Thread: pool water calculations

ahh pools.

above ground, if there is any steel in it dont go salt, if not then go salt, if you wish to fork out the bucks up front.

yes get your water teated at a pool shop, monthly over winter weekly in summer or when in use. 1 pee in a pool rule of thumb = $5 bucks in chemical, 1 dog in the pool = $10.

and yes over filter it, just leave it running.

if you are using dam water, get the phosphates tested as well, if the pool shop cant do that go to another. its cheep to use Di Clour and not the cheeper cal Hypo. Keep your PH low as posable or as close to 7.2 as you can, very important if you have brown eyes

alkalinity, is the single most important balance, keep that low and you kit will last longer and you will us a bit less chemical.

us a separate stabilizer not a mixed in one.

dont get caught out by buying algasides etc waste of money, or a good earner for the shop

Using dam water, you can clear it, but your going to overload your filter over the first few weeks. As your dam has a lot of colloidal material, its going to clog a sand filter quite quickly. Better off filling the pool, adding a flocculant to settle it and then slowly vacuuming out the sediment.
Then start up the filter with a higher chlorine dose and run it at a reduced flow thru the filter for a week or so.
You will need to backwash quite regularly, problem being everytime you refill, topping up with dam water is going to cloud it up again.

Any colloids that get into the filter will eventually crust up the top inch or so of the filter media and you will need to open the filter and break it up a bit.

I would have just used the dam as your pool and spent the cash on the Fender!!
If the dam has a smell to it, just stick in an aeration pump and maybe also a circulation pump between the two to cycle the water.

Cheers

Andrew.

PS, used to design filtration and treatment systems.

Originally Posted by clean32

Keep your PH low as possible or as close to 7.2 as you can, very important if you have brown eyes

How about just one?

thanks for the advice guys.
once it's full and clean i'll top up with tank water (clean) i just don't want to take the initial fill from the tank as it would probably leave us short for summer.
we don't have any kids but have 12 family members coming from wales for christmas, so have bought it for them really as we live +50,mins from the coast which is a bit far to be going everyday.
adam i have plenty of stockings but keep it quiet
andrew i've been told if i buy anymore rovers then i can walk - you got your's yet and wheres ya pics

Given all the problems of Dam water

.. as LOVEMYRANGIE / Andrew said .... adding a flocking agent to it is the go .. but to do that you have to get the pool water balanced (PH levels)


..... Just ring up a "Water carter" and have them deliver Fresh Water

IT WILL BE SO MUCH cheaper and easier than trying to clean Dirty, Muddy water


So who volunteered to clean the pool??

Mike

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

A yacht is considered a hole in water into which you throw money, never to be seen again. I have had a swimming pool. It is a hole in the ground into which you throw money. You have the good type of pool . Above ground. You can easily get rid of the bastard of a thing when your family's interest wanes. Usually when the kids hit fifteen or so and don't want to socialise with parents or stay at home.

You will learn (or re-learn) fitting skills. Pools have pumps and filters that need constant attention.

inground pools are easy to get rid of as well.......punch a hole in the bottom and fill with dirt..........well thats what a mate of mine did, the fill was cheap as it come from the new, bigger pool he built 10m closer to the fence

in 12 months of owning a saltwater pool it pretty much manages itself.....hardly spent a $,

If you spend all your time maintaining a pool then you are not doing it correctly, as for money wasting = read previous comment. There was an aboveground pool at our house when we bought it and apart from replacing the 15 year old knackered pump/filter it has hardly cost us anything. I let it turn to a swamp around easter and then clean it ready for summer about now- this year was a few weeks earlier due to the heatwave we had. All i add is 1 x 200g stabilized chlorine tablet a week (30k litre ) and its perfect, if i followed the advice of the local pool shop i'd still be trying to get it clean. I have a system and stick to it and the kids love having the pool, so do i after a hot day at work. My only real problem is being surrounded by gums i can get a lot of crap in it but again doesnt take long to clean it out. One day i might even see if i can get a fibreglass shell to replace our old pool.

I don't know what set up the pool haters have had in the past, but like Weeds, I have almost no trouble with my in ground pool.

It is salt water, has a big sand filter, auto timer, auto chlorination, auto pool cleaner, auto solar heating.

It is possibly about 2 hours a month if that to keep it up to scratch, and not a lot of money.

To put it in perspective, its about one one hundredth of the effort and expense of our Land Rovers