[blackdog]

I have my own plaster gunnite pool with swim-outs. Every year we hold a party on 4th of July, and on Labor Day. Attendees are all neighbors. Since I manage the pool chemistry, I do not use the pool then, and for about a week after, because I know how much the organic matter chews up the chlorine. It's gross.

I have a solar hot water shower with LP Gas backup, yet very few people use it before they jump into the pool.

To recover the chemistry after a big party it takes two shocks, an extra three pounds of chlorine, several backwashes over about five days before normal returns.

I won't use a public swimming pool.

[twister881]

Yes, all true. Reminds of something W.C. Fields once said: “I don’t drink water because fish f*** in it.”