Another season winds up....

[CarlD]

But this was the worst swimming season in 10 years. We swam far less, there was far too much rain, and even the chemistry changed.

I almost NEVER use Tri-Chlor pucks--but this season I did. With all the rain washing out the CYA and chlorine, I took to using one or two floaters to try to compensate. It helped and kept me from all but one early season bloom. But I barely kept CYA at minimal levels.

But I had to add far more Borax and Washing Soda as well to get the pH back up and raise the TA.

[aylad]

With all the rain we had, I ended up using trichlor all season, and with the feeder turned up higher than normal, just to try to maintain my CYA!!

Janet

[Watermom]

This was the worst swimming season for me as well. Our summers are typically very hot here in Charleston, but this summer was actually very cool and lots of rain. I was also in Houston at MD Anderson for several weeks this summer so lost swimming time then as well. (Not cool there, however. One week we were there it was over 100 pretty much every day.) I typically am in my pool most every day, but this summer, I would guess that I was only in 10 times at most -- and that is probably a high guestimate actually. I also can normally swim until early October before it gets too cool.

My pool is not put to bed yet for the winter, but we haven't been in it for a long time now. Cool nights make for COLD water! Still have to keep the pump on for awhile yet to circulate and add bleach occasionally since we still have hot days. I'll cover it within the next couple of weeks before the gazillion leaves start falling, but won't take the pump off until we start having freezing nighttime temps which is usually sometime in November.

Hoping next summer is a little more cooperative and conducive to swimming than this one was.

Lisa