BBB Approved Pool Sitters?

[KirstenHW]

Hi all - not sure if this is the right section for this post . . .

Thrilled to be back in the swim this year - didn't open the pool last summer. As I was vacuuming on Sunday after opening on Sat, I was musing on the prospect of some trips this summer that will keep me from my appointed pool tasks. I then got nervous as I really have no one that I trust to properly BBB my pool while we are away. After years of BBBing, my pool store guy knows not to hawk his wares - he refers to me as The Chemist. I'd be happy to pay a pool service to keep things in check, except I know from first hand experience they'll foul things up. Ten days away for 3 weeks of back-peddling is a bear.

Has anyone out there ever thought of putting together a pay it forward style BBB pool sitting network by geo area? We live in the lower Hudson Valley of NY in Orange county - if there are others out there who feel the same, I'd love to connect.

Just a thought!

Cheers

[Spensar]

When I have gone away I have bought bleach jugs and written days of the week on them for someone to put them in to the pool. For ten days, you should be fine as long as your chlorine level stays high enough. I err on the side of caution and run a high chlorine level this way.

[CarlD]

I do EXACTLY the same thing as Spensar: I collect a bunch of gallon jugs and put just how much LC I want to go in every day and fill the rest with clean tap water. I tell my "deputy" to pour in one jug every day. Nice and simple. If I'm short on jugs, I put more LC in each jug and have the "deputy" pour in a jug every other day. It's simple and it works.

Carl

[AnnaK]

Has anyone out there ever thought of putting together a pay it forward style BBB pool sitting network by geo area? We live in the lower Hudson Valley of NY in Orange county - if there are others out there who feel the same, I'd love to connect.

I think that's an absolutely brilliant suggestion!

We go away for 6 weeks every August and don't have anyone to care for the pool in even the most minimalist way. I would love to have someone whom I 'know' from one of the pool forums check on it now and then. There are many ways people have devised to manage their pools during an absence but there's nothing that beats a little personal attention by someone who shares our maintenance philosophies and knows how to do a Taylor test.

I would certainly participate in such a proposal.