So depressed... :(

[matt4x4]

Things got cold fast up here, my pool is 62, AND, to top it all off, I still have to get in to take the weight off the steps and get the steps out - praying for a 2-3 day warm spell here.....

[RavenNS]

I actually had the hot tub before the pool. The beinging able to use it year round sold me
It's a stand alone, & I assure you TENEX that it won't get hauled away for the weekend. These things are heavy! - it also stood up to one huricane & two really nasty blizzards.

I'm depressed about closing the pool, & winter - stuck in the house

I have a heat pump, but I have't figured out when it's just not worth while paying to heat anymore ( we like the pool at about 90F).

Matt 4x4, I thought I had read that you bought a new heater ( guess I'm mixing you up with someone else)

Winter, the one time a year that I wish that I lived elsewhere, otherwise I love living in Canada

[tenax]

hey raven..twas i who bought the new heater! i have come up with an easy way to decide when to close the pool. if the air temp is less than 20C, the kids simply won't use it..not cause i can't heat up the pool enough, but they don't like the chill they feel coming out (sucks, i know) when we moved here 4years ago, i ran the pool right until end of sept. it was silly...the cost of running my heater 10 hours a day steady for the sake of wanting to swim 3 hours a week. i figure if i'm going to pay a bill for daily heating, they better use it every day i did not have a solar cover then so i literally did have to run the heater 10 hours per day to keep it up on the low 80s...i am very interested to see how it does this month...i have not had the heater going long enough to get a sense of what the monthly bill could cost me for ngas now that i have a cover, new heater and can't forget,a timer!. i can tell you that last summer, the natural gas for one month cost me over 300 dollars which is in line with the enercan program i was tipped off to which says for southern alberta, with a swimming season from may 15th to end of september, the cost without a cover would be about 300 a month for ngas. it was very handy to show my wife that based on the average weather pattern for may and june for this region, that there actually is only 2 swimmable days in those 2 weeks of may and all of sept..i'm going to continue running the heater this week and into the weekend (temp 24 to 29C) but i see by next wed, it's going down to 16 during the day..we're done..that will be almost mid september.

had quite an argument last year for not consulting my wife on pool shutdown time (i shut down middle of september) she wanted to go until the end of sept and it was getting bloody cold..no amount of logic would change her mind..so this year, i rolled out plenty of logic in advance..she can't argue with fact.

well, she can..but i'm still going to shut it down next week or at least turn down the heater so it won't turn on

[mbar]

Me too - very depressed

[tenax]

hey, it's alright guys..me and the missus had some counselling and were fine..

ooohh..you mean the weather

[sjkader]

here in South Dakota its getting cold, but the little lady says we have a heater and she plans on getting some use out of this pool we are just finishing!
We went with propane for heat, yes it cost more to run but then we also know how much we are spending right away to keep the pool heated.

She wants to swim so she has no problem filling the tank and i get to reap the benefits also!

So if you are all shutting your pools down and need a place to swim. Head on over and ill even provide the beer!

[matt4x4]

Raven - I do have a heater (solar) but it's only 1/3rd of what's recommended for my size pool, it gets things going early in the year, unfortunately, we've had NO sun the last couple of weeks and the temps really dropped off in the pool. I'm hoping this weekend will change things enough to get in and get the stuff out - I'm afraid this season's pretty much over now.

[larry2338]

RavenNS

( we like the pool at about 90F)



I'm with you. 88 degrees is perfect, 90 is fine. You guys who get in the pool @80 degrees or less are tougher than me!!!

[Mom2Czars]

Fall came early to New England this year. About mid August all of a sudden we had no more daytime temps above 80 and chilly, chilly nights. I kept thinking surely it would change and we'd have another heat wave -- but nothing. The water temp dropped steadily and at last check it was down to 64. Brrrrr. Nobody had gone in for two weeks. Closed it up Labor Day weekend, since I got tired of fishing out the leaves every day. Even the trees gave up early this year.

Matt -- we finagled our steps out without getting in. :happy dance: We cut the cable ties to the sand jugs off with tree loppers, hoisted out the steps and then rigged up a 'fishing hook' to get the jugs and loose cable ties out. I caught the stair pad with the vacuum. No way I was getting into that pool.

[CarlD]

After 2 weeks on vacation, and lots of rain (Ernesto's tail) my pool was in the 70's on returning. I've gotten it to 81, but I'm hoping for a couple more sunny days to get it into the mid 80's so we can all swim some more. I'm also hoping for a sunny September so we can really use the pool till October. (solar heat and solar cover).