Gunslinger Vrs. FrankenPool

[Gunslinger]

SO last year I had a faulty off line chlorine feeder and didn't know it.  It turned my pool into an algea farm.  That coupled with a nutgrass infestation ruined my liner.

This year the saga continues and boy she's been fighting me every step of the way.

Step one, replace liner.

Turns out that my pool isn't an 18 x 33 like previously thought but it actually measures out at 16 x 29.  The guys at the pool store thought I was an absolute retard till they actually came to my house and measured it.  Sure enough it is 16' x 29'

They scratched their heads in amazment thinking "no one makes a 16' x 29' pool until they notice that my pool is actually two different pools coupled together.

Turns out I have to special order my liner from Canada.....yup extra $300.

Then I inspect the walls for damage.  Looks like the walls without the support of the water caved in on a couple places and jumped the track in others so where the pool is partially burried I have to dig it up.  First that means I have to move the ton of rock that surrounds frankenpool.

Then, Gunslinger decides to be crafty this year and plum all the water with PVC instead of hose.  In addition I am relocating the sand filter and pump next to my tool shed wich I recently ran electricity to.  I can now hook up a timer in the shed and be done with it all.

Well turns out that all the rain and downtime wheren't healthy for the pump.  Who would have thought, rain can damage something that pumps water.

Thus the pump was seized up when I applied power.  My first step was to dismantle the pump to get to the motor but in order to do that I had to removed the bolts that attach it to it's crappy plastic stand.  Turns out they aren't stainless and rusted as well.  SO here I am with my rotary tool cutting off the heads.  I finally get the stand torn apart and the motor removed.  After a couple of forced turns the thing spun right up.  After a quick rebuild and replacment of the rings it works good as new.

Now I have to replace the stand, I'm thinking of building one myself because all the ones that i've seen are crap.


SO after a weeks worth of work I still don't have a liner, and now my pump and filter are back to sqaure one.  (liner won't be delivered until after I go back to work)  SO far i've pumped about $1200 into this project and I still have to replace the stairs going into the pool

Gotta love vacations, yes I'm on two weeks of leave to do some spring mait. on my house and jeep (i'm replacing the exhaust on Sunday....should be a blast...not)

[Ripsnort]

Insert "hole that you throw money into" comment here>>


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[Curval]

While boats are considered holes in the water into which you pour money, pools are just holes in the ground filled with water into which you pour your money.

[Curval]

doh...Rip beat me to it

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Curval
doh...Rip beat me to it

I would replace your "boats" comment with "Old boats".  I bought a new boat and went 9 years without doing so much as changing the oil and putting gas in it.  My current boat is 3 years old, and same thing (well, I did put a fishfinder in it that my dad gave me for xmas...)  

[Airscrew]

Originally posted by Curval
doh...Rip beat me to it

double doh,  Curval beat me to Rip beating me,...  somehow that just doesnt sound right...

[texasmom]

Pools may be money pits... but aren't they soooooooo worth every bit of it when those days hit 110 degrees?  Especially if you have kids... then they get exhausted from playing in the pool and go to bed (and actually fall asleep) at 8:30...

Ahhh... a money pit well worth every dime IMHO.

[rpm]

Guns, I kinda hate to bring it up after all that. But, wouldn't it have been cheaper/easier to get a whole new pool that was the right size and came with new equiptment?

[storch]

don't feel like you are pregnant and all alone.  pools are very high maintenance.  that's why we live on a lake.  also, the fishing is far better in the lake than it ever was in a pool.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by rpm
Guns, I kinda hate to bring it up after all that. But, wouldn't it have been cheaper/easier to get a whole new pool that was the right size and came with new equiptment?

For that size and the equipment I'd be looking at about another $2k.

Yes it might be easier, and nicer than the one I have now but the liner I'm getting has a 20 year warrenty, and I've got way to many hours of work dumped into the the damn thing to start from scratch now.  Plus there's no way I could sell it off as parts as I have no clue what they came from.

Trust me though RPM I have definatly thought about it.

Originally posted by texasmom
Pools may be money pits... but aren't they soooooooo worth every bit of it when those days hit 110 degrees? Especially if you have kids... then they get exhausted from playing in the pool and go to bed (and actually fall asleep) at 8:30...

Ahhh... a money pit well worth every dime IMHO.

Amen!  

Last Summer


Where in the lonestar state are you from?


EDIT:
Yes I work outside but even in hot weather everything's covered but my hands and head.....thus the paisty white body,  

If somone really wants to make my day they'd photoshop a mini Nilsen on a ship wearing his prirate hat floating next to me.

EditII:

Another project this week has been to pressure wash the fence.  It no longer looks like that.  

[Ripsnort]

$300 pool, that costs nothing in maintenance except chlorine.
(18 ft dia. x 48" deep)



Wifes been crying for an inground for 3 years, so far I've been able to thwart her efforts.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
$300 pool, that costs nothing in maintenance except chlorine.
(18 ft dia. x 48" deep)



Wifes been crying for an inground for 3 years, so far I've been able to thwart her efforts.

We had one of those pools.  It was nice but it was hard to keep clean as the angled sides.  

Not to mention we had alot of holes in the inflatable ring from birds and dogs.

It got to be such a pain.  This pool is a monster of pain in comparrison.

[Ripsnort]

This is our 2nd one in 6 years...they are indeed "disposible" after a bit.

[texasmom]

Originally posted by Gunslinger


Where in the lonestar state are you from?
 

When my husband retired from the army, we stayed put up at Ft. Hood.

[Roscoroo]

you really need a shovel ,and  a zillion bags of cement .