ filling over night?

[hoffmans]

WHOOOO HOOOO....!!!!!!!

We've got 12" or so of water in there and all looks GRRRREAT!
Now signs of worry!
So Happy!

Ok so can I keep the hose on all night or can I only fill when it is sunny out?


Thank You,
~Hoffmans

[Watermom]

You don't have to only fill when it is sunny out but just be careful. Let me tell you what happened when I filled my original AG pool after installation.

We had the hose taped to the top rail with duct tape while it was filling all afternoon and all evening. All was fine. So we figured it would be fine to continue filling through the night, just getting up once or twice to check on it. But, at some point during the night, the tape came loose and the hose popped out of the pool and was aiming right at the base of the pool. It washed out a big "footprint-sized" area of sand under the liner and we were left with this "footprint" depression that was about 2-3 inches deep. It didn't really hurt anything other than it looked bad and we just told the kids to leave it alone, which they did. All was well for about 5 years. Then, one day when I wasn't home, hubby and mother-in-law were out supervising at the pool with a bunch of cousins swimming and nobody noticed that one of the kids was playing in that area and they popped a really big hole in the liner in this spot. It ended up being way too big to patch. Whenever we got near it to try and see what we could do, the liner just kept splitting. My pool was totally emptied and I had to replace the liner.

After the initial liner was put in, we added a deck. So, when we were filling after the new liner was installed, we kind of wrapped the hose a few times through the spindles of the deck rail so it couldn't come loose. No more duct tape on the top rail!

[hoffmans]

Oh my gosh!
Life is never boring at your house is it? You seem to have lots of interesting life stories to tell :) .
Thanks for the heads up.
~Hoffmans

[Watermom]

NO -- life at my house is never boring! With 3 boys, and 2 golden retrievers, there is alway something going on!!