New House, Old Pool

[almoagnadna]

Thank you! I'm crossing my fingers that it's 100% frog-free

When getting the pool inspection, should I plan on having the guy open the pool cover? It sounds like that could make the situation underneath worse, but is not knowing my worst enemy? I did also find out that the pool cover is new as of last year as well. It looks sort of similar to this one, but smaller and maybe more elastic. It's a small rectangular one, with a longer piece at one end for the stairs: http://www.pooltospaservices.com/wp-...ool-cover2.jpg

[PoolDoc]

It's a spring tightened MESH cover?

If so, your pool underneath is will be free of leaves and sticks, but likely very green. I'd start pouring plain 6% bleach in, about 5 gallons per 10K gallons of pool water. You can pour it THROUGH the cover, and then rinse the cover off with a hose. Don't pour it all in one spot.

By the way, you can't really do a "pool inspection" on a closed, cloudy, non-operating pool. If there's any way to do so, I'd make the real-estate closing conditional on having the pool inspected AFTER it has been opened -- let the current owner get it into condition so your inspector can ACTUALLY check it out.