Yay!!!New pool!!!

[May76]

I get a ton of bugs in my pool, have to clean them out every day. We have an actual streetlight as a security light in our backyard though. Shines right down on the pool at night. Guess we are pretty much stuck with the bugs unless we tell the utility co to shut the light off... :/

[BigDave]

@May76: can you cover the pool at night? 22' is a lot of cover to handle every day.

[PoolDoc]

Another option -- admittedly a bit of a handy-man trick -- is to make and mount a screen under the light, that would shadow the pool.

[May76]

Hmmm...might try looking into something like that, thanks!

[Watermom]

This what I use to cover my pool. Admittedly, there is no real convenient way to handle that big of a piece of vinyl, but this is easier than anything else I have used previously.

www.solarroller.com

[May76]

Thanks, I'll have to look into it more, but anything has to be better than trying to help my husband put a cover on. Talk about away to get aggravated at each other lol!

[jo3ponies]

Know what you mean....I pull my pool cover over from the inside and float it across (my round pool) on floaties, then step out and pull it the rest of the way and tie it down. Makes it easier for one person and I don't have to ask for help. I just make sure I leave it where I can reach it without getting out of the pool.

[May76]

Weellll we've only actually used the cover once so far(anticipated rainstorm) which took both my husband and I...honestly I'd rather scoop out a ton of bugs every day then go thru that every night lol.

[jo3ponies]

I don't have a light near the pool but being rural I get a few of those, too. I don't mind those and clean them out with no trouble. The bugs I don't like are the ones that want to take up residence in my pool....water bugs. They are too fast to catch with the net and they bite you when you're swimming. Hoping the they are gone before the weather warms back up.

[jo3ponies]

New day....new reading...new problems. I tested this morning and my Chlorine is low, 1 on the test vial. Ph is 8.5...way too high. Water is clear and inviting but I don't know if it's safe to swim at this time. What should I do next? The temps are back in the 100s and I'm ready to swim!

Over the weekend I got tired of waiting for those silly 3" tablets to dissolve and poured some bottled Clorox in (2) to raise chorine levels and shock the water bugs.