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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Gunslinger on March 17, 2006, 11:43:54 PM
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Finally got into Texas. I have to say taking the I10 the whole way sucked major ass, but I love my new house. I'm going to home depot tomorrow for some "stuff" and for the first time in 4 years this will be a 10 minute trip.
after that it's off to a good pool supply store to learn how to maintain my pool because its filled with green water and I have no clue how to fix it.
:aok
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Congrats on the move, time to change your "Location:" now?
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Better adjust your profile. You're now way WAY to the right of me. ;)
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Welcome to Texas the leading state
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Welcome to Tejas!
Now get you a big bottle of shock for your pool.
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Muratic acid mmmm mmmm I remember those pool days. Do yourself a HUGE favor, purchase a Polaris 165 Pool Cleaner. It'll save you hours of cleaning time.
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Originally posted by MoeRon
Muratic acid mmmm mmmm I remember those pool days. Do yourself a HUGE favor, purchase a Polaris 165 Pool Cleaner. It'll save you hours of cleaning time.
I might have one who knows. I have a big turtle t hing that cleans the bottom and hooks up the the sand filter some how. I'm gonna try the shock first but I really need to read "pool cleaning for dummies"
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i thought that was you being searched in sierra blanca.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
after that it's off to a good pool supply store to learn how to maintain my pool because its filled with green water and I have no clue how to fix it.
:aok
It`s allready fixed. St Patties day dontcha know. :)
JTs
i thought that was you being searched in sierra blanca.
Wheeew! I spent a week in Sierra Blanca one night. ;)
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Originally posted by JTs
i thought that was you being searched in sierra blanca.
nope not me.....The truckers were generally pretty good to me on the road. Aside from I-10 being closed outside of Tucsan two days ago the wind was the only thing slowing me up.
I was the Uhaul towing the white jeep wrangler that cept getting pushed all over the raod ever time the wind blew or a big truck passed me. The trip got a little long around Van Horn, it was night and I couldn't stand having the lights in my mirrors shine right into my face.
OH forgot to mention the previous owners left me a Pony Keg and a CO2 tank w/ tap.
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Originally posted by Sandman
Better adjust your profile. You're now way WAY to the right of me. ;)
That could be considered to be a very good thing................ :p
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Save some time and trouble. Just throw all your money and credit cards into the pool.
HONK!
Gooss
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Originally posted by Gooss
Save some time and trouble. Just throw all your money and credit cards into the pool.
HONK!
Gooss
That's funny
Seriously though I have no clue where to start. Should I drain and refill it? Should I just throw a bunch of shock in there? I need to find a good store that has a guru working there.
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Originally posted by Maverick
That could be considered to be a very good thing................ :p
Over a few beers, you'll probably find that our similarities far out number our differences. ;)
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Originally posted by Sandman
Over a few beers, you'll probably find that our similarities far out number our differences. ;)
I look forward to finding out, seriously. ;)
PS, now YOU have to change your location too! It's no longer "slightly".
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"Add some horns to your 'tard" is also good advice IMO
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Drain and refill? Depends on if you want one helluva water bill
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I don't envy you on the pool cleaning stuff. Can't you hire a company fairly cheap to do regular maintenance on it?
FWIW I'd drain it and start from scratch. It has been sitting a while breeding all kinds of bacteria. Your kids will be in it...take the water bill hit.
Anyway, glad you arrived safe.
Enjoy the new house.
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LePaul and Curval have excellent points.
I don't have a pool, but I have a spa. If you're gonna try the DIY, get a 6 way test kit. It will tell you what your water is like and what you need to do it. You're probably looking at about $100 for all the chemicals you will need to get you thru the year if you are starting from scratch.
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My realator reminded me that it was clear when we were out here for a visit less than a month ago so I'm not going to drain it. Somone told me that I can take a bottle of it up to leslie's pool supply and they can tell me EXACTLY how FUBAR the water is and tell me where to start as far as the mait. goes.
Either way I'm gonna throw some shock in it tomorrow and see what happens. I'm more excited about the Co2 tank and keg tap than anything else.
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Any good pool store can do that. I keep my own kit, but I usually take a sample to the pool store just to double check occasionally.
As for vacuums, Kreepy Krauley works well and it has just one moving part.
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Originally posted by Maverick
I look forward to finding out, seriously. ;)
PS, now YOU have to change your location too! It's no longer "slightly".
I'll probably stay here in California until I retire... and then maybe I'll still stay.
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mmmm, nice. a Pool. We moved and now have no pool. I really miss it. :( You'll be loving it in the summer. Beer, BBQ and a pool. Cant get any better.
Good luck with the new house man.
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Originally posted by Morpheus
mmmm, nice. a Pool. We moved and now have no pool. I really miss it. :( You'll be loving it in the summer. Beer, BBQ and a pool. Cant get any better.
Good luck with the new house man.
you forgot, Keg, Tap, and Co2 tank :aok
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Now all ya need is an old refridgerator and a drill. Instant kegerator.
Seriously, go buy a 6-way test kit. You can get them anywhere, even WalMart. It will tell you what you need to add. Here's a short list of basic stuff:
Chlorine tablets
Ph Plus
Ph Minus
Algaecide
Shock
Stabilzer
Oh yeah, and a 6-way test kit.
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Congrats on the move and good luck with the new place!
Guess whatchya gonna find at the bottom of the pool when yah can see it?
Lug Nuts for a Jeep.
:D
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Originally posted by Sandman
I'll probably stay here in California until I retire... and then maybe I'll still stay.
I was referring to the location you have listed near your avatar. :huh
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You may come to hate that pool. They're a LOT of work. What size is it? My former home had an above-ground 24 foot diameter pool with a deck built around 1/5 of it. It was a nice setup, but one that ultimately wasn't worth the hassle. I think it held something over 14,000 gallons. I think most residential pools are considerably smaller than that.
First of all--if it's under a tree or something, get rid of the tree. Constantly fishing leaves out of the pool sucks.
Second, since it's still early in the year, take pre-emptive measures all around the railings to prevent wasps from building nests (this is obviously a non-factor if it's an in ground pool). Wasps love building nexts up under the railings many larger above-ground pools have, and you will make them angry when you go swimming. Take it from someone who knows--clouds of angry wasps aren't much fun to share a pool with.
The water itself shouldn't be green--the green is most likely from algae growing on the pool liner. This happens when you don't treat the water for too long and don't have the filter system running. Let it go long enough and it will begin to look brown, and eventually black and stinking (yuck!). Don't drain it unless you like massive water bills (plus it'd take days or weeks for the typical garden hose to fill a pool). You'll need a special chemical called 'shock' initially to clear it up, and a test kit is a must. YOU MUST HAVE A WATER TEST KIT. Do your own water testing even if you end up paying for someone else to do the cleaning, because it's YOUR health on the line. Inadequately-treated water is bad, but so is over-treated water. You should probably have some sort of floatation device which you can put slow-dissolving treatment tablets in. You'll also need various chemicals (such as chlorine), a pool vacuum, and some sort of surface skimmer net. Hopefully the previous owners left you all these tools; if they didn't it can get sort of pricey.
You will need to periodically run the hose to add water to the pool. If you have to run the hose daily with nobody using the pool, that's a common indicator that your liner is torn and needs replacement. This requires you to drain the pool and should be done at the beginning of the year, so find out now if you need it. If the pool's sides are built out of aluminum, find out how old it is--old pools DO break (the 24-foot pool at my old place ruptured once, and required total replacement). If it's an in-ground pool, collapse is obviously a nonissue and it probably won't have a liner, either.
Your pool will have some sort of filter system. This system typically has a small skimmer attached to the pool to catch bugs and other floating stuff, a tank (typically filled with sand sold for this purpose) for actual filtration, and then a pump to return the water to the pool and create a constant current so the pool doesn't become stagnant and turn green. The skimmer and the water return hose might be built into the sides of the pool, or they might simply hang over the top of the rail. The types that hang over the top are easier to maintain. You'll need to get this running and operate it pretty much every day. You will have to clean out the filter in the skimmer regularly (usually daily). You also will likely need to backwash the system weekly or so, depending on how much dirt gets into the pool. The control to backwash is normally a valve attached to the filter. The motor for the pool's filter system also typically powers the vacuum when you clean your pool.
If you have kids, expect them to have green poop after they go swimming, so don't freak out if they do. Something with the chlorine causes it and kids seem to love drinking pool water.
Get your phone book and find a store in your area that specifically sells pool supplies. The guys who work in these places should be able to tell you exactly what you need. I haven't had to maintain a pool in more than ten years, and many of the parts were older than I am, so what I know may be outdated in some regards.
J_A_B
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Originally posted by Maverick
I was referring to the location you have listed near your avatar. :huh
Doh.
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So the real question is... Has skuzzy sent you a house warming Scotch yet? Has anyone sent you booze yet?
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When I goofed keeping my hot tub water balanced, the local pool expert switched me from shock / sanitizer to chlorine for a few weeks to kill everything, and then back to shock and sanitizer following a good filter cleaning. You may need to clean out your filter after getting all the green stuff out of the water.
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Thanks for the info JAB
It's an above ground pool that's oval shaped It looks about 20 ft long and about 10 ft wide. The filter is a "sand filter" and it has a pump, automatic inline clorine feeder all fed by a skimmer.
The previous owners left the vacum, brush, hose, and a turtle thing that I assume cleans the bottom.
I have all sorts of chemicals as well PH+ PH- Algecide, chlorine, pool clear, ect. And I know what a test kit is but the only thing they left is a bunch of test strips wich I assume only test for PH and CL levels.
On the filter itself there's settings for "Backwash, Filter, Reciprocate?, winterize. I have no clue how to clean the filter itself, it says it's under pressure so I don't want to just open the sucker up. Does it actually have a cartrige?
Here's the realtor pics, I still havn't found wich box my camera is in:
(http://www.cbharper.com/photos/large/SABOR575671G.jpg)
(http://www.cbharper.com/photos/large/SABOR575671E.jpg)
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That's a pretty big aboveground pool ya got there Guns. Looks about 12 x 20. It's hard to tell without something next to it for reference. Set a couple of these next to it:
(http://www.texasbikini.com/mainart/pool%20tn.jpg)
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I'd like to report some progress with the pool.
It is no longer a dark green but a light aqua/blueish green. I threw a bunch of shock in there yesturday after adjusting the PH (the acid made cool smoke) and threw in some algecide for good measure.
I've been vacuming the bottom when ever I have downtime. We've had cloud cover the last couple of days and today we have some sunlight. I'm hopeing the direct sun will help clear up the cloudyness in the water and I can actually clean the trouble spots.
(http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7784/dcp10328lp.jpg)
(http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/565/dcp10336jf.jpg)
next I plan on removing the stairs to the pool and cleaning them up good then resinking them with the bricks on the deck....at least I beleive that's what they are there for.
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If I remember the shok properly, I would just treat and let it sit then vacuum it up. Ours was an indoor pool so it was much easier to maintain.
You should take a look at the valve on top of the filter. Should be backwash and rinse settings. To clean out the filter, set to backwash until the water runs clean then set to rinse untilit runs clean again then set back to filter. Back wash basically pumps the water backwards through the filter and blasts the accumulated goo out the waste pipe.
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Check with a pool place about how to use and clean your filter. Some filters still use diatamacious (sp?) earth as a filtering media. You definately do not want to flush that stuff into the pool. If the water was pretty nasty with lots of floating gunk in it and the filter is not cleaned fairly often you won't get the water cleaned out.
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When you flush you are not dumping it back into the pool. It goes out a waste line to the ground.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I'm more excited about the Co2 tank and keg tap than anything else.
i swear i am the only one commenting on this ROFL...
those are sweet, and expensive (for a good one) and the CO2 setup is expensive too (if you are building one).
make sure to clean the tubes right off, then have an icy cold one for me bud ;) :aok
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Yup what rabit said. I D/Led the instructions for the filter/pump and have been back washing pretty regularly just to start with a clean system. Fortunaly there's a drainage gully behind my fence so it's easy to do. We got a ton of rain last night so I've been pumping some of the water out.
Yea mustain I havn't gotten around to clean out the lines but I am going to snag a pennysaver next chance I get to find a fridge for it.
another of the pool from the deck
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5697/dcp10362qr.th.jpg) (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp10362qr.jpg)
another veiw
(http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6070/dcp10386hd.th.jpg) (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp10386hd.jpg)
Filter system
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3371/dcp10376nu.th.jpg) (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp10376nu.jpg)
here's the party room where the Garage is supposed to be
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8566/dcp10349lh.th.jpg) (http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp10349lh.jpg)
And finally the keg, tap, and tank:
(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2356/keg5ca.th.jpg) (http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=keg5ca.jpg)