Algae....

[Unlocked]

..in the pool, is not cool. :eyebrow:

[tous]

It's better
when it's wetter.

[rhans405]

It won't be seen
With chlorine.

[Unlocked]

Chrystal water
is better
when it's hotter
than green black muck
that is
seriously Yuck!

[pesticidal]

chlorine, you see,
will mask the pee

[tous]

chlorine, you see,
will mask the pee


So you're the fellow
that makes it turn yellow?

[Unlocked]

You must steer clear
When pesti swims near.

[pesticidal]

So you're the fellow
that makes it turn yellow?


Listen, you clown,
Watch out for the brown.

[okie]

chlorine, you see,
will mask the pee

:rofl::rofl:

[okie]

So you're the fellow
that makes it turn yellow?

:rofl::rofl:

[okie]

<--------Doesn't have an pool:crying:

[pesticidal]

<--------Doesn't have an pool:crying:


That's ok. Just pee in the toilet.





:rofl:

[sweetatergal]

<--------- Has a pool......Hubby is working on getting the "gunk" out of it!

Just about done, now he needs to take the water and get it tested to see what kind/how much chemicals need to go in. :supergrin:

[okie]

That's ok. Just pee in the toilet.





:rofl:

I do have one them:rofl::rofl:

[okie]

<--------- Has a pool......Hubby is working on getting the "gunk" out of it!

Just about done, now he needs to take the water and get it tested to see what kind/how much chemicals need to go in. :supergrin:

Far out swim party at Jenn's:kiss::hugs::hearts:

[Unlocked]

It's taken me a little while but I finally got our cleared up. Must of been a hole in the cover over the winter. :ack:

[okie]

It's taken me a little while but I finally got our cleared up. Must of been a hole in the cover over the winter. :ack:

Pool party:headscratch::supergrin:

[Unlocked]

Pool party:headscratch::supergrin:

Come on over Okie. Supposed to get in the 90's here soon. Good swimmin weather. :suntan:

[sweetatergal]

I stuck my hand in the water yesterday while Hubby was vaccuming it out. Ours felt pretty warm already.

Nothing really fancy, just something the kids can get in and have a good time and I can be on my float "laying out" with them. :thumbsup:

[Unlocked]

I stuck my hand in the water yesterday while Hubby was vaccuming it out. Ours felt pretty warm already.


Ours takes forever to warm up. I need to get the solar cover on it. Is your an inground?

[sweetatergal]

Ours takes forever to warm up. I need to get the solar cover on it. Is your an inground?

No, nothing really fancy. Just one of those little frame pools (sold at WalMart and Sam's). We do have an above ground pool that my SIL gave to us (5ft deep...it is oval), but we have to get a new liner for it before we can put it up. We did go ahead and hook the pump up to his frame pool that we have to make sure the pump still worked. So far so good.

[Unlocked]

Ours is a little above ground but it's nice to cool off in and real nice to look at. I'm thinkin about gettin one of those fountain attachments for it.

[sweetatergal]

The one we have now is like this one:


http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa239/sweetatergal/pool.jpg

But with a much bigger pump on it. The first year we tried the little one, but could not keep the water clear. This pump for the bigger above ground pool works GREAT!!!!!!

[ChuteTheMall]

It would be very uncouth
to toss in a Baby Ruth

[sweetatergal]

Far out swim party at Jenn's:kiss::hugs::hearts:


Come on over Okie! We need to get together for some shooting and good food!!!!!!


:hugs: :wavey:

[Unlocked]

I know several people that had trouble with the small pumps on those pools. I haven't seen one that was near big enough for the pool.

Here's mine before I was done landscaping. It's about as much pool as I feel like taking care of.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i162/mautdr/100_0291.jpg

[Unlocked]

If yer hubby is handy with a shovel he can have that above ground up in no time.

It's not that hard.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i162/mautdr/100_0215.jpg

[rhans405]

<--- Has a pool.
<--- Been swimming for 2 months now. Pool temp is now in the upper 80s. I loses some of it's freshness when the water gets hot.

[sweetatergal]

Yep, he's pretty handy. He has talked about getting a bobcat out there to dig out for the new one only because it is oval (I think we found out it was the biggest of the oval ones made.

He's reading up on how to run the outlet to the shed so that we don't have to have an extention cord run across the yard for the pump.

We have priced the new liner and looks like it is going to cost us around $400.

Our Chocolate Lab has figured out how to climb the latter and get in. We see her "swimming" alot when she is out. :rofl:

[Unlocked]

<--- Has a pool.
<--- Been swimming for 2 months now. Pool temp is now in the upper 80s. I loses some of it's freshness when the water gets hot.

I just checked ours and its 72 degrees. I'll put the cover on it tomorrow.

[DepChief]

Just about done, now he needs to take the water and get it tested to see what kind/how much chemicals need to go in. :supergrin:

You do know that they sell testing kits for about $10 so you can do that at home, right?

:wavey:

[Unlocked]

You do know that they sell testing kits for about $10 so you can do that at home, right?

:wavey:

I use the little HTH strips.

