Swimming pools blog

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• 1 janis_40 // Dec 29, 2003 at 3:45 am

  Retta,
  What type of cover do you use?

• 2 robbie_50 // Dec 29, 2003 at 8:07 pm

  Heavy duty dark blue canvas tarp .I guess that how to describe it.Had
  problem with water build up on top.Lots of rain down here.Affraid it
  will draw mosquitoes.
  Keep The Faith
  Retta
  (-38.2)

• 3 janis_40 // Dec 30, 2003 at 6:42 pm

  Get a cover pump. Should be available at pool supply or hardware store.
  Does the cover go up the sides onto the deck? Is there somthing to seal the
  edges?
  Ken

• 4 robbie_50 // Dec 31, 2003 at 11:04 am

  Never though about a pump thanks.The edges are real tight to the stone
  deck.It is the water on top that is the problem.We get a lot of heavy
  rains here.
  Keep The Faith
  Retta
  (-38.2)

• 5 janis_40 // Jan 1, 2004 at 9:39 am

  You must remember I used to live in Alexandria when England AFB was still
  open I know you get rain. A small cover pump in the middle. Just leave it
  there and plug it in when the rains come.
  Ken

• 6 robbie_50 // Jan 2, 2004 at 2:01 am

  We have a pump in the shed I wonder if we could use that.Will check on
  it?When do you close your pool ?
  Keep The Faith
  Retta
  (-38.2)

• 7 janis_40 // Jan 3, 2004 at 12:36 am

  Before I moved from Tucson, AZ to Florissant, MO we never really did close
  our pool. it was warm enough to go swimming into late October or early
  November if you kept the solar cover on it. The house in Florissant does not
  currently have a pool but the HOA does have a nice one.
  Ken

• 8 janis_40 // Jan 5, 2004 at 11:01 am

  My wife enjoys the moderate temp even though she is from Tucson and I must
  admit I do also. We visited my parents who live in this area at Christmas
  time when it was very cold but there was no snow on the ground yet. She got
  her first taste on the way back to Tucson when we ran into a snow storm in
  Oklahoma. I was driving and we all watched people do the freeway ballet for
  100 miles in blowing snow. Wow! did you see that they did a tripple before
  hitting that Tempo. We will see how she does on 270 going to work when there
  has been a fresh snow. She may want to join you in Arizona again.
  Ken
  And for all of you wondering what all of this has to do with swimming pools,
  NOTHING!

• 9 janis_40 // Jan 6, 2004 at 6:29 am

  Where are you at!

• 10 janis_40 // Jan 7, 2004 at 1:58 am

  You know what they call a swimming pool in Kansas during the winter?

• 11 janis_40 // Jan 8, 2004 at 4:55 pm

  Yes the freeway ballet. When some bozo who does not know how to drive in
  snow does a tripple spin followed by a double flip and ends up killing
  someone else before taking himself out of the show.

• 12 janis_40 // Jan 9, 2004 at 12:23 pm

  You got it!

• 13 janis_40 // Jan 11, 2004 at 3:20 am

  Those safety covers are pricy and hard to put on are they not? Next pool
  will have a retractable soft cover. Costs about twice as much but factored
  into the total cost of the pool is not much more and can be opened with a
  touch of a button.

• 14 janis_40 // Jan 14, 2004 at 9:14 am

  Exactly!

• 15 janis_40 // Jan 15, 2004 at 4:43 am

  To far north for me.

• 16 evelyn_200 // Jan 16, 2004 at 4:37 pm

  Hi.
  Can we please email each other privately for the “where are you froms,” How
  ya doings,” and jokes, etc. I get an email for every post, and when you come
  back from vacation, it is a lot of mail to go through to see if it has any
  swimming pool content, or a private email posted publicly.
  Thanks so much!
  Bob

• 17 Samantha Tresa // Dec 5, 2005 at 5:56 am

  We bought a big exercise ball from Walmart and put it in the centre of
  teh pool. I sort of macramed ropes on it forst.

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