Hi, Larry!

I found threads started by you all over the place and merged them together into this one.

In your first post, you mention the hassle of the need to use bleach and chlorine and having to drain the pool 3x per summer. First of all, having a pool is definitely some work but it really only takes me no more than 5 minutes per day at most to add a little bleach if needed. As far as having to drain the pool 3x per summer, I'm not sure where you got that idea. You should never have to drain a properly maintained pool.

We can help you learn to do that very thing --- maintain your pool. Do a lot of reading here on the forum, especially the stickied threads. Also go on over and read on our sister website www.poolsolutions.com. Lots of good information there as well.

Order yourself a good kit to make your pool care easier on you. You can't get this kit locally, but you can order it through this link:> http://pool9.net/tk/ The kit you want is either the Taylor K2006 or 2006C (better buy).

You can use this link to search the entire forum and also on Pool Solutions:> http://pool9.net/search/

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have further questions and someone here will be glad to try and help.

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