I always try to rinse off before jumping in but no one else does and that's probably due to the YMCA when I lived in Canada always made you do it so it makes sense. I'll probably put in an outdoor shower then I'll be able to tell everyone to rinse off without feeling like a control freak.
This is a great video. We have made the pool cover mistake when we get busy or we get a long period of bad weather and it often leads to an algae outbreak. Especially this year when it coincided with the death of our pump.
Thanks for the video. I have an auto cover on my pool and a pool enclosure. Last year, I would close the cover at night but noticed a white film formed on top of the pool after opening (12-13 hrs). Slime, mold or something. I started using a AquaFinesse tablets which solved the problem in a couple of days. Hope this helps someone.
I thought solar blankets were entirely for warming the water in the pool, which I never felt the need for. I did not know they were actually designed to be used at night to prevent chemical loss... very interesting!
If you want to reduce evaporation, wouldn't it make more sense to cover when the sun shines on the pool? I'm in AZ, so most swimming is in early morning or evening/night. Midday, I can't walk barefoot from my patio to the pool without risking 2nd* burns!
You normally would have a cover with sections seamed on which you fold out after you unroll the main cover. You can do these yourself with an oversized cover cut to fit or a smaller cover where you seam on the added sections. Even if you don't get 100% coverage you are still getting benefits
Hey steve, let me ask a question. Current setup has a FS pump and I'm going to be changing that out for a VS pump for the power savings. In some of your previous videos, you gave samples of schedules on running a VS pump. My question is, why not run the pump at a slow setting 24/7 once you determine the rpm needed to cycle the pool capacity 3x daily? I don't understand the purpose of running it at fast speed for a few hours and then reducing it down to slow speed
The pool is more dynamic than needing one speed. Heaters need more flow, especially heat pumps that need long hours of operation. Plus skimmers will function better to clear floating debris at higher flow rates, as does diffusion of clean, filtered water into the pool. Every pool has different needs but most will need/benefit from a schedule that has different flow rates versus one low-and-slow rpm that you run 24/7. Some pools could do this, and it would be the most cost efficient way to run a pump...but not if the quality of the pool water is suffering as a result
