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[tado921]

My mom and I both have IG Vinyl pools, mine is slightly larger but roughly the same size. We have been in disagreement over how to maintain them since I found this site and went to the BBB method. She uses a service to come out and clean her pool and adjust the chemistry, and they charge her $45/week...let me repeat...**$45 A WEEK!!** AND she has to buy her own chemicals.

The other day I went over and she had to run to the pool store to get calcium increaser because the pool people told her it was low. I asked her why she had to put calcium in her vinyl pool and she said she didn't know, just that they said so. I told her to ask them what the calcium was for, and she did so. They told her it keeps her liner from getting brittle! Such BS, but she thinks since they are "professionals" they know what they are doing, and I can't convince her otherwise.

I asked her to pay me $45/wk and I would do it and buy the chemicals, but she would rather rely on the "pros". Sigh...