On 4/23/16 10:01 AM, True North wrote:
On Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:53:33 UTC-3, wrote:
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.

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.


Four or five of our near neighbors with kids have nice pools, but
I rarely see anyone using them. I actually prefer to swim and splash
around in the real ocean, but our local county pools are convenient and
well-maintained.