New Pool & Starting From Scratch!

[aylad]

I'm actually in the Northwest corner of Louisiana. This time of year my pool temp averages around 92-ish if left alone, but this summer has been much hotter and much more dry than usual-- as far as rain goes, we've only had a few sprinkles here and there, but it's been more than 2 months since the last real rain shower. So the air temps this last couple of weeks have been between 105-110, and yesterday was our 32nd day in a row over 100 degrees. Water temp 96, and that's with me running the hose in to top it off from city water for approximately 10 minutes every couple of days.

As far as cooling goes, I sometimes run my pump during the night instead of during the day with a fountain attached, and that has a small cooling effect, depending on the humidity level. The only really effective way to cool it, though, is just to run the water on the slide while the kids are in--which is basically refilling from tap water. It can substantially drop the temp of the pool over a 2 hour swim period.

Janet

[PoolDoc]

Finally posting pictures (trying to work out a better way to handle this in 2012)

Above-ground pool installation, with excavation issues: