(I got it years ago, just the link I have, others offer it)
It blocks about 50% of the sun from hitting the water (about 50% coverage of the pool) and helps maintain the water temp rather then allowing it to crack 99 like it did the second year here.
Yes there is a lot more to putting one of these up. I have aircraft cable anchoring it to the deck, the house, the gazebo, and the 4th corner has a steel pole with a to spec telephone pole guy wire into a ground anchor. YES you need to think about stuff like that cause when the wind catches this thing, it can move!
Two ends are connected to winches to tension it, and I have break away quick connect clips on all 4 corners in case it decides to take flight!
Installed July 2020, and it is still going strong!
Thanks for this.
The way we are situated here it would be a difficult thing to do, at our home in PA we have one of these shading one of our lower level patios and they do work to keep everything much cooler.
The water temp at our pool in PA was 90 when we left Thursday night. Gotta be beyond that now, checking cameras to be sure we donāt āgo greenā until we get home tomorrow, I have the filter programmed for an 8 hour run at night and the waterfall runs with the filter which seems to keep the water temp down a bit. I hate running a filter 24/7 when no one is at the house.
Well, today is forecast to be only 80, so we get a one day break in the heat (tomorrow back up in the 90s).
So that means today is:
Bake bread
Cook chickpeas
go to Goodwill to dump a van load of books
mow the lawn
weed the front beds
try to trim some of the branches on the tree in front (several dead branches, plus others hanging too low. Canāt get to the ones starting to touch the house until I borrow a pole saw).
finish the cart for Nishaās boxes (just attaching casters to a piece of plywood, but an outdoor job).
Get boxes of junk that was at the bottom of the pile I finally worked through out to the street for bulk garbage day.
Take a long walk (havenāt hit 8000 steps in over a week; some days not even 3000. It shows).
And thatās without getting into needing to finish the YouTube video that should go up tomorrow, or packing up orders to ship tomorrow, or doing any sort of work on inventory.
Makes me sorta look forward to getting back in the 90s so I can just work.
86 seems to be the ābestā when the outside air is not close to 100.
At āhomeā in PA, Iām an early morning runner so when I get back I go right into the water. Temp lower than 83 or 84 feels like freezing water when I jump in after a run. Seems we have a bit better ācontrolā keeping that pool at the right temp, weāre surrounded by trees so we get that natural cooling. In Manasquan no trees, full sun back here so 90+ is a bit TOO warm, feels like the hot tub without the jets!
Yeah, we got some really strong wind about 8:30; but didnāt get a whole lot of rain. But the big line seems like it will be a few more hours (but it has cooled off quite a bit).
Good think that I heard the wind, though. Looked out the front door to check it out, and saw that someone had left 8 garbage bags full of books on my front sidewalk! Didnāt even call or text to tell us they were dropping anything off. I have no idea where they came from!
Weāve been in triple digits for awhile ā¦ weatherman is saying a cold front will come through on Sunday and drop us down to 99 for a day and then we will return to triple digits.
On the flip side ā¦ canāt wait until next January when a warm front comes through and we will get above 32 for a day ā¦
Our personal favorite is when a stationary front comes through with 30 to 40 mph winds ā¦ yet not much is stationary when this happens ā¦
Hope you got the book donations out of the rain in time, even if most of them will be destined to the advanced bookstove with which you heat your house in the winter.
Yeah, it was just starting to rain on me as I brought them in. I would have just stacked them in the corner, but the trash bags were the scented kind, so I unpacked them all. After discarding the obvious rejects (one whole bag of RD Condensed, and a bunch heavily read paperbacks), still had 6 boxes to look through. Iāll get to them someday, but not tonight; already past quitting time when I found them. And I have 3 cleanouts scheduled for tomorrow; just when I thought I was catching up!
OMG,. Time to call it a night! 3 cleanouts tomorrow? How ambitious you are for a 27 YO!. Good luck. Hope there is no rain tomorrowānothing worse than moving books in the rain!
Theyāre all pretty small; nothing more than 100 or so books per stop.
One of them is the 4th time for this house; weāve gotten probably 20K worth of stuff from them so far, so I think I can manage a few more boxes (and thatās without figuring out yet if there is any way to sell all the weird Asian porn we got).
Rain shouldnāt be a problem, but 87Ā° means Iāll for sure need a shower when I get home!
Well, one of those cleanouts turned out to be a dud; sounds like sheās having a really hard time getting her husband to give up anything at all!
But from the one weāve done before, just one piece (not a book) is similar to one listed for over $300 on eBay, so not a bad trip.
We just had a thunderstorm come through here. It was more thunder than storm with light rain and no heavy winds. The storm had already passed through here ā then the electricity went off. I got my flashlight out and lit several candles. All I could do now was wait for the power to come back on. It was early evening and still enough light out that I could sit on the porch and read. Thatās when the power came back on. It was off for about 45 minutes.
I can still hear thunder rumbling in the distance but I think the mini-crisis is over for us for the time being.
I should follow up on my post. Although my city was spared from the intensity of this storm, a neighboring city (JC) twenty miles to the west was not. JC received 5-6 inches of rain in an hour which created flash flooding. They had high winds which toppled some large trees and also caused an older vacant building in the downtown area to collapse. By the time the storm moved into my city the intensity had greatly abated. No toppled trees, just a few twigs blown about here and there.
A fair point, indeed, albeit not implemented easily in any automated fashion due to certain limitations in the Discourse Platformās Software Suite which hosts the SellersAskSellers Forum.
Hence the primary reason why I am still unable to fly the flag of my actual Home Planet, like so many others of we who are here to help yāall learn the mantra weāre helping Amazon perfect:
We had a line move through about 3:40; pretty intense, but only lasted a few minutes. No hail, but about 1/4" rain in 5 minutes or so. Everything else went south of us, which would probably miss Manhattan.
Anything under 82Ā° usually feels too cold for me.
I got my flashlight out and lit several candles. All I could do now was wait for the power to come back on. It was early evening and still enough light out that I could sit on the porch and read. Thatās when the power came back on. It was off for about 45 minutes.