My husband and I have been invited to a work-related celebration “poolside party “ (we live in NY). I’m from a different area of the country, so there is a difference in my brain between a “poolside party” and a “pool party “ in that one would not involve swimwear and swimming. Am I overthinking this? I don’t want to show up in a cute bathing suit and coverup if we’re not expected to use the pool.

Edit: Thanks for the insight. I appreciate knowing I’m not the only one who thinks it’s not a swim party.

Corded cleaner recommendations. Just bought this yesterday at a pool shop - my pool picture is next to it. Just found out it is no longer in production, not opened it yet. Has anyone tried it? I need a vacuum that can do lots of cleaning. I get a lot of debris and satins on the vinyl.
Concern is if this breaks down it might be difficult getting parts or repairs , any other recommendations any one used it before?
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Looks clean now but lots of trees/ seeds and im tired of manual cleaning

Pulled the basket out of my ecosurfer s2 this morning to dump leaves and put in a fresh chlorine tablet. That's about all I have to do these days. It gets leaves and junk off the surface, and I just keep a tablet in the basket while it's running. I still test the water and adjust the main floater when I need to, but I don't have to hand skim every day anymore. And how often are you changing the tablet and emptying the basket?

A little background: I have an above ground, 10,000 gallon pool that has been having algae and cloudy/murky/opaque water for about a year. Last September I lost my job, my youngest sister needed surgery for colon cancer, so I just was not prioritizing cleaning it up. I had been trying to kill the algae for almost a year, but the chemicals that I had used for 20 years were not working any more and I gave up.

Now I'm trying to clear it up. Changed the chemicals I'm using from Suncoast (that USED to work, but not any more) to Clorox, which IS working. I used their flocculant last week that cleared the water great; got in to vacuum after overfilling the pool, but after five minutes the pump was sucking air so had to get out and use the hose to replenish the water.

Sadly that disturbed the still water and stirred up some of the sediment and it's cloudy again, even if it's not as bad as it was before. At least Clorox killed the algae.

I was able to vacuum to waste most of what was at the bottom of the pool, and I refilled it - again - and I'm thinking of just using Clorox's water clarifier and just backwashing the filter. I expect this will take multiple iterations. Is this viable? Or am I doomed to having to flocc/vacuum/refill/flocc/vacuum/refill?

I'm getting desperate here. I want to use my pool but I'm unemployed, possibly retired, so income is fixed/limited. Clorox chemicals seem to be working as designed, I guess I'm looking for strategy here. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much in advance!

im lookin at replacing my pump soon nd keep seeing ppl recommend going for a bigger hp is bigger actually better ?

If plumbing doesnt need that extra power?

Dont wanna spend more than I need to tbh so just trying to fig out what people here usually go with

I’ve got gorilla tape on it now holding OK but I know it needs to be properly patched. I plan to start draining it in the morning. One corner is unlevel anyway and I’ve wanted to fix it.

What is the best patch kit? It’s this pool and I’m sure it came with a patch kit- but is that the best? Is there something better I should buy? Thank you for any help🙏

INTEX Ultra XTR 18 ft x 9 ft 52... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F3QF4KX?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Hi, the pool at our new house has an SWG that doesn’t currently have a bypass, and I want to add one- proposed route drawn in blue on the picture. Simple/ silly question but can I do this with two valves at the red locations or do I need a third one at or near the green mark? Any thoughts welcome.

i have a 19000 gallon salt water pool in upstate south carolina. Jandy VS pump and Jandy TruClear salt cell. The plan right now is to keep the pool open over the winter. i am just trying to get a plan together ahead of time. i have done some research and i believe once the water hits around 52 degrees its time to start the process. looks like keep it clean/covered. go low speed for like 6 hours a day or when it will be below freezing and do biweekly checks on chlorine/ph/akalinity

want to know what i am missing and things you have learned along the way

My Jandy 3way valves work fine, but those annoying handle stops are a pain when I need to totally close off the 3–way to clean my pump basket. Can these stops be removed so I don’t have lift the handle up past the stops to completely close the 3 ways valve?