Pool Maint

Salt water? Chlorine?


I am a new pool guy. Doing my own chemicals and cleaning. About 8 months now. It took me a few months to get on top of things but honeslty, its not that hard and does not take a lot of work. Mine is easy because its Salt and I have a cage over it. Limited cleaning. I just have a basic vaccum head and hose from Amazon that I plug into my skimmer. Vaccum about once every two weeks. Scrub the sides each time.


There are some very good forums out there that teach you everything and have some very rabid members who sift their water daily for anything. Trouble Free Pool is the most popular one.

Just make your adjuments with chemicals a little at a time and work your way up. Stay away from the pool shops if you can. All the chemicals you need are available at Walmart/Home Depot/Amazon. Saves you a ton of money

I love my dolphin. What’s yours doing that makes it a PIA?

I’ve had a dolphin for years. Couldn’t be happier with it. Very simple to use/clean and does a great job.

Dolphin owner here as well. Throw it in every few days, take it out and rinse the filter.

Pretty simple

It’s not necessarily a PIA, Its my first pool to take care of and gave up after two years of constant trips to the store, buying endless chemicals and still having algae. We hired a local guy this year and he kept it crystal clear and only showed up about every two weeks. I don’t have many trees so it’s usually just a little dirt and a few leaves after a big storm. He just dumped a bunch or chlorine in it and left typically.

He used some type of pump that he carried around on a dolly and it didn’t pump a ton of water out. I hate using my skimmer and hose because it sucks so much water out of my pool. Most likely user error but, I’m not sure what else to do. Also, I have a couple dogs that love to jump in on the lounge deck with red dirt all over them and it gets everywhere. I have plans to fix that. I do have a dolphin, we just weren’t that impressed by it.

Thanks all for the replies

10K Gallon pool here. I add about a quart of liquid chlorine every night or two, and turn on my dolphin once every couple days, and the pool stays beautiful. Check the other chemicals about once a month, and usually only have to add some CH+ granules and maybe a little acid.

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I hate using my skimmer and hose because it sucks so much water out of my pool.

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Are you vacuuming to waste, and all the water is going out in the yard or something?

If you don’t have much to vacuum up then vacuuming to filter is perfectly fine. You just need to backwash it and then rinse after to clear out what you picked up. Wastes much less water. The ONLY time I vacuumed to waste was when I was clearing out a bunch of dead algae because things got out of hand and I had to Slam it.