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Ok … who loves their moka pot - I certainly realize that a nerd-filled pool forum will likely have a high percentage of coffee brewing snobs so let’s not start any Coffee Wars here! I’m just looking for some fellow travelers who love a good stove top espresso and are willing to share tips...

Ok, that title was totally click bait but I just tested my RO kitchen sink tap since I’m changing out the carbon and sediment filters today. The membrane is good for 5+ years but the sediment and GAC filters (pre- and post- polishing filters) are important for keeping the membrane clean...

I kinda knew this was going to happen but decided to do it anyway ... You can see my PoolMath logs for the latest test results. I added an 8oz start up dose of SKILL-IT algaecide (BioDex) to see if it would help with wasp control. We have mud-daubers (paper wasps) around here and they...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/colorado-farmers-right-to-repair_n_6448159ce4b04997b5743940 Interesting development. All political leanings aside, this should be interesting to watch. I believe there are several European countries that require this already - manufacturers must make all a spare...

Ok, that just makes me not Smile 😢 Feb 2023 AmazonSmile comes to an end. I guess Jeff Bezos needs more billions to spend on his phallic rockets and his girlfriend …

Hahah. Ok, I’m no James Cameron raking in billions on a cheesy Smurf remake movie, but I can be joyful and make some noise (see what I did there 😉) about my latest purchase - Speed Queen TC5 washer and DC5 dryer set! Woooo hoooo!!!! Low complexity (love the knobs and buttons) and high...

Now this is some fun science - https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106 I’m a big fan of going back to adding pozzolans and asbestos to all my concrete work!! And now I just need to get a rig setup to do “hot pours”!! If it’s good enough for the Romans, then it’s...

Check out this segment on CNBC - If LC was getting harder to find, a rail strike is going to make it all but impossible. Be prepared for supply disruptions across the board on pool chemicals.

Hey y'all ... title says it. This morning I awoke to a flood in my walk in closet. The closet room shares a common wall with an outside utility closet where the original builder of these homes STUFFED the HVAC furncae/air-handler and one of the 50-gallon tank gas water heaters (my house has...

... asking for a friend .... ok, not really. As the title explicitly asks - anyone? I've had some water issues lately that have cost me a bundle and could have been averted with a simple notification system. Also, my water utility sucks in terms of any kind of feedback from their meter (you...

Looking for internal eyeballs 👀 to flush mount return fittings. These look like Aquastar type ones but not quite - These are 3/4” opening but I’m looking for 1/2”. I have one return eyeball I’d like to cut down the flow on so I can push more water further down the return line to a far side...

https://academic.oup.com/jimb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jimb/kuab084/6426183 This article was published last November. The authors are affiliated with KIK Industries. KIK is a Canadian firm that basically is one of largest manufacturers of industrial chlorine products in North America...

We had a severe micro-burst storm (cyclonic winds, rain and hail) descend right onto our neighborhood. Only a few square miles were affected and I think our homes were right in the middle of the storm. That mesquite tree was probably about 20-25 years old and stood probably 30-40ft tall with a...

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nbc-ultimate-slip-n-slide-halts-production-explosive-diarrhea-outbreak :ROFLMAO: That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “slip ‘n slide” 🤭🤢 Recreational water illness (RWI) is real people, learn from this so it never happens to you … 🧐

This is a pretty cool home building project - I wonder if a technique like this could be extended to pools? Especially the air-gap double walled design could allow for really thermally efficient pools 🧐

Well, I think we've reached the "hospice care" stage of SWG ownership. After 8 years of trouble-free use (generating chlorine from early March until mid-December every year), I think my IC-40 is on the way out. About 1-1/2 months ago I got a CLEAN CELL warning on my ET panel with a flashing...

Does anyone know if the 24VAC power to the CVA needs to be balanced across the three wires - L1 - 12VAC COM - 0V L2 - -12VAC or does it just have to be 24VAC across the two “hot” leads? I ask because I have some old defunct CVA’s that I’d like to bench test and I have a 3-wire 24VAC plug in...

I had to replace my water temperature sensor (Pentair 10k thermistor) as the wire got chewed through by a rat (I also reorganized a lot of the control wiring around my pad). But when I went to pull the thermistor from the discharge pipe, I noticed it was very hard to take out. At first I...

Cool stuff going on in Pasadena today ... http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv And it’s got its own drone helicopter to fly!! Those aliens can run, but they can’t hide 👽

Meet Meringue (like the pie topping), our 8 week old GoldenDoodle -

It started out with small patch of pink flamingo and I was ok with that because I was keeping my levels right where the pool store told me to and I gave it a good brushing....then all of sudden it turned into a pack of llamas!?!?! I used my test strips and all the colors say "OK" .... what can...

I ran my cleaner yesterday and took it out of the pool but did not clean it until this morning (too busy yesterday). I found this in the filter basket - It’s a dive-ring toy. Now the opening on the bottom of the cleaner is just a little bigger than the diameter of the ring but I would have...

So yes, it can happen to even the most seasoned of us.... This morning I was out by my pool testing my water using my K-1004 "Troubleshooter" test kit after making some adjustments the day before. It's nice because I can easily do pH, TA and FC/CC tests with it. The chlorine test is a color...

I wanted to document this on the forum threads since this issue got diagnosed and solved via PM. First, let me give total credit to our esteemed forum expert @JamesW for helping me to diagnose, test and fix this heater issue. James' help saved me from calling in a "pool service" guy and...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf The above link is an research paper posted on an open-source medical archive that has not been peer reviewed yet. However, it contains some early data on the survival rates of the SARS-CoV-1 virus which is very similar to...

There are many threads on this topic but I just wanted to report that the Flow/Temp sensor in my IC40 that I purchased roughly about a year ago failed (not exactly sure when I installed it) ...:cautious: It was the Pentair OEM replacement (the $99 model on Amazon) so that was a costly $100 for...

https://gizmodo.com/state-fair-hot-tubs-probably-spread-deadly-legionnaires-1838786238 :sick:

Here's an odd way to do a nose dive and then the dead-man's float - That's a ground squirrel and it's literally pointing vertically upwards with it's nose touching the plaster surface...I have never seen a critter go like that before. Oh well, it was scooped out and given a proper desert...

I dunno .... maybe we’ll need a new sub-forum for “how to sanitize my rented pool...” https://apple.news/ApKP9hh0nSvGSFqJ2-b1Fwg

My take-away from the gifts received - 1. My baldness clearly demands a new cap; 2. Wait, Bob Ross has his own board game :unsure:; 3. My kids think I should wear tie and get a job; 4. They’re dying for me to BBQ some s’mores.