How much three kids and their friends actually raise the water level

Started by Sam Whitaker · · 2 replies
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Went out monday morning after a full weekend of the neighborhood kids using our pool like it's the Y, and the water was like two inches from the top skimmer opening. Didnt add a drop myself. Did the math and figured it was just splash out plus, i guess, however many gallons of pure kid displacement. Had to run the hose backwards basically, drained some off before it snuck into the skimmer housing. Nobody warns you about this in the leveling guides, its always about evaporation and rain, never about eight ten year olds doing cannonballs off the ladder for six hours straight. Anybody else eyeball their water line different once school lets out, or is it just my circus

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Eh I'd push back a little on chalking it up to pure displacement, Sam, ten kids ain't exactly whales even doing cannonballs. My money's on splash out being the real culprit, all that water going over the side and onto the deck instead of back in the pool, especially if they're playing anywhere near the ladder. Up here in Ohio my grandkids do the same thing to my 27 footer every summer, water creeping toward the skimmer opening, and when I actually watch what's happening it's just gallons sloshing onto the wraparound deck all weekend, not some Archimedes situation.
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Bill's onto something with the splash out, that matches what I see, though my situation's a little different since it's an inground with the vinyl going right up to the coping, no deck for the water to disappear onto. So when my grandkids are over cannonballing off the steps, I actually watch it go straight back into the pool most of the time, just sloshing around the perimeter. Two summers ago I marked the tile line with a piece of tape before a Saturday with six kids in there for four hours, and by Sunday night it had dropped maybe half an inch, which I chalked up to normal evaporation on a hot weekend, not the kids at all.

So on my pool at least the kids barely move the needle, it's Sam's ladder situation that sounds like the real variable. If most of that splash is landing on a deck instead of coming back down inside the walls, an above ground with a wraparound is going to show it a lot more than my setup ever would.