On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:00:22 -0500, Califbill
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:01:28 -0700 (PDT), True North
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On Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:53:33 UTC-3, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:11:04 -0500, Califbill
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Maybe location. We leave the pool uncovered in the winter. Even the rain
overfilling, does not cause a problem. Water goes somewhere. But we are
10' higher than the house behind us. I use a tablet floater, and acid is
added occasionally.

Same here. I spend a couple minutes a week on the pool once I got the
routine down. I will admit Henc's pool ran trouble free all summer
last year but I had the percentage up more than he liked. The year
before that I was pouring chlorine in it every week and we still had
some green days.

A backyard pool up here would be a worse investment than a boat. Way to
expensive and troublesome for the amount of use it would get.

Exactly I knew people with pools up there and a lot never got reopened
after a few winters.
Since we usually have screen enclosures here the pool maintenance will
be a lot lower and if you can deal with 70 degree water I suppose you
could use it all year long.
If you have a cover and solars, you can maintain more like 80 in the
winter but a cover is a pain in the ass unless you have a powered
cover.


My cover is on a roller, so not a big hassle. But pool is kidney shape,
so powered covers are not as easy to install. I just buy a new solar cover
about every 18 months. They have a long warranty but seems as if the
warranty is for the seams and not the bubbles.


I have a bubble cover for the spa and I get 3 or 4 seasons out of it
but I store it inside most of the year.
The sun kills them pretty fast. I made a frame for it from PVC that
makes it easy to flip open.