- Change into old clothes
- Remove leaf cover with heavy rotting leaves (should have done this before winter!)
- Spend 3 hours vacuuming scummy pond water out of pool cover, while trying hard not to contemplate colonies of tadpoles, worms, spiders, and other creepy-crawly things which are being sucked up by shop-vac
- Leave for a few hours and pray that the sun evaporates remaining water
- Return to find slightly less wet cover that needs to be removed before predicted rain starts
- Roll cover gradually, continuing to vaccuum remaining leaf bits, crawly things and water
- Drag dripping wet scummy cover into yard
- Attempt to hose off remaining scumminess
- Drag cover to driveway to deal with later
- Burn cover-removing clothes and resolve to call a professional next year
So, we got the pool cover off, the chemicals seem ok, but it’s still cloudy from all the dead algae floating around in it. Maybe by next weekend it will look nice, but it will probably still be ice cold. Ah, the joys of pool ownership. This summer better be nice enough to use the pool more than 3 times!
Oh, the intracacies (i can’t spell :p ) of pond cleaning, huh? I helped do that once, and I’ve never let my friend convince me to help her again!!
Pond, pool, whatever. Either way its a large body of water just itching to spring forth with microscopic life forms… I cared for a backyard pool for a few years, a job of relentess attention, not worth it for a non-pool user like myself.
Thanks it helped alot