Oh yes, forgot the old axiom, “open cold, close cold.” I live in CNY, open pool up April 30th (give or take a day depending on work schedule) every year. I close it in late October, near Halloween. With the addiction of a black plastic cover under the safety cover, the pool looks almost the same when opened as it does when it is closed. I don’t have to hammer it with chemicals like I did the first two years to got from green soup to clear. Only thing I make sure I do is keep frost protect mode programmed on the Pool pilot computer to make sure it starts running at night if temp goes down to freezing mark. Wife complains I open too early but the kids start using it within a week or two and the money saved from not having to buy extra chemicals or worse have pool guys come out is much higher than the pump cost to run it for the extra few weeks.
Do you kind of I ask where you got that reel for your solar cover? I have been looking for one that I do not have to anchor for a 40 by 20 Grecian I ground (which makes corners shorter where concrete is so the permanent ones would not work for me). Nice looking pool.
We actually removed the rails. They pop out of the anchors during the winter for the safety cover installation. We didn't like how confining they were so Safetron makes anchor hole plugs for that application.
Well, it depends really. I only did the electric, equipment upgrade and fence/landscaping. A pool company dug and installed the actual pool. For a decent price. I "could" have saved money by doing some of the rest and sub contracting out some things. But, in the end I think a job that big is best left to the professionals for my sanity. I was going to do the whole thing originally and I'm glad I didnt.
