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Who has a pool...need advice
FrizzleFried:
My old man used to bring home Hydocloric acid from his work (Chrome plating) and put that in our concrete pool...
ChadTower:
Chrome plating... pfft... we all know he was in zombie disposal.
xar256:
--- Quote from: DrumAnBass on October 12, 2007, 02:54:13 pm ---Good tips guys. When you add shock at night, do you leave the filter running?
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Yep. Anything you're trying to kill off in your pool(algae, dead skin, various wastes), will be present in the filter as well. Ya wanna kill/burn as much of it as possible.
--- Quote from: DrumAnBass on October 12, 2007, 02:54:13 pm ---One other question - my pool was originally built with a sand filter rather than DE. How often should I change out the sand? I generally backwash it every other month. Haven't changed the sand since I have lived in the house - almost 4 yrs.
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If memory serves, it generally should be changed every 5 years.
bleargh:
--- Quote from: xar256 on October 15, 2007, 07:40:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrumAnBass on October 12, 2007, 02:54:13 pm ---One other question - my pool was originally built with a sand filter rather than DE. How often should I change out the sand? I generally backwash it every other month. Haven't changed the sand since I have lived in the house - almost 4 yrs.
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If memory serves, it generally should be changed every 5 years.
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Crap... and I've been changing mine every year... Not like it costs a fortune, though... $25 for a bag of filter sand each year is nothing compared to the cost of the other chemicals that have to go into the pool regularly.
Any reason to not change the filter sand each year?
xar256:
--- Quote from: bleargh on October 15, 2007, 07:56:01 pm ---Any reason to not change the filter sand each year?
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Yeah...You could spend that time working on a cab...Duh! :dizzy:
Seriously...It won't harm anything, but you won't see any particular benefit from it either. Kinda like changing your furnace filter every 2 weeks.
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