PlanoAg98 said:
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I'll need to drain/refill the pool.
Has anyone every drained a pool? I have a sump pump so I have the means. Are there any things you need to be aware of? Can you damage the pool if done incorrectly?
I stayed away from tabs cause I was so terrified of a refill, but once I finally did it one summer, it made me laugh that I had been so afraid.
First off, you probably won't ever need to drain the entire thing and I would certainly start the refill as soon as I stopped draining.
I just went to home depot, rented a pump and about 50-75 feet of flat hose and it was like $50 for the weekend. Ran it to the waste water and started pumping early one morning...Our pool is 15k and I did it on July 4th a few years ago - started the drain around 5:00am, thing was drained enough for me (like 75-85% or so) by about lunch. Put 3 hoses on it and it was full by the time I went to bed that night.
If you can stay on top of it and have easy access to Chlorine at good prices (and get a test kit) I still think the troublefreepool way is the best, but it's about 45 minutes for me to get to home depot and back and about the same to get to our local pool store which has terrible hours (don't even open until 10am and close at like 7pm)....the problem ends up being you have to stay more on top of it when using bleach and I would run into too many times when I needed Chlorine but was out and either didn't have time or just didn't feel like making the trip to HD to get more. And now days almost everything you can get at grocery stores is super weak and has all kinds of laundry-specific stuff added to them which make me hesitate to put them into the pool.
Anyway, TLDR: I like BBB, but it was unforgiving and - for me - wasn't much cheaper, so I just run tabs with the understanding that I may have to spend $50 and 1 day on a partial refill each season.