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  1. 18 hours ago, bularry1 said:

    something I can check that will hold 6 to 12 bottles?  Ideally you'd loan it to me, but I'll buy it if someone has one they don't need anymore.

     

    I know, this is random.

    The question is where are you going and how many of the bottles are you willing to give as payment.

  2. 2 hours ago, Quagmire said:

    I would consider a heat pump over gas. We have an ultra temp 120, it doesn’t heat as fast as gas , but it’s about 1/5 the cost in electricity .

    Few weekends ago pool was around 65, turned it in Thursday night and by Friday evening it was around 90.

    Specs show it uses 5kwh, so for about 48 hours of use costs me 20 bucks, I don’t really notice much difference in my electric bill. For gas it would probably be 5x as much .

    Only thing I wish I had was the model that can cool the water as well.

    Gas heaters will cost you about $100 to heat for a weekend.

    Heat pumps are significantly less to operate but cost more up front, figure 40+%.  Kick in another 15% for a heat/cool model.  If you want to heat for christmas and it's really cold the heat pump wont work effectively below ~40 degrees.  

    In Texas just make sure you use hayward, pentair, jandy or aquacal.  There are other manufacturers but they don't have the support in the market if something goes wrong.

  3. 10 hours ago, Quagmire said:

    I have a Pentair easy touch panel , really want the WiFi kit but it’s about 400 bucks, for 100 worth of a part.

    wonder if there are 3rd party options that would work, would be nice to control stuff from the phone .

    Nothing third party.  Or nothing that i would trust to interface with the automation you have.

  4. 1 hour ago, Machinator said:

    He already said in a press conference that Beck would be calling plays in the spring game.

     

    45 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    The play calling for Spring ball will be very vanilla, so it won’t matter 

    Hope the conversation went along the lines of "Alright shit head.  Make it good because this may be the last time you call plays ever."

  5. 6 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

    Checking in here. I used to have salt water and they are way easier to maintain chemically. Acid and salt were all I needed. Now acid is out but have to watch alkalinity, pH, chlorine, and especially Cc. It's very easy to get a problem with higher CYA as it appears to feed algae as well as stabilize chlorine levels.

    I will post some pics but no way I can do salt as I have a large area of limestone.

    The CYA stabilizes the chlorine so it isn't as affected by the sun and burn off.  Typically is salt pools you want to keep CYA levels higher as your not adding more in with each dose of tabs.  

    Tab pools you want lower, i try to keep my pool closer to 30 ppm.  A high cya level can lead to chlorine lock, which is no bueno.  

  6. 2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Hugo’s School of Trolling 

     

    Trolling is largely subjective.  What appears as a troll to one person can easily appear as benign snarky sarcasm and/or unpleasant truths to another.

    There are many tactics a troll can use.  Most posters have done some trolling at some point, and that’s okay.  It’s like fighting in hockey matches, it’s part of the game and it happens.  

    Moreover, not all trolling is nefarious.  Trolls can be entertaining and funny.  It’s all about perspective.

    However, at their core, most trolls are attention whores.  They love attention, even if it’s negatively charged.  They are also great for clicks, sadly.

     

    A look at the different types of Trolls:

     

    Flamer Troll - uses lots of hate rhetoric and ad hominem attacks.  These are the name calling bullies.  They celebrate the misfortune of others (haha liberal tears!  Fuck everyone who doesn’t share my opinion!  They should all be banned and not allowed to vote or speak!  Ship them back to Africa!) also known as the insult troll.  

    Concern Troll - You mad bro?  You seem upset?  Why so serious?  Just asking questions?

    Ignorant Troll - pretends to be uninformed and dumb in the hopes other posters call out their stupidity only to escalate the dialogue into a broken shouting match or rhetorical circles of dialogue.

    Contrarian Troll - defends radically unpopular positions just to stir the pot and be divisive. 

    Sport Troll - (one of my favorites) posts short and cutting criticisms usually targeted to enrage specific posters.  The sport troll is the snarky asshole.

    Know-it-all Troll -  the seem to be an expert on everything and their opinion is superior to everyone else’s on every topic.  Dissenting opinions will be treated as idiotic and should be disregarded.

    Spammer Troll - Phelgm (he’s harmless)

    Long Winded Troll - intentionally makes lengthy posts to give the appearance of legitimacy but the content is usually very uninformed and/or logically ridiculous. 

    Derail Troll - intentionally injects provocative post completely unrelated to the topic and progressively diverts the conversation to something completely off topic.

    The Victim Troll -  argues that there is an ongoing conspiracy against them from other posters and/or admins.  They are forever persecuted and never guilty of anything.  “It wasn’t me, it was the one armed man! and the shaggy liberal cabal!”  “The Deep State/George Soros are in cahoots to use antifa and black lives matter to overthrow the government! Ermagerd!” Lots of unwitting ignorant victim trolls out there today.

    Kremlin Troll - full arsenal of trolling tactics including character assassination of posters they don’t agree with.  They rage against others with inflammatory ad hominem attacks.  They will accuse others of being paid posters or bots.  They push conspiracy theories like pizzagate and QAnon.  Sadly, there are many posters out there that fit the Kremlin troll profile, unwittingly.

     

     

    As a general rule, the best way to combat trolls is to simply not engage; ever.  

    Don’t quote, don’t debate, don’t bitch.  Just let the troll posts sit there twisting in wind with zero responses.  This crushes the troll’s spirit because at their core, they are attention whores, nothing more.

    In conclusion, almost all posters have trolled in some form or another, even if unwittingly/unintentionally.  

     

    Pos rep as this wasn't from your twitter feed.

  7. 1 hour ago, GlenFromTheMailRoom said:

    Mother effin' this.  Except our pool inspector failed to mention our catch basin for the infinity edge being too small for the pool.  Looks like we'll be installing rainwater collection to avoid massive water bills.

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    Very nice.  Was it a separate inspection for the pool, or a home inspector, that did the pool as well.  Hydraulics on those are tricky

  8. 10 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Grew up with a fresh water pool in texas, don't have one now, but am considering it for the next house. Is it better to buy a house with the pool installed or build it after you purchase?

    If you find the right house with the right pool, buy it.  If it isn't too old you're not likely to have many issues.  Have it inspected by a pool guy.  Not just the home inspector. 

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  9. Most are made by one of two manufacturers and then the retailer or builder buys them through distribution.  So its not like academy buying a truckload at a time.  Every company that buys marks them up.  If you get one online you can probably save some $ but make sure that the post, or posts, will fit into the anchor(s).  Most of the posts are 1.9"OD.

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