Our Mountain Retreat

[JimK]

I hope your weather is getting better than it was. I wore shorts and a t-shirt today in hopes of changing the weather pattern back to what it was a week or two ago. No, haven't ordered the test kits. But I did just order my new BBQ and accessories for the built-in. Actually, in reading some of the posts on my salt chlorinator thread, JimK and SunnyOptimism seem to think that the K-1766 may be a waste, and test strips for testing salt levels work just fine. No? I believe you had your input in there too.

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...ol-Build/page4

Will have to read through that entire thread again. I'm going to have to read through a lot of my posts, again. Kind of miss those guys from my previous post. I'm assuming everyone is still hanging around the forum. CarlD? SunnyOptimism? Heard from JimK. Think he likes our special "pets" we have living under our patio.

I should probably clarify I have no experience with the Taylor salt test kit. I've only used the strips I mentioned in that thread (with good results).

Lol...yes, I like a wide variety of critters, including your special ones.

[Toybuilder]

I should probably clarify I have no experience with the Taylor salt test kit. I've only used the strips I mentioned in that thread (with good results).

Lol...yes, I like a wide variety of critters, including your special ones.

I think I may start with the strips comparing it to the readout on the chlorinator to see how close they are. If there is a wide reading between the two then I may get the K-1766. Hopefully, that won't give me a completely different reading than the strips or the chlorinator.

As for the special pets, they're probably frozen popsicle sticks at the moment. It's about 6 degrees out.

[JimK]

I think I may start with the strips comparing it to the readout on the chlorinator to see how close they are. If there is a wide reading between the two then I may get the K-1766. Hopefully, that won't give me a completely different reading than the strips or the chlorinator.

As for the special pets, they're probably frozen popsicle sticks at the moment. It's about 6 degrees out.

The strips usually read within about 200ppm or so of what my SWCG reads. Close enough for me.

Poor critters.....

[Toybuilder]

The strips usually read within about 200ppm or so of what my SWCG reads. Close enough for me.

Poor critters.....

Good enough for me too! Honestly, I wouldn't know. I have a hole in the ground with snow in it...and some dirt.

[JimK]

Good enough for me too! Honestly, I wouldn't know. I have a hole in the ground with snow in it...and some dirt.

That's pretty much what ours looks like right now. We got about 6" of snow this past Tuesday and it's still around (temps plumitted here). Here it's rare for snow to stick around this long.

[FormerBromineUser]

It's kinda quiet around here right now....

[JimK]

It's kinda quiet around here right now....

Two more months till pool opening here.......

[FormerBromineUser]

Right now, 2 months seems like forever!!!

[JimK]

Right now, 2 months seems like forever!!!

Especially since we've been freezing our areses here! Local station is saying this is turning out to be one of our coldest February's on record.

[FormerBromineUser]

That's what they're saying here too. And I am a believer!