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Curious of the above post, why?

You should have an outside switch to turn on your light, normally there is a GFCI plug next to it, which means the light is on a GFCI circuit, if that's not the case contact an electrician to insure you and yours are safe.

Go to your local pool store (not Walmart, please please support your local pool store, maybe not as cheap as Walmart, but go ahead and ask a Walmart employee how to take of your pool, you will get I dunno from them) and get a DE scoop, tell them your filter size and they will tell you how many scoops. BTW, Bio Guard (and other companies) sell a synthetic DE which will not cause cancer, I used it all last year and it was awesome, plus it last longer than regular DE, food for thought. Also, no need to mix your DE with water, just slowly add it to your skimming. Happy Swimming!

Chances are very good that 20K gallons will be nothing for your well. An average family of four uses a heck of a lot more than that in a year. $2000 for a well pump, wow I want to be a well digger in your area, I had a pump replaced in my last home (no pool) for $700 including labor, so two water deliveries would just about cover it. My 28K gallon pool leaked this winter, I was able to save the liner and last week I filled my pool with 28K gallons of well water and my water has a good amount of minerals and metals, I added metal out enough to treat 40K gallons of water and the only down side is, is that I have already had to backwash my DE filter once (after running it for two days) and I will have to do it again soon. It took me about three days to fill it, what you don't want to do is once you start filling it, leave the hose on, keep the pump running, all the cool water surrounding the pump will keep the motor cool and running great, the worse thing for it would be to cycle on and off. Also the calcium carbonates will most likely be very high, so you will need to treat for that. My pool is crystal clear and looks great even with the 2" of snow we had this morning! My two pennies, fill with your well. Oh one last thing, my pool installer has been doing this for over thirty years and he has had no customers hurt their well or pump from filling their pool and everyone here is on a well. Good luck.

Well an update. A week ago Sunday it was 80 degrees here (today we got 2" of snow!) and my pool installer came out and decided I wouldn't need a new liner. He completely emptied the pool and he did find one hole however it was above the water line by about 8" or so, so still not sure of why the water drained completely out of the shallow end, but it did. Anyways, he put a vacuum in and the liner did suck back down, I filled via my garden hose and after a day he removed the vacuum and within in 3 days my 28K gallon pool was filled! So far so good, I'll have to monitor all summer to insure I don't have a really slow leak and I'll go from there! Currently the pool water is crystal clear (man I have a well not city water, talk about tons of iron that I had to bind up and get trapped in my DE filter, but it's all gone) the floor is a wee bit dirty and as soon as it warms up, I'll connect the Polaris and within a day that will be clean too! I got very lucky I believe.

Thanks Scott that's kinda what I figured. By reset do you mean the liner won't have enough elasticity left in it to suck back down? Last year the pool was closed very poorly as this home was a foreclosure and the bank had it done, this I had it closed properly, new cover and such and this happens! Was this just really bad luck? Does anyone get to claim this on their homeowners and if so, is there certain verb-age I should use if I make a claim? To me it would make the most sense that there is an issue at the main drain since the pool has zero water in it sans the water on the cover, so it's either a hole near the main drain or an issue with the main drain, but I never had any issues last summer, all the lines were blown out so I think they closed it properly. By the time I add all the chemicals back in the pool and new liner I would imagine this is the most expensive repair I could have, ugh. Assuming I will need a new liner any thing specific I should ask for when shopping for the liner and install? Does having a Lazy L and swim-out make it more expensive (I love the design of the Lazy L it adds so much more character than just a rectangle vinyl but it does seem to be a little more expensive and harder to maintain, oh well everything has a price huh?)? Since I have to get a liner are there any options that can be installed, meaning is this a window of opportunity that I can take advantage or is that a crazy question? As I said I am a new pool owner so please forgive the dumb questions. Also I am on a fixed income so maybe even if I had some new accessory options I won't be able to afford it anyway, lol.

Hi all I am new as this is my 1st post. I have a 30K gallon vinyl in-ground Lazy L with a swim-out. I bought my home (and with it the pool, it's about 7 years old, the pool that is) last spring and went through a summer with no major issues. I live in Michigan we had our 1st thaw in Feb at that time I noticed my cover starting to rip it was then I realized that I lost all of my water! The liner was in great shape no patches anywhere and the pool was closed properly, lines blown out, plugs etc .. so my question is, what are my chances of having to get a new liner? Like 90% I am thinking, but I sure hope I am wrong, any suggestions? Thanks in advance, and think Summer all!