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  • Birthday 07/27/1973

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    Spring, Texas 77386
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    I use to be interested in camping, hiking, white water rafting and adventure sports. 10 years of marriage and fatherhood later, now all I'm interested in is peace and quiet. Maybe a little Miller Light.

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  1. I have a 25,000 gallon in ground concrete / plaster pool. It is an older pool (1998ish) but new to us - we just moved in a few months back. To prepare for the swim season I gave it a good shocking last night. Leslie's recommended 4lbs of Cal-Hypo Shock. I put that in last night at 7:00 PM and now 12 hours later it is cloudy as all heck. Water was crystal clear when I started. I'm hoping that time in the sun today (Phoenix AZ 97 deg ambient / 78 deg water temp) will help to clarify but I'm still eager for your opinions and advice. Pool needs to be swim-able for Friday.
  2. WOW. I didn't know that... I thought it reduced oxidizer breakdown.
  3. I have a ladder that came with our pool. It isn't a great ladder but it isn't half bad (Confer Plastics Model #7000 Eliminator A-frame Ladder). Still it can make getting in and out a little precarious. Since I don't like falling from 5' up, I'm considering a new one. What do you like and what do you reccommend? http://www.conferplastics.com/ladders_deck_a_frame.php
  4. Underwater speakers are only beneficial if you have special underwater ears. Since I only came with the standard human ears, I only hear clicks and pops under water. Everything else sounds muted. Save your money for a bitchin margarita machine.
  5. Here is a guy with a similar issue. http://www.poolspaforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20013
  6. No filter traps 100% of everything. Some stuff is bound to get by. In my area we get bad air quality from agricultural fires burning way down in Mexico. Eventually Mexican Corn Soot Particulate ends up in my pool and it is too fine to filter out. When it gets annoying enough (I'm *** about pool water), I just do a very fast vac to waste and get it out of the pool system all together.
  7. I use some stuff called, "No More Problems" and I have no more problems. http://www.h2opoolproducts.com/product_inf...roducts_id=1252
  8. We have had some monstrous deluges here. I use to go out and pre-backwash in anticipation (yes, I'm a jackass too...), but some of our storms, especially in the spring and fall will still overflow a pool that is drained a little from the get-go. Here recently it actually has overflowed several times regardless of my better intentions. And I learned one key thing... The overflow doesn't really hurt the pool. There it is, plain and simple. What you do need to watch out for is erosion. Water spilling over the edges of the pool can erode the dirt below and then you can have a pool failure. This is how the levees failed in NOLA from Hurricane Katrina. They were strong enough to hold back tides at war, but a little trickle over the top and all the sudden the earth eroded and there was nothing to hold up the levee - WHAMO! Rather than obsess about the pool level and overflow and storms and stuff, I just make sure I have a good thick bed of pea gravel surrounding the pool to reduce the pounding effects of the water flowing over.
  9. http://www.poolspaforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12758
  10. I've never had to secure a pool for a hurricane. What do I need to do? I've already pre-shocked it in anticipation of rain water.
  11. Try a natural enzyme called "Pool First Aid." Gets water really clear.
  12. Somewhere there is a formula to calculate how much pressure loss you get per linear foot of pipe and per 90 degrees of bend. I think that will be the main concern, not so much the fact that it is underground. I'm in an area of Texas (South East) where the air temp rarely drops below 35 degrees, let alone the ground temp. Does your soil heave? Would you need to bury and run it below the frost zone?
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