01-19-2013, 03:42 AM
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Originally posted by Ken
In over twenty five years I have had one new liner - I went with the "oversize" (next pool diameter bigger) liner to ever prevent it from slipping into the pool when it gets low as the original one did. That was about $1,000.00 - installed and with 2 loads of new water.
New cover every five years or so - between 75 and 100.
I use 5 micron and replace every month. You can get two filters at Home Depot for around 12 bucks or so.
Most important lesson I learned was to put a knee high nylon stocking on the "fill" pipe from the gutters. Change monthly or more in heavy rains. Clean gutters every 6 months or so too. In doing this I have had my tank cleaned three times in 25 years – at about 250.00 a cleaning.
Occasionally, maybe 4 times a year, I add 2 cups of bleach. Amazing that in 10,000 gallons of water, adding 2 cups of bleach – and you can smell it in the water in the shower!
Most amazing to me – the pump works perfectly – and it’s going on 25 plus years old!
You bring up a very good point- catchment involves roof maintenance too and that includes landscaping. Removing vegetation and nearby trees which dump things on your roof, get into your gutters and eventually your water. And you'll need to deter birds. My wife setup a bird feeder and I had to move it because it drew attention to our gutters. Where there are birds there is bird poop.