Hello and CYA @ 240-300

[PoolDoc]

I've never really had a personal pool.

My sons swam in a variety of institutional pools while they were competing, and we had access to others as a family. What we all prefer are 25 - 50 yard pools for SWIMMING, and ocean, lake or stream water for PLAYING. My wife would -- she thinks -- enjoy a pool to puddle in, sort of a summer time 'cool tub', but the rest of us get antsy if there's not something to DO, and she wouldn't enjoy it, if we were all trying to escape. We had an Intex one summer for testing, and none of us really liked it -- because we are all actual swimmers, anything less than 50' feels 'tiny'. My sons glide 15' - 20' from the push off, so in most pools they can only take 1 - 2 strokes before they have to turn.

Also, prime pool time, I've always been working 70 - 90 hours per week, and dragging my family alone. Add in summer league swimming, with 2 meets and 4 practices per week, and USS long course (50m) swimming . . . we had ZERO time for personal swimming till fall.

We've occasionally had access to some pretty exotic home pools, and have enjoyed those when we had the time.

My commercial pool customers? I've run them every which way I could, trying different things to get the best results. Currently, my sole remaining local customer is at CYA = ~95ppm (the inspector will dock 2 pts for 100 ppm) and FC = 7 - 15 ppm (accepting the 2 pt penalty).