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The Ahh-some arrived. While it only produced a small ring around the top of the water, it seems to have tamed the odour. There is still a faint whiff on the bathing suits that no one else can smell, and no odour on me. Hopefully it will disappear with another purge but the weather is too cold...

I will get some ahhsome and go from there. Not sure how long that will take in lockdown! Thank you. I will provide an update when we have given it a try

I used Spa Purge

We do, based on the pool calculator but my Taylor kit is out of CYA tester. Would that affect the odour? It doesn’t in a pool

We have a « new to us » hot tub. It has been filled and emptied twice, with a purge one of those times, then refilled for use. The water is crystal clear, the Ph and alkalinity are set correctly. The hot tub doesn’t smell during use, other than the odd waft of chlorine. We are using Smarter...

2006. I think I’ve figured out it should be PCST120

The vendor has been less than helpful. Someone gave us the hot tub but it didn’t have any filters in it. The owners manual is useless. Thanks!

We were given a ”free” 2006 Coast spa hot tub. The shell is in great shape but one of the pumps is seized and the heater is tripping the GFCI. There is no longer a local dealer and I can’t find the right heater element online. I could get the pump rebuilt locally. I discovered spa packs on one...

We are adding solar panels to our semi Inground pool. The SWG is already bonded to the pool, and the bonding wires are buried. How do we bond the solar panel controller? Do I have to dig up to lay another cable? Or can I connect the solar panel controller bonding connector to the bonding...

Hi Given Covid, we ordered the flexible pipe to hook up our solar system online. We didn’t have it at our old house, so we have made the newbie mistake of measuring the outside of the pipe instead of the inside. Now I have a bunch of 2” hose and it seems that our pump and pool has 1 1/2” pipe...

Topic says it all. Our last house was grandfathered so we didn’t have to deal with it. Both code and the bylaw say any door must be self closing and self latching, unless we fence the pool separately, which we don’t want to do. There doesn’t seem to be any reasonable after market device, and no...

Yes. But even with well balanced pool, we haven't kept it away for more than two or three weeks once the pool got above 60. This year since the borates were preventing wild growth, and we were too busy with other things the last three weeks, we were kind of ignoring it. My point was the...

I've used a lot of material on this website and after a long struggle with algae, I thought this might help someone else. We have a 24 foot above ground pool. We have constant algae growth for the last two years, even the day after shocking with chlorine levels still high. Last year we did two...