Damn pool!
My brother - argh! - half the pool empty this morning...
When we set up the pool this year, my brother decided that having a valve to empty out extra pool water was a good idea. I didn't pay it much mind, until last niht.
It rained. Pool was up three inches higher than normal.
He used the valve. Didn't say anything. Pool water was emptying out.
I noticed it, and shut the valve (as the levels had gone down by then).
This morning, I get up and can't believe what I see: half of the pool water was MISSING!
He went off to work before I could rant at him, atlhough I think he heard me grumbling through the house.
I've since spent all morning so far refilling the pool and throwing whatever chemicals I can find at it. We have well water and I DON'T want yellow water coming in.
ARGH! As Charlie Brown once said.
I threw washing soda in it to raise the ph, as much bleach as I could find, now once its filled I'll have to LOWER the ph and probably raise it yet again just to get things back to a normal, healthy pool.
Ugh. Stupid valve. and my brother, who is normally smart about such things, I'm sure simply forgot -- but what a thing to forget.
argh!!!!!! Now my pool looks like a washing machine. It'll clear up but until then...
Ken http://free.naplesplus.us
44It rained. Pool was up three inches higher than normal.
He used the valve. Didn't say anything. Pool water was emptying out.
I noticed it, and shut the valve (as the levels had gone down by then).
This morning, I get up and can't believe what I see: half of the pool water was MISSING!
He went off to work before I could rant at him, atlhough I think he heard me grumbling through the house.
I've since spent all morning so far refilling the pool and throwing whatever chemicals I can find at it. We have well water and I DON'T want yellow water coming in.
ARGH! As Charlie Brown once said.
I threw washing soda in it to raise the ph, as much bleach as I could find, now once its filled I'll have to LOWER the ph and probably raise it yet again just to get things back to a normal, healthy pool.
Ugh. Stupid valve. and my brother, who is normally smart about such things, I'm sure simply forgot -- but what a thing to forget.
argh!!!!!! Now my pool looks like a washing machine. It'll clear up but until then...
Ken http://free.naplesplus.us
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