Recent content by adiaconu

Isn't Arborvitae shrub some kind of cypress? http://landscaping.about.com/od/evergre ... rvitae.htm

Thanks for replies! I live in northern CA 15 miles north of San Francisco so the climate is mild. The reason I need trees is privacy since the pool is a few feet away from the street and there is a street uphill that overlooks the yard. I've been thinking to plan some cypreses, what do you think?

Hi all, I just moved into this house that has a pool with bottle brush trees 3 feet away from the pool. Their flowers are nice but made my pool maintenance a night mare as the leaves and flowers drop in the pool continuously. I've been thinking to cut them off and replace with a different type...

Thanks for reply. Alright, I'm going to add liquid chlorine until FC gets to 7-8. Can I use chlorine tablets after that or should I stick to the liquid chlorine? What I'm asking is whether the CYA can get higer than that using tablets... Thank you, Adrian

Hi everybody, So I got this house a few months ago that has a 23,000 gallons pool kidney shaped with a depth of 8 and 4 ft. I used the chlorine tables and these are the results of the water test I took yesterday: Ph 7.6 TA 90 CH 190 Cya 90 FC .8 CC 0 The water is clear Since the CYA is so...