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I need a way to cover a pool, to block most of the light, but to keep water off the cover. Ideally I really need it to cover completely so that an animal couldn't drink out of it. Basically I need one of those nice mesh covers, but have to spend as little as possible. Could I make hundreds of...

This is just a one time thing where I want it to filter faster. Have run the filter 24/7 before. DE sounds like a good addition.

I do have a working sand filter, however I am wanting to filter the pool faster. I don't know what my pump is rated at. I will start running it 24 hours a day obviously. I read you could add a 2nd pump, or more, to get your pool cleaner faster. Would above ground pool filters not do much...

You are right, and I have the FAS-DPD for this year. What I was doing the previous year worked pretty good overall, and in the start of last year, so I was surprised I had so much trouble for the last half of last year. (Last year I used the proper CYA test too, using R-0013, but found it hard...

Two years ago I had a friend helping and we used BBB. I struggled a lot with my pool last year, trying to do BBB. The same friend helped a little and during the first half of the season I was doing okay. I would mess up and it would start going green, but I'd just shock it. At the end of the...

I will look for another one in case, but I did do it... "I unscrewed that cap to let the sand filter drain out."

This is my first time having to close my pool by myself. I should have checked here before I worked on it, but I didn't. I was trying to remember my friend's advice and I seem to have done some things wrong. I am not worried about getting it perfect right now, but temps are supposed to be low...

I was using some HTH test kit I have here. It took 8 drops to go red, but 7 was sort of close, so I multiplied 7.7 x 3 = 23. I know that's low but probably true? I haven't done anything for TA for a year I guess? In the pool school section of this site, I believe it said the baking soda will...

Okay, my TA is 22 or 23, and apparently for my pool it should be more like 90 (70-90). So the pool calculator tells me for a 27000 gal pool, I need to add around 26 lbs of baking soda to get it to 90. Around 18 lbs to get it to 70... is this right? Is it worth doing? Should I just get the level...

Yeah... I think I didn't keep my FC at shock level for long enough. And the bleach was probably not stored well enough, not poured slowly enough and not circulated enough once or twice... :(

I am interested in this, or anything else that would help prevent algae in the first place: so-you-want-to-add-borates-to-your-pool-why-and-how-t4921.html But since I have algae right now, I should forget about this until I get rid of algae?

Yeah that sounds fine. My pool might eat up 8 gal fast though, but it would still be nice...

Okay, so I am still barely getting the hang of it, but I'm doing BBB. I'm to the point where I want a little more help, so a liquidator sounds good. I would go for the bigger one and do that tubing upgrade and apparently it's like $200 plus a few hours of install time by an average semi-handy...

Hm, I guess I'm supposed to get my CYA to 40-50+ and then FC needs to be like 3-5...?! I'm really tired of lugging the 1.75 gallon bleach jugs from Walmart. Isn't there an easier way than the bleach jugs doesn't cost a fortune?

Well, I let the pool turn green again :( So I am getting good at fixing it from the green algae state because of having to do it many times. For various reasons I need to pare it down the major concepts... What would be the main key things I need to do to avoid it going green on me? My list...