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marjon said:
The pool temp has been dropping quick, we now can’t hold it with the daytime sun so it’s a losing battle so the decision was made.

“Time to put the timer on the pump and forget it till next year“ please explain do you actually leave your pump on?
We remove pump and drain everything in the pump room.

J
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Really? We leave our pump to run for an hour per day, the reason being we once had to change the pump as it seized up, also it gives us the chance to filter the water albeit slowly.
To drain everything in the pump room would mean draining the massive sand filter thing which is the size of a world war two mine! Wouldn't want to do that as fear all sorts of yugh sh!t should we do so.
But am prepared to listen to any arguments against such action.
All I can say is that it seems to work and clean up of the pool once we get over here is not a big problem. The water stays crystal clear. did I forget to say we leave the electrolyser on too for the hour the pump runs?
I have never taken nor even sought advice on this, just worked on what I think is common sense. :(:(:(
 
kevstar said:
Oh you cheeky git haha I got a free kitchen today all appliances & integrated stainless microwave ect
6 months old just sold it for a grand & chucked in a free overlocker. :D
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Mate you really are a lucky cunt! I talked to you earlier about a secondhand or display kitchen for your camper thing. Is this what you've done?

Why did you sell it? Stupid question you do love having the spondulics in your sporran!!!
LOL!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Mate you really are a lucky cunt! I talked to you earlier about a secondhand or display kitchen for your camper thing. Is this what you've done?

Why did you sell it? Stupid question you do love having the spondulics in your sporran!!!
LOL!
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Haha yes I like having spondulics but I keep a hip flask full with Drambuie in it.
Ive teamed up with a mate to make furniture there is a wood workshop in the yard
im in that has all the machinery from the old boat building days. (all working)
He served his time in the wood shop & was blown away when I showed him it was still
all there so ive made an offer for all the equipment, First job 40 tables for outside a local pub
out of redwood. :cool:

Also bought 2 old railway carriages to convert into living accommodation then sell them.
Got an outside project to finish with him as his joiner found a new job.
Boaty stuff gets quiet in the winter after all the servicing is done so ive got loads to do now. :)
 
kevstar said:
Haha yes I like having spondulics but I keep a hip flask full with Drambuie in it.
Ive teamed up with a mate to make furniture there is a wood workshop in the yard
im in that has all the machinery from the old boat building days. (all working)
He served his time in the wood shop & was blown away when I showed him it was still
all there so ive made an offer for all the equipment, First job 40 tables for outside a local pub
out of redwood. :cool:

Also bought 2 old railway carriages to convert into living accommodation then sell them.
Got an outside project to finish with him as his joiner found a new job.
Boaty stuff gets quiet in the winter after all the servicing is done so ive got loads to do now. :)
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You are the archetypal bloke who falls into a sh!t pile and comes up smelling of roses! Fancy marking my lottery ticket?:):):):):):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Really? We leave our pump to run for an hour per day, the reason being we once had to change the pump as it seized up, also it gives us the chance to filter the water albeit slowly.
To drain everything in the pump room would mean draining the massive sand filter thing which is the size of a world war two mine! Wouldn't want to do that as fear all sorts of yugh sh!t should we do so.
But am prepared to listen to any arguments against such action.
All I can say is that it seems to work and clean up of the pool once we get over here is not a big problem. The water stays crystal clear. did I forget to say we leave the electrolyser on too for the hour the pump runs?
I have never taken nor even sought advice on this, just worked on what I think is common sense. :(:(:(
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You have to remember where we are, and the temps we can get.
After the pool was built we got the same company to come and close it for the winter (as we didn’t know).
Our sand filter is similar but mostly full of sand so not much water. We changed our sand this year. there is a drain port.

We Drain water to below ground & skimmer level, remove the pump, drain filter take off the lid and remove electrolyser. Water sits over winter with no movement and we still have a clear pool when we open, ok it needs treatment.
It has floats (ice breakers) placed in before covered.

