I know some people prefer it, I only called you numbnutts because GoodForAnother provoked me to lay a verbal smackdown. Fact, the smell and burning sensation you are referring to in a "regular chlorine" pool is excess chlorine in the water and can be eliminated by proper chemical balancing.
it's all good, no hard feelings tigr2ndbase . I have plenty of customers that prefer the salt chlorine generator. They are good peeps, as I am sure you are, that add to my job security.
Ha..this escalated quickly. I have super sensitive skin (:aero:) and the amount of chlorine that I've always dealt with in pools has irritated the crap out of me. The salt water ones I've been in I've never noticed anything. If you could manage a chlorine pool where it wouldn't bother me I'd be all in. Move to FL so you can help a brother out.
In all serious, are you in pool sales or maintanance tramp? Would love a little education before I make the decision in the coming future.
Equipment sales, installation and repair. It is all good. If you have sensitive skin saltwater is the way to go unless you really have the time and ability to get your pool chemistry dialed in. The best thing you can do with a saltwater pool is follow the recommended 3 month inspection and cleaning procedure and also monitor your pH level at least twice a week.
no but the opportunities have been there. it is my business and my livelihood so I have to keep myself above reproach. seen some weird shit though for sure.
I didn't smack him down. I simply wished him luck going with the company that he had been using which was a couple hundred dollars cheaper. This was the same company that told him he needed a new pump and all that was needed was for someone to actually connect the existing wiring to the existing pump in the correct fashion as opposed to having a loose lead in the motor arcing for contact. There were several issues there that could easily kill someone under the right circumstances that his existing company had never even noticed or pointed out to him. But so long as he can save a couple hundo to keep his Porsche in gas and his cigar box filled he should be good.
I believe in the economic principle of Comparative Advantage (and I'm mediocre on handyman projects) so I hire it out. There are a lot more talented in this thread that do DIY.
We used Blue Haven, they were great throughout the process, would recommend, not sure if they work in your area though.
Love a.tramp laying the truth down. Nothing worse for your equipment & deck than salt. It may appear easier up front, but you pay in the long run
Oh yeah, and if you get on of those metal enclosure thingies and have a salt pool, look out, that shit will be falling on your head at some point.
Recently picked up a set of hooks on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VCAZWXM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I wanted to start to make use of the large amount of space under the deck. I placed corrugated tin under a small part of the deck to keep that area dry. So all of the above is in this area. I want to put the lawn mower here as well but need to get pea gravel or something similar on the ground to fight any moisture coming ground up. Would like to add some free standing wood shelves under the tree trimming saw on the right. Also wanted to get our pool toys off the ground and don't want to deflate/inflate every time I take my girls to the pool: Not going to lie its a little creepy now under the deck. Lastly, installed one of these in the laundry room: https://www.amazon.com/Mounted-Storage-Organization-Organizer-Basement/dp/B01H2I19L6/ref=sr_1_2?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1469425362&sr=1-2&keywords=garage and home storage organize
I'm restaining my floors currently and chose espresso. I'm now having second thoughts after staining a few stairs and small set of oak planks.
Supposed to close on a house on Wednesday, VA appraisal report still hasn't come back(appraiser finally came through on Friday) ... So probably not closing on Wednesday. Ready to get out of the rental we're in, homeowner is trying to sell it and fuck trying to live in a home while someone else is trying to sell it. It was bad enough going through showings/open houses when I was selling my own house.
got home from dinner las night around 9, condensing unit was not working and immediately trips the breaker. was 85 degrees in the house. ran to wal mart because it was open and picked up a portble ac and set it up in the bedroom and moved the dogs in there with us. is a comfy 68 degrees in there now. fingers crossed that it is just the motor and not the condenser.
Lmao I'm picturing a robber trying to break in and somehow looking under your deck to see a bunch of power tools and creepy fake animals
So Saturday night my neighbor knocks on my door to tell me water is gushing out of the ground near the sidewalk right on our property line (my sprinkler system was running). It was dusk to dark at that point, so I turned the system off and waited to check it out on Sunday morning. I guess the water flowing out of the pipe had created a hole that exposed the break, as well as hollowing out at least some of the earth under the sidewalk. I'd say it was 6 to 8 inches below the surface. I have no pictures to share, but is it possible for a pipe to just burst without any warning in the middle of the summer? It's not possible that it got damaged by lawn equipment, and my sprinklers last ran on Wednesday. Also, the break did not occur at a junction with a sprinkler head, but it does appear it occurred at a joint (without more digging, I can't see exactly what the pipes are doing at that spot). I'll have to unearth more one of these next few weekends when I have time to inspect the damage and plan my repair, but just curious if anyone has ever heard of this. Young buy_dont_lease knew a thing or two about taking the top off a sprinkler head with the mower, but this was a buried pipe that just appears to have burst.
Could be a weak joint where two pipes are joined together or where a pipe meets a sprinkler valve Source: my sprinkler system breaks all the time
Did I mention my roof leaking, due to a worn out pipe vent boot? I can't get a roofer out to fix it to save my life. I'm going to end up on the goddamned roof doing it myself, and I do NOT want to do that.
compressor on the condensing unit bad, need new unit. now I am absolutely screwed as we haven't decided 100% on the 1000 sq. ft. addition we are heavily considering doing. so, go back in with a 3.5 ton (whoch will be a very inefficiwnt unit even currently due to the refrigerant they will have to use) and be woefully undersized and need more work one we we ad on or go ahead and get a 5 ton and add a bypass/recirculation loop that will handle the extra until the addition is done. goodbye new truck I was considering.
that sucks man. I think I've heard of at least 12 AC units going out this year already. A lot of them in my neighborhood on homes that were built 2-3 years ago
I am going with a company that installs Amana. Decided on the 3.5 ton and will add a completely separate system in the upstairs when we add on. 10 years parts AND LABOR warranty and lifetime compressor warranty. If the compressor goes out after 10 years you only pay labor and they supply the new unit.
Reframing the window, doors, and trim yesterday and decided to change up the windows a little. I think they turned out great and were really, really easy.
Since theres sprinkler talk in this thread...i had a pinhole leak once in one of my pipes that flooded a part of the yard if i turned the sprinklers on. Not sure how it happened but it was out of nowhere too. I also just replaced my control unit since my existing one was running all weird no matter how many times i reset the settings. Went with one on Amazon that has a much easier interface. Only issue was that i had to splice the existing power cable (both 24V and the existing one was running from a far away outlet) to work with the new one. Worked great and the new scheduling system is easy. But my rain sensor wiring won't work in the new one