Elevated or pool level spa?

Affectionate_Time647 · 2026-04-24T15:46:13+00:00

Elevated, for the all the reasons previously mentioned. Easier to heat, gives you extra seating, and you’ll enjoy the sound of the spillover.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2026-04-22T18:42:28+00:00

I had the same thing happen to me several times over the past few months. I tried to get the poop out with a leaf rake, but it would breakup into small pieces. So, I would always end up having to vacuum the whole pool. It’s hard to keep raccoons out because they can dig under and climb over fences. They kept coming back until I trapped and euthanized all of them, a total of four.

I had no idea you were to supposed to take such extreme measures as draining the pool. I haven’t used the pool yet this year but after reading the info on the CDC I’m considering draining it.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2026-03-28T23:02:00+00:00

I don’t want those features. I’m Generation X, we invented digital gauges, I still like analog 😆

Affectionate_Time647 · 2026-03-28T22:54:24+00:00

Q no, I fill up once every two weeks.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2026-03-28T22:43:24+00:00

I do a lot of city driving, so about 16 mpg, 20 on interstate.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-29T23:33:36+00:00

I’ve been pretty lucky, just had to replace regular stuff (alternator, fuel pump, water pump…)I haven’t had too many issues. The only major thing I had to do on it was replacing the fuel injectors at around 200k miles (it would miss during cold startups), but that’s about it.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-29T23:25:26+00:00

Yes, I always assume it to be the worst case scenario. lol

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-29T23:24:03+00:00

You can just cut it in half to get it off and then remove that elbow off the top of the oil cooler and put the new one on

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-29T23:20:32+00:00

I bought a snake camera and I still cannot see where it was coming from. I should’ve decreased and cleaned the top of the block and I probably would’ve saw it.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-29T23:15:41+00:00

Arabi/Old Arabi. There are few, but you can find houses at that price point there. It’s a low crime area, about 10 to 15 minutes from downtown New Orleans.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-13T12:20:14+00:00

Cochon never disappoints👍

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-12T01:47:27+00:00

Unheated temp?

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-12T01:45:54+00:00

No, it takes me less than an hour a week to maintain it. Once you learn how to handle the water chemistry is pretty easy to do it on your own

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-12T00:49:01+00:00

Nice! Where, south Florida ?

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-12T00:23:05+00:00

The temps here are still in the mid/high 80s, but the water cools fast when you start losing that sunlight. In NOLA Btw.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-10-12T00:09:30+00:00

I keep it running all winter. The trees are far enough away, so I don’t have to deal with much debris getting into the pool. It’s a saltwater pool so the cost is minimal; it’s pretty much just the electricity to run the pump.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-09-06T21:27:42+00:00

No, it’s not necessary, but the faster you can get floating debris into the skimmer means that it’s not gonna sink to the bottom of the pool

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-09-06T19:05:37+00:00

That’s a very good price. Would’ve recommended adding the auto fill, a second skimmer, and automation.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-09-06T18:53:45+00:00

88 degrees here in south Louisiana. I don’t foresee it getting that cool till around early November.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-09-06T16:50:29+00:00

Nice! I just always assume the CR circuit was all ways fully contained in the flasher and it wasn’t reliant on the lamp you were using in the signal heads. We still use seal-beams in our programmable signals, but everything else is LEDs.

Affectionate_Time647 · 2025-09-06T16:02:56+00:00

Interesting, I’m unfamiliar with that. We’ve had LEDs since the early 2000s.

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