u/Sharrakor

My pool, pump and sand filter are connected to each other by three hoses. Pretty standard setup, I think? They're flexible, corrugated, hard plastic hoses. One sprung a leak last month, and another started last night. Yet another completely split open a couple years back.

I'm a bit tired of being surprised by my pool having lost dozens or hundreds of gallons of water. If you use these hoses, what are their lifespans, in your experience? Do you regularly replace all of them to preempt a leak? Everything involved is under my pool deck, so it's not like they get a lot of sunlight.

A little over a year ago, I found a bedbug in my bed. Thanks for the positive ID, everyone. The day after, I washed all of my linens and combed over every inch of my mattress and box spring. I ordered bed post interceptors and installed them as soon as they arrived.

And in all that time... nothing. No dead bedbugs, no shed exoskeletons, no blood, no feces, no eggs, no bites. The only things caught in the interceptors were dust and hair.

I was vigilant, paranoid, and full of dread when this started. I thought it would be a neverending battle. But aside from the goofy, dust-gathering shoes my bedframe has been wearing, nothing has happened at all. Did I head off the infestation before it began? Or is it just wishful thinking?