Chris =to be honest with you =everyone had problems last year ==& I has my best year =once you get it down =piece a cake ,, for me I found if you really get it pretty clean in the fall =its makes the spring that much easier ===I would say the bigges t pain is getting the chalorine ======= 2 days a week all summer I,ve hads groups of kids from the daycare in it /// just stay on top of it & you will enjoy it ==== scale ==a 3.5 =====really the pain in the ass for me is closing it =its not hard at all ==but I keep putting it off & thats when all the stuff from the trees get in it /// ya gotta get it out either then or in the spring =======If Sheila wasn,t sick I wouldn,t give it up =But I<m not gonna open it ==when I know she won,t be able to go in ====Mike