During the recent bout of extremely hot days and nights it would have been handy to run just to cool the bedroom down a little before we retired but with the current cooler weather it isn't necessary. We still get to our 30 or so during the day but as it gets later in the day it cools and eventually drops to around 19° or so overnight.
But the installation didn't happen without any mishaps. It seems the safety switch for the power isn't functioning correctly as the electrician discovered yesterday. It is working OK now but couldn't be fully relied upon. The sparky will be back to sort it all out in a day or so.
And then I went to vacuum the pool but there wasn't enough suction. I tried several things but all without luck. Eventually I cleaned the filter cartridge and it became immediately obvious what the problem was. The cartridge needed a clean so badly the water had found trouble getting through at all.
One cleaned filter cartridge later and the vacuum was back to full suction. But then an ominous yellow light came on saying the pool needed heaps more salt. Trish made a quick dash to the local pool shop and two bags of salt later the pool was clean and the salt chlorinator was working perfectly.
I did have a quick swim afterwards. I had misread the pool thermometre and thought it read 28.5°. It actually read 26.5°. It is quite interesting as to what a difference 2° can make when you first get in!
So it was a day of fits and starts!
That night I had a Meeting to chair which went longer than normal. This morning there was a report on the meeting to do as well as finish of the first Newsletter for 2018. Everything just seemed to come at once!
But all is now over and done with and I can settle back to my life of ease!
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