Recent content by 1ginger1

The two biggest things I did was keep adding bleach until the FC was over 22, actually went up to 26. Then vacuumed a lot and backwashed a lot. Now the FC is 14 and I am keeping it there for awhile. The Pool Math now says that I need to add or delete nothing. That is great. For this large...

OK, we are now beautifully CLEAR. What a job and pain AND expense. Thanks for all your suggestions. Now will keep it beautiful. I hope NOT to talk to you for a long while. Have a great swimming summer!!

When the summer was over last year we had quite a lot black algae outbreaks. We had spent a lot of money on chemicals. This year we had to add a large amount of bleach, did Slam and Soda. When the pool finally cleared most of the black algae was gone. there are a few small spots that I am...

CLEAR -- Not Swimable At the last post the water was milky and it was suggested I needed to get the FC up to 22. I got it to 26 and then lowered it. Have used mostly bleach rather than shock. Now the pool is essentially clear, just a little hazy, not sparkly. Have cleaned the DE filter twice...

Was not able to take care of pool during winter so it was very green and full of leaves and gunk. I have gotten rid of the algae. It is now 2 months into working on it and I can not get a clear pool. We are using the TFP 100 kit. Before I tell you todays test---We had a very low PH and test...

Not sure if I am in the right place to post. I couldn't find the Topic List? What is my problem? I want to discuss my cloudy pool.

WOW, this forum and Moderator is amazing. We are 78 yrs. old and your help is so appreciated. Yes, the black spots are 'green'. I have printed almost everything off the pool school from Getting Started to the bottom. We are learning about the CYA/FC. We had never added anything over the...

As I said, it started two years ago. Up until then there was no problem. We keep enough chlorine in that we don't have green algae. I will have to look up to see what CYA means. We have had a pool since 1990 and seemed to keep it clear all this time. We have very high calcium in our water...

We have a 40,000 gal. in ground pool. In the past 25 yrs. we have had it resurfaced 3 times, about every 7 yrs. . Two years ago we got a terrible infestation of black algae. We spent $100's dollars and back pain. emptied the pool twice and scrubbed our fingers raw. June 2014 we had it...