On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:55:57 -0700, ELGY wrote:

The skimmer well is connected to the pool by an always open channel. The
water level in the well is always the same as the pool.

I agree. So you can put a valve in the skimmer; and that will turn on when
the skimmer water well drops too low.

But then, how do you get EXTRA water (from a garden hose for example) into
the skimmer?

The skimmer cover (from the top deck) is about a foot from the edge of the
pool. Assume the garden hose connection is twenty feet away.

Is the proposal to snake a garden hose twenty feet across the lawn and
concrete deck and then just dump it into the top of the skimmer with the
top removed?

That's what confuses me. How do you get the water INTO the skimmer when
most skimmers (that I know of) are built into the concrete deck of the
pool.

There's no entrance (other than the top cover); but if you use the top
cover, someone is gonna trip on the garden hose and break their neck.

Did I miss something?

You can't just pull the top cap off the skimmer and dump a garden hose down
it as it will be snaking across the deck ... so how do you get water INTO
the skimmer from an outside source?

I'd love to know ('cuz I'd implement it myself!).

"Orak Listalavostok" wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:55:57 -0700, ELGY wrote:

The skimmer well is connected to the pool by an always open channel. The
water level in the well is always the same as the pool.

I agree. So you can put a valve in the skimmer; and that will turn on when
the skimmer water well drops too low.

But then, how do you get EXTRA water (from a garden hose for example) into
the skimmer?

The skimmer cover (from the top deck) is about a foot from the edge of the
pool. Assume the garden hose connection is twenty feet away.

Is the proposal to snake a garden hose twenty feet across the lawn and
concrete deck and then just dump it into the top of the skimmer with the
top removed?

That's what confuses me. How do you get the water INTO the skimmer when
most skimmers (that I know of) are built into the concrete deck of the
pool.

There's no entrance (other than the top cover); but if you use the top
cover, someone is gonna trip on the garden hose and break their neck.

Did I miss something?

You can't just pull the top cap off the skimmer and dump a garden hose
down
it as it will be snaking across the deck ... so how do you get water INTO
the skimmer from an outside source?

I'd love to know ('cuz I'd implement it myself!).

The fill valve is plumbed into the skimmer when the pool was built. It is
controlled by the toilet fill valve. If you have no such plumbing it would
be necessary to add it to use this method. When complete, the pool is kept
filled with almost no need for extra effort and is easily adjusted if
necessary within about a 5-6 inch spread.

On 17/07/10 6:59 PM, wrote:

I plumbed the waste water from my RO into the pool and I have not had
to add water since.

Now that's a really good idea! That water is just wasted now. My RO is
in a location where that would be very practical for me to do that. But
when I'm away from home for an extended period of time there is no waste
RO water being generated.

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SMS wrote:

On 17/07/10 6:59 PM, wrote:

I plumbed the waste water from my RO into the pool and I have not had
to add water since.

Now that's a really good idea! That water is just wasted now. My RO is
in a location where that would be very practical for me to do that. But
when I'm away from home for an extended period of time there is no waste
RO water being generated.

RO kicks out about 5 gallons of waste per gallon of RO. If you're losing
150 gallons daily from the pool, you'd need to be consuming 30 gallons
of RO per day to keep up.

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wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:50:28 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
SMS wrote:

On 17/07/10 6:59 PM, wrote:

I plumbed the waste water from my RO into the pool and I have not had
to add water since.

Now that's a really good idea! That water is just wasted now. My RO is
in a location where that would be very practical for me to do that. But
when I'm away from home for an extended period of time there is no waste
RO water being generated.

RO kicks out about 5 gallons of waste per gallon of RO. If you're losing
150 gallons daily from the pool, you'd need to be consuming 30 gallons
of RO per day to keep up.


If I was losing 150 gallons a day I would be looking for a wet spot in
the yard. That is a pool leak.

That was the figure the OP gave in the OP.

On 19/07/10 8:24 AM, wrote:

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If I was losing 150 gallons a day I would be looking for a wet spot in
the yard. That is a pool leak.

No, no leak, in cool weather there are no losses at all. In very hot
weather (July, August, September) I can lose 1/8" to 3/16" per day. The
pool area is about 75000 square inches in area. A gallon of water is
about 231 cubic inches.

75000 sq in * 0.250" /231 cu in/gallon = 81 gallons
75000 sq in * 0.375" /231 cu in/gallon = 122 gallons

Okay, closer to 100 gallons than 150 gallons.

At my late mom's house in Florida the pool never needed water added
because in the summer there was enough rain to offset evaporation. In my
area of California there is no rain in the summer, and little humidity
so evaporation is much greater. I can reduce it a lot by putting on the
pool cover but that gets the pool uncomfortably warm.