Can my pool stay home alone for 10 days?

[ChuckD]

Anna, is your pump 110V? Mine is and I use a <$20 timer from ACE Hardware. I feel strongly that some circulation is important and even if you only run it for a couple hours a day it can help.

I think you could get away with pushing the floater out away from the side of the pool before lowering the cover on it.

Chuck

[AnnaK]

Anna, is your pump 110V? Mine is and I use a <$20 timer from ACE Hardware. I feel strongly that some circulation is important and even if you only run it for a couple hours a day it can help.

Yes, it's a 110V but it's hard wired. There's no way of plugging in a timer. Eventually, we'll hire an electrician to either wire in a timer or to change the setup to a plug-in, but for now, things are as they are

I think you could get away with pushing the floater out away from the side of the pool before lowering the cover on it.

Ok, thanks. A load off my mind.

[Spensar]

10 days can be a long time, despite the best laid plans, etc., you can easily be looking at a discoloured or green pool. Lots of variable, including hot spells. What I do is buy the regular sized bleach containers and have whoever is feeding the cats while I'm away put in a jug every two days. Mark dates on them with marker if you want. The idea is to keep it really quick and easy for them, and I know the chlorine level is good. For this period of time I figure keeping the Chlorine high enough to prevent a bloom is the #1 thing, and I can balance out PH, etc. after I'm back.

This is for an inground 32x16, so if yours is smaller, space the jug to 3 days or whatever you need. I also invite them to use the pool as much as they want, as I like to have it stirred up. My pump is on 24/7 since I don't have a timer. It's cheaper and easier than having to shock, filter and vacum a pool back from a mess.