Hi hikernut,

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If you decide to set up the shade, I'll be interested in how it works for you. I'm in Louisiana with full sun on my pool all day, and we have the same "hot tub" effect that you get--toward late July/early August, it often gets too hot to swim!! So far we combat that by running the pump with a fountain at night, and running tap water through the slide during most swimming sessions, which substantially cools the water, but I'm lucky in that water from my tap is almost perfect chemically, so it doesn't affect my pool chemistry at all. If a shade of some sort would make a huge difference, then I might be interested, as well. If you go that route, make sure and let us know how it works!!