Just say hello

[aylad]

Yup, I'm still here, too....replaced my liner, love it, but my filter is a different story, right now my nice blue sparkly water looks a lot more like a mud pond because I'm trying to figure out why the filter pushes sand into the pool everytime I turn it on. Having the darned thing torn all the way down (again!) next week.......

Otherwise, things are good, water is 76-ish degrees, planning to start swimming at 80 if I can get the sand issue taken care of!

Janet

[CarlD]

Yup, I'm still here, too....replaced my liner, love it, but my filter is a different story, right now my nice blue sparkly water looks a lot more like a mud pond because I'm trying to figure out why the filter pushes sand into the pool everytime I turn it on. Having the darned thing torn all the way down (again!) next week.......

Otherwise, things are good, water is 76-ish degrees, planning to start swimming at 80 if I can get the sand issue taken care of!

Janet

That'll teach YOU to hire Moe, Larry and Curly to install anything! I'm surprised the TV doesn't go on lock into The Golf Channel when you turn on the pump.

[Poconos]

I'm still here too. I look at my pool every day and so far no green. Have had the equipment hooked up for about 6 weeks now and only a few nights have been below freezing but not long or cold enough to be of concern. Hardly used it last season and we'll see about this one. Too cold. Like the rest I do try and check in every day and like the other mods I have other things keeping me busy. I'm also hoping the forum stays alive for another season. Just wish it was open to new members but that's up to the owner. And for Anna, thanks for this great idea and starting this thread.
Wishes to all for a happy and safe Summer.
Al

[AnnaK]

Like Al, we've had our pool operational for about 6 weeks but we haven't yet dropped the steps in it. The water is still way too cold for us to get in. However, the dogs have been begging for weeks so I think we'll put in the steps and let the pool make itself useful.

We redid the step weights a little this year. We emptied the sand out of the PVC tubes and filled them with Quickcrete. It's had plenty of time to cure. Each tube weighs about 25#; there are three inside the front bottom step and three more suspended inside the top step. We've experimented with how to hang the tubes with various successes and failures. This year, we'll try aluminum carabiner snaps.

It's getting warm here in Pennsylvania, o yay!

[CarlD]

I always try to get my pool open and swimmable by May 1, but this year I was late. So today I hooked up the pump, plumbing and got the cover off (with my 15 year old's HUGE help--he's been "helping" since he was little, but actually helping since he was 9 and I was injured). For the first time ever the water was green. Being late and lots of rain, warm weather then cold, well, I'm NOT surprise. So.....lots of LC went in today and we'll see tomorrow!

I haven't bothered with the solar panel or solar cover because I want the water clear first.

Funny, the pool is actually very clean. Sure, there's algae but very little of the usual detritus.

[CarlD]

I'm happy to say it's cleaning up fast. The water is now blue and the APC has come out black-bagged once and will again, and maybe a third time. But at least the water is blue and the FC is holding. 'Course I over-hammered it with LC because after 8 years I'm not concerned if it fades the liner a little.

When it's clean I'll put on the solar panels.

[chem geek]

I check in often. We just got back from overseas and the pool is sparkling (some house sitters put in chlorine twice a week per instructions; I have a mostly opaque pool cover), but it's only 84ºF which is cooler than we'd like. Still need some warmer weather, but looks like we'll get that by mid-May.

Richard