[vote Republican]

Unlocked's pool can be found
above the ground
but not way up in the air
it's too heavy to stay there
this poem is.... ?
so you must acquit

[AJ Dual]

Sterile, pee is, from someone who's healthy.
So no need for too many chemicals that make you less wealthy.
Rouge stool in the pool is seriously uncool.
Produced by some untrained child's rear is what I truly fear.
It makes me go :outtahere: should it float near.

[kcb]

Pool is fixed and water is sparkling clean! :dancingbanana:

No ALGAE!!!

Water is STILL a little cool for me...Maybe not after the past two days....it's
been HOT HOT!!!

Should Check it out!

Summer will be spent in the pool!

:thumbsup:

[sweetatergal]

You do know that they sell testing kits for about $10 so you can do that at home, right?

:wavey:


Yep, but our pool place will test it for free and give us a print out of what chemicals we need to put in and how much of it.

:wavey:

[kcb]

Yep, but our pool place will test it for free and give us a print out of what chemicals we need to put in and how much of it.

:wavey:

We have a kit, too. BUT we also take a sample of our water to our pool supply company, too. They also give us a print out of what we need...., too!

I feel more comfortable letting our pool company analyze the water.

If you don't keep the water in good balance, it can damage the pump and the pool.

[Unlocked]

The poetic license in this thread is running ramped....

[kcb]

I use the little HTH strips.

We have two liquid solutions that we place in "test tubes" so to speak, with
pool water, with a color scale to determine certain things about the water.

[kcb]

Sterile, pee is, from someone who's healthy.
So no need for too many chemicals that make you less wealthy.
Rouge stool in the pool is seriously uncool.
Produced by some untrained child's rear is what I truly fear.
It makes me go :outtahere: should it float near.

There is reportedly a chemical that you can put in your pool to enable you to
tell if someone has.....

I don't know how true that is....

Would be funny at this point because mostly just adults utilize our pool!

:supergrin:

[sweetatergal]

We have two liquid solutions that we place in "test tubes" so to speak, with
pool water, with a color scale to determine certain things about the water.


We used something like that for our fish tanks! :rofl:

[kcb]

We used something like that for our fish tanks! :rofl:


:shocked:

We bought it at our local pool service company!

:rofl:

[sweetatergal]

:shocked:

We bought it at our local pool service company!

:rofl:

Well, testing water in a fish tank is similar to pool water testing......but different chemicals go into the fish tank. :supergrin:

[tous]

Roses are red,
voilets are blue.
According to 'tatergal,
fish go in the pool.

:shocked:

[sweetatergal]

Roses are red,
voilets are blue.
According to 'tatergal,
fish go in the pool.

:shocked:


:rofl:


Well, you know that sure is a big cement pond in the back yard!
:rofl:


Actually our lab likes to swim in the pool too. :supergrin:

[digitspaw]

"Swimmers are like T-bags...you never know how strong they are till you put them in water"

[ChuteTheMall]

Yep, but our pool place will test it for free and give us a print out of what chemicals we need to put in and how much of it.


Nice of them to append
a list of what you should spend

Wouldn't it be funny
if they wanted your money?

[AJ Dual]

There is reportedly a chemical that you can put in your pool to enable you to
tell if someone has.....

I don't know how true that is....

Would be funny at this point because mostly just adults utilize our pool!

:supergrin:

Urban legend, and used to make kids hold it in.

The main thing "chemical X" could react with to make a tell-tale purple cloud would be the ammonia/nitrates/urea, and to some degree or another that's just in our sweat too.

Although SAY you did it, and then put a little packet of purple dye in someone's swimming trunks, that would be a good gag. :supergrin:

[kcb]

Urban legend, and used to make kids hold it in.

The main thing "chemical X" could react with to make a tell-tale purple cloud would be the ammonia/nitrates/urea, and to some degree or another that's just in our sweat too.

Although SAY you did it, and then put a little packet of purple dye in someone's swimming trunks, that would be a good gag. :supergrin:

:rofl:


I "think" a lot of people I know bought into that! (Still do!) We'll have to try that!

Thanks for the info! :rofl:

[Historian]

..in the pool, is not cool. :eyebrow:

(singing)
Kelp, when you need somebody...kelp! Not just any algae body!


It could be worse. Have you got frogs yet?

[ryanm]

Come on over Okie! We need to get together for some shooting and good food!!!!!!


:hugs: :wavey:

Sounds like a plan. We can help chuck get rid of his extension cord, too.

[Unlocked]

It could be worse. Have you got frogs yet?



No. I've got mine cleared up. But I've seen one that bad once. :alex:

[sweetatergal]

No. I've got mine cleared up. But I've seen one that bad once. :alex:

That just gave me the willies thinking about it! :shocked:

[Historian]

That just gave me the willies thinking about it! :shocked:

My parents called code enforcement on a house across the street from them. The renters let the pool go so far it was black in color...they had snakes. It was Florida.

[B. Somm]

..."Having smoking/non-smoking sections in a restaurant is like having peeing/non-peeing sections in a swimming pool!"


B. :whistling: :supergrin:

[B. Somm]

Why did the pool filter call in sick?











...His fibromyalgae was acting up!







B. :outtahere:

[sweetatergal]

My parents called code enforcement on a house across the street from them. The renters let the pool go so far it was black in color...they had snakes. It was Florida.

Did they find any gators in there?

That is just gross!