We can get down too stupid minus and the pool top will get covered in ice. So things are a little different here.

If that’s what they do where you are then stick with it, but we dose it up and close it this way.

I am sure you have worked out how much 1hr/day on your pump (1kw?) compared to possibly having to change your 40k litres of water oh and 8 bags of salt costs. Just a thought;)

J
 
marjon said:
You have to remember where we are, and the temps we can get.
After the pool was built we got the same company to come and close it for the winter (as we didn’t know).
Our sand filter is similar but mostly full of sand so not much water. We changed our sand this year. there is a drain port.

We Drain water to below ground & skimmer level, remove the pump, drain filter take off the lid and remove electrolyser. Water sits over winter with no movement and we still have a clear pool when we open, ok it needs treatment.
It has floats (ice breakers) placed in before covered.

We can get down too stupid minus and the pool top will get covered in ice. So things are a little different here.

If that’s what they do where you are then stick with it, but we dose it up and close it this way.

I am sure you have worked out how much 1hr/day on your pump (1kw?) compared to possibly having to change your 40k litres of water oh and 8 bags of salt costs. Just a thought;)

J
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Mate as you say, it depends where you are. You obvs have a much more continental climate. We are at 600 metres but nowadays that means a lot less than it used to. We never need to worry about floats (ice breakers). When we come back to France we chuck two bags of salt in to allow for the flooding that has happened during the time we have been away, i.e. the dilution. We then take it from there as regards electrolysis and production. We have a friend in the village who has a pool of similar size, also salt, but he has a perspex roof thing. It means the water gets much hotter than ours but he seems to really suffer with algae and the water always seems to look green rather than the totally clear of ours.
Put it this way. Our method means when we arrive it costs us two bags of salt and a tiny amount of time before the pool is swimable, depending on temperature. So it is quick and simple.
Your method seems a bit more labour intensive but you save the electricity to power the pump and electrolyser for one hour a day.
Each to his own, you are happy we are happy!!!
It is, at the end of the day, bloody fab to have a pool big enough to swim proper lengths in when it is fuc cking hot or even not so hot. So I think we are both very happy with what we have !!!!
Never as a kid did I envisage going into a swimming pool supplier and saying ""What is the biggest pool you do?" and then just ordering it.
Still love it!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Your method seems a bit more labour intensive but you save the electricity to power the pump and electrolyser for one hour a day.
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It’s not that bad pump room done in an hour tops.

Stanleysteamer said:
It is, at the end of the day, bloody fab to have a pool big enough to swim proper lengths in when it is fuc cking hot
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Yep:):)

Stanleysteamer said:
Never as a kid did I envisage going into a swimming pool supplier and saying ""What is the biggest pool you do?" and then just ordering it.
Still love it!
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Same:)

We never planned a pool as we are reasonably close to the sea, but visiting friends got the better and now we love it. We actually had the hot tub in the BBQ area before the pool:D
J
 
marjon said:
It’s not that bad pump room done in an hour tops.



Yep:):)



Same:)

We never planned a pool as we are reasonably close to the sea, but visiting friends got the better and now we love it. We actually had the hot tub in the BBQ area before the pool:D
J
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The deal with wifey went as follows.
She loves heat, I am not keen.
So I said we had to be up high and have a pool, she agreed. We aren't near the sea and don't give a fu ck. (We are near the sea in the uk and never go there!)
When we go to the farmers market on a Monday evening during July/August in the town down the mountain, we enjoy it but fu ck it is hot. We drive back up into the cool and breathe a big sigh of relief.
We decided from the beginning to have the pool quite some distance from the house, which it is, so skinny dipping is fine as no one can see us even from the road that runs all along the top of our property. We have a pergola down there, and eventually there will be lights etc. So going to the pool is more of an event and friends who visit love it.
Funny thing is that no matter what route you take to having one, if you actually make the effort to think about it, it makes it more pleasurable, which seems to be the way both you and we have got there!
 
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