Recent content by bobby32x

Also, is it not recommended to swim in the water during a lowering of the CSI? I am trying to be safe :) I must first explain my confusing talk here. Trying to learn the lingo. What I mean, is to lower my TA since between all this blasted rain and the water changes due to excess vacuuming to...

I came across this in one of the pool school sections and I am wondering what you experts think about my situation and if it is relative to my situation by any means. CSI Calcium Saturation Index LSI Langelier Saturation Index CSI and LSI are two similar measures of calcium saturation in the...

I haven't used any cal hypo. Our water here is at a pretty hi level for hardness and I assume that the water not moving and being closed for so long gave it time to settle and adhere. Thank you for your suggestion

ok, gonna just poke a little more, maybe someone will see this and say they had a similar situation and found an easier fix than what I have come up with, aside from harping on me for proper test results before hearing what they actually are. MY pool was closed for more than 2 seasons, that...

Also, I am doing my best to maintain the suggested levels as read in the abc's and the other helpful posts in this website. Part of the entire process is understanding what everything is and what it does and at first I was lost but I am coming around. I am getting an understanding and like I...

yes, cya is 20-30 and FC is 10 ph is 7.6-7.8 c.c. does not show a different number than the FC. I backwash sometimes 4-5 time per day even if the filter is running at a normal pressure. For me normal is between 11-15 psi. I get dirty mud like color in the sight glass and then I rinse. I tried...

The mud is splotchy. I have vacuumed a lot of the river silt off the bottom of the shallow end and the white stuff I cant tell without getting in the pool if it is is crusty or soft. The pool is currently at shock levels with the chlorine. I have only tried to use a wall brush to move this white...

after a long battle with my pool, I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. My pool was green for almost a month mostly due to the fact that first I had a bad motor that needed replacing, so there was that entire duration that the algae bloom was at its best. I then had a leak...

I will have to look into this further then. The channeling thing probably isn't the issue since I rinse after every backwash (as suggested to me). I guess I will tear it apart but I wont know what the bottom half of the filter looks like with it full of sand. I will only be able to see if...

also, I should point out that I tried to add some DE to the filter and it passed right through and was entering the pool via returns

Thing is I do not know the age of the sand in the filter. could be a decade for all I know and, this pool suffered a flood of river water from storm Irene. I have been shocking it for roughly 4 days keeping the shock numbers at the proper level based on the chart I looked at on here. my TC is no...

ok, I need a little help here. I am thinking a lot of my pool problem clearing is due to inactive/outdated sand. I just spoke to a friend of the family and he said he went to a pool store and felt the way the pool stores sand felt in his hands, he then went to Home Depot (local home improvement...

well I thank you SmyKowski, and maybe I got lucky, but based on a level of 0 CYA, I put in enough CYA to bring it up 10 ppm (based on package instructions for a pool my size) and I tested it and it showed that my CYA was in the comfort area of 30. Maybe a week from now it will have increased...

I tried the pool calculator and a few other helpful spots on here to come up with my calculations. I know the cya is needed to prolong the effectiveness of the FC but I was liking how quickly the FC level rose up to 10 ppm. I have added CYA recently by placing it in a sock and setting it in the...

I stand corrected. I just tested it and the chlorine had dropped to between 3-5 ppm. I added another roughly another gallon and I will test in an hour