On 4/22/2016 2:34 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/22/16 2:21 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced.
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.


I'm so glad our county builds and maintains a number of indoor and
outdoor pools, and maintains them properly. The Edward T. Hall Aquatics
Center, with an indoor ten-lane, 50-meter pool with a diving well as
well as therapy and leisure pools and toddler pools and several exercise
rooms, is only a couple of minutes from the house. Every time I've been
there, I've noticed the pool maintenance folks checking the water
chemistry in all the pools at least once an hour. It's a great facility,
with lots of parking, nice locker rooms, snacks, and instructors, if you
need them, and ongoing therapy programs.

Public swimming pools need a lot of monitoring.

On 4/22/16 6:40 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/22/2016 2:34 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/22/16 2:21 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced.
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.


I'm so glad our county builds and maintains a number of indoor and
outdoor pools, and maintains them properly. The Edward T. Hall Aquatics
Center, with an indoor ten-lane, 50-meter pool with a diving well as
well as therapy and leisure pools and toddler pools and several exercise
rooms, is only a couple of minutes from the house. Every time I've been
there, I've noticed the pool maintenance folks checking the water
chemistry in all the pools at least once an hour. It's a great facility,
with lots of parking, nice locker rooms, snacks, and instructors, if you
need them, and ongoing therapy programs.

Public swimming pools need a lot of monitoring.


Well, then, I'm glad they get it. I like swimming in the big pool.

On 4/22/2016 4:00 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced.
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.



I looked at converting to salt, and looked like it was as least or more
expensive than chlorine. Replace a couple hundred buck cell every few
years, and lots of electricity. You also might check for phosphate level.
Lots of leafs raise up the phosphate and encourage algae bloom. I use
liquid in the winter and tabs rest of year. Using liquid reduces the
conditioner which the tabs add. Mine was cloudy , but acid was low, and
1000 phosphate level. Or phosphate may be just a way for Leslie to sell
more expensive additives.



I guess it depends on where you live. We've had three straight chlorine
pools, two in Florida and one in MA. All three required constant
monitoring and "adjustments". The salt based pool we put in the last
house was almost maintenance free once it was up, running and
stabilized. It takes a bit up here because when you first take the pool
cover off the water isn't green ... it's black. But, after shocking it,
cleaning it, adding some algecide, salt and some stabilizer that's about
it for the rest of the summer. Once a month we took a sample down to
the pool supply place just to be sure. Never had to add anything other
than maybe another bag or two of salt late in the summer.

On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6:40:45 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/22/2016 2:34 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/22/16 2:21 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced..
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.


I'm so glad our county builds and maintains a number of indoor and
outdoor pools, and maintains them properly. The Edward T. Hall Aquatics
Center, with an indoor ten-lane, 50-meter pool with a diving well as
well as therapy and leisure pools and toddler pools and several exercise
rooms, is only a couple of minutes from the house. Every time I've been
there, I've noticed the pool maintenance folks checking the water
chemistry in all the pools at least once an hour. It's a great facility,
with lots of parking, nice locker rooms, snacks, and instructors, if you
need them, and ongoing therapy programs.

Public swimming pools need a lot of monitoring.

For all the public **** and dingleberries left in those pools. Nasty. I don't swim in public pools.

Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/22/2016 4:00 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced.
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.



I looked at converting to salt, and looked like it was as least or more
expensive than chlorine. Replace a couple hundred buck cell every few
years, and lots of electricity. You also might check for phosphate level.
Lots of leafs raise up the phosphate and encourage algae bloom. I use
liquid in the winter and tabs rest of year. Using liquid reduces the
conditioner which the tabs add. Mine was cloudy , but acid was low, and
1000 phosphate level. Or phosphate may be just a way for Leslie to sell
more expensive additives.



I guess it depends on where you live. We've had three straight chlorine
pools, two in Florida and one in MA. All three required constant
monitoring and "adjustments". The salt based pool we put in the last
house was almost maintenance free once it was up, running and
stabilized. It takes a bit up here because when you first take the pool
cover off the water isn't green ... it's black. But, after shocking it,
cleaning it, adding some algecide, salt and some stabilizer that's about
it for the rest of the summer. Once a month we took a sample down to
the pool supply place just to be sure. Never had to add anything other
than maybe another bag or two of salt late in the summer.




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.

6:05 PMIts Me
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For all the public **** and dingleberries left in those pools. Nasty. I don't swim in public pools.
---

Me either. I go where fish poop. Either the lake or my pond...

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:34:45 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

16 amps sounds *way* too high.

I wasn't really paying that much attention, it may have been 6. I
wasn't sure what it meant, it was just a number flying by on the
system check.

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:34:10 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/22/16 2:21 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced.
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.


I'm so glad our county builds and maintains a number of indoor and
outdoor pools, and maintains them properly. The Edward T. Hall Aquatics
Center, with an indoor ten-lane, 50-meter pool with a diving well as
well as therapy and leisure pools and toddler pools and several exercise
rooms, is only a couple of minutes from the house. Every time I've been
there, I've noticed the pool maintenance folks checking the water
chemistry in all the pools at least once an hour. It's a great facility,
with lots of parking, nice locker rooms, snacks, and instructors, if you
need them, and ongoing therapy programs.

Great as long as you like a public pool. City folks ;-)

I like being able t just step out the back door and take a dip, day or
night. I doubt you are skinny dipping there either.

or is that chunky dunking ;-)

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:11:04 -0500, Califbill
wrote:


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.

On 4/23/16 12:46 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:34:10 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/22/16 2:21 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:44:28 -0400 (EDT), fire man
wrote:

Wrote in message:
I am watching Henc's pool again after he went back to Europe. It was
greener than Kermit the frog the other day. I am still not convinced.
I bumped up the cell current after I got it cleaned up.


Its green Algae season. Use shock, algae killer, and scrub walls.

I brushed it and fixed the broken pool cleaner.


I'm so glad our county builds and maintains a number of indoor and
outdoor pools, and maintains them properly. The Edward T. Hall Aquatics
Center, with an indoor ten-lane, 50-meter pool with a diving well as
well as therapy and leisure pools and toddler pools and several exercise
rooms, is only a couple of minutes from the house. Every time I've been
there, I've noticed the pool maintenance folks checking the water
chemistry in all the pools at least once an hour. It's a great facility,
with lots of parking, nice locker rooms, snacks, and instructors, if you
need them, and ongoing therapy programs.

Great as long as you like a public pool. City folks ;-)

I like being able t just step out the back door and take a dip, day or
night. I doubt you are skinny dipping there either.

or is that chunky dunking ;-)


The thought of old farts skinny dipping in it is yet another reason to
not have a pool!