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Poolflood

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  1. 9 hours ago, milkman said:

    So my pool builder is coming for pool school in a few days. It has taken them three weeks! I have some finish concerns mainly related to plaster overspray on the glass tile. Is this to be expected or should I have them scrub it clean? They also conveniently forgot to install the lid for the auto fill when they poured the pool deck. Do they make a lid that will retrofit into concrete?

    Tell them to clean plaster ovwrspray.  Should be able to take off.  They should provide lid.  If acrylic spray deck, they should paint to match as well.

  2. 7 hours ago, elfenix said:

    airlines are essentially unprofitable over the long term as an industry.  have been since their inception.  they'd gotten a good thing going for themselves between industry consolidation and managing to sell damn near every seat there for a couple decades after 9/11.  but then 2020 happened and here we are again. 

    This doesn't seem realistic.   You have backup?

  3. 2 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    She burnt the water one time trying to make ramen noodles. I'm the Bobby Flay of this household. Seriously if that woman ever offered to cook me something I would be afraid. Where did you get your set up? I've been on lowes, home depot and Bestbuy most of the afternoon and I can't find shit. It's either cheap junk for $350 or $7k for a single burner KitchenAid. I already have a 4 burner Blackstone and figured I can have the guys set that one in, but I'm going to need a new grill and an outdoor under-the-counter style refrigerator as well. Thanks, I'll hang up and listen,

    Bull, lyon and RCS are some common, solid grills.  Don't go big box.  

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  4. 6 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    Alright because evidently we have all this money to burn since my wife stays home now and doesn't work and the fucking pool wasn't enough of a drain on my bank account, we now need an outdoor kitchen down by the pool. Who here has one? 

    Outdoor kitchen just means she's tired of cooking for your ass.  But seriously.   Got one.  Love it.  

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  5. 3 hours ago, Okie State said:
    3 hours ago, PantsTent said:
    I think 3200rpm is full speed for mine and it is too loud.  I run mine 10am to 6pm.  I believe its 2800 for 1st and last hour for better skimming, and 2300 rpm the rest which is really quiet. Who knows if that's enough to "turn the pool over"...I don't think that's important.  As long as your pool stays clean or you run it long enough for the SWG to make enough chlorine then it's enough pump time.

    Yeah mine was 3200 for about 10 hours a day when I moved in and it was pretty damn loud. Dialed it back to 2400 and it was much better, but didn't seem to be skimming enough. I think I'll do a combo of high/med/low and see how that goes.

    Do higher RPM'S during heat of day and slower either side of that.

    I believe those motors are rated for very high RPM's.  The VS motors are not your parent's pool equipment. 

  6. 4 minutes ago, Okie State said:
    1 hour ago, Poolflood said:
    This time of year 6 hours high.  Usualy 10 - 4pm,  4-10pm on medium.  10 pm - 10 am at about 25%.  When we fit fall through winter back high speed down to 75%.
     

    Thanks, I'll tweak the settings. I actually didn't have it running at all overnight. Is it better to have it going 24/7 I guess? Still learning all this stuff.

    At that speed you're consuming about 100w of electricity and still have water flow and filtration.  I have same pump.  Lasted 10 years til freeze.

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  7. 10 hours ago, Okie State said:

    We bought the house in December so it was already here. I messed with the settings and dialed back the rpms so it's not as bad, but I need to actually do the math to figure out what speed I should be running it at to turn the pool over. Never enough time to do anything though.

    This time of year 6 hours high.  Usualy 10 - 4pm,  4-10pm on medium.  10 pm - 10 am at about 25%.  When we fit fall through winter back high speed down to 75%.

     

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  8. 5 hours ago, Okie State said:

    So how loud is 'normal' for a Hayward variable speed pump? Mine seems pretty loud. Pool guys said it normally means it's about to go out, but they're also idiots so thought I'd ask.

    Also seems like it would be pretty easy to replace myself as long as I get another Hayward VS model. Any downside to that?

    Have you had it since new?  Has the sound changed dramatically? 

    28 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Mine is louder than I’d have thought, since brand new.  It’s doesn’t make any concerning noises, but it’s a lot louder than I had expected.  

    If its a nuisance drop the high from 100% to 85 or 90%

  9. 6 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

    I could see SEC  going to 20 as a result of the recent moves.

    West :

    Texas, OU, OSU, TAMU, ARK, Mizzou, LSU, Tech, Baylor, TCU, UH

    East:

    UF, UGA, Bama, Auburn, MSU, Ole Miss, UK, USC, TN, Vandy

    9 conf games, final 4 playoff , Im guessing top 2 division winners and perhaps 2 at large (in case one division is top heavy)

     

     

  10. 10 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    All aggy needs to do is (similar to the provisional admission for borderline students if they agree to be a corps turd situation) auction off admission to be a real, authentic, genuine aggy to Blinndergarten kids if they agree to pay bloated rent at the Redneck Riviera. They'd fill that thing up with kids from Cy Fair, Katy, Klein and Conroe ISDs alone. It's not as if there is some sort of academic integrity at stake here.

    You're welcome aggy and Park West

    Blinndergarten.  Wow.  Fucking awesome.

  11. On 6/28/2022 at 10:24 PM, TexEx15 said:

    How do you manage your CYA using tabs that much?

    I never add CYA on fresh fills, don't use tabs from leslies and rarely add tabs through fall to winter.   But brass tacks - CYA goes to shit in 2 years it takes 4, maybe 5 hours of drain and fill to rectify?  And there are a fuckton of clean, clear pools running over 150.

  12. General response to TFP and salt water systems.  

    Aside from my industry experience I've had a pool in my backyard for a decade.  I have a VS pump, an over-sized cartridge filter, robotic cleaner and a POS rainbow chlorinator.  We spend MAYBE 30 minutes a WEEK fucking around with the pool.  It's usually on Sunday after spending the day in the pool (so we're drunk when we do it).  Keep tabs in the chlorinator, shock the pool once a week and check the pH.  You can mind-fuck water chemistry and if you want to putz with the pool, cool.  Hire a service company and it's going to cost ~200/month and they are going to spend 30 minutes cleaning the pool, adjusting pH, adding tabs and shocking the pool.  

    If your pool gets a bunch of leaves etc, in the pool, that changes the calculus, but typically not by much.  

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