Recent content by Al G. Bloom

The Liner is 4 years old. We're going to get a patch kit, how much bigger should the patch be than the hole? I read 2 inches of extra material on all sides, does that sound good? Also the boxer glue mentioned on this forum, is that the stuff that will come in the kit? Or is it better to find...

Hi again all, Thanks to this forum I was able to get my pool chemistry sorted out earlier in the year but now I have a bigger problem. There was a small leak but we thought it may be coming from one of the pumps. Then yesterday we set the vacuum going an now this morning there is a tear maybe...

Thanks for clarifying that CYA question up for me Richard and Jason, and I hadn't thought that they may have been too high, but now that you mention it, they do use pucks and added a bunch of a granular shock product but I didn't see any indication on the package that CYA's were in there...

Hi Everybody, New here, and glad I found this site, you guys have a huge amount of info, Ive learned so much already from the pool school and the sparkling oasis thread, and once I get this under control I hope to master BBB too. So here's my story so far. My mothers pool is seasonal, it's...