Recent content by bporter

Thanks! Yes, power washing, tree cutting, slamming the pool, more power washing. Making progress by the day. Bluer & bluer.

It's going really well. We gave it heck this weekend......here's the updated photos. As you can see, we also removed some of the trees that were the source of some of the crud getting into our enclosure. We're feeling really good about the results so far.

Thank you so much for all your advice! I'm really glad I found this site!!!

One more quick question.... "Sink & Sweep"? Bother with that or no?

Thanks for the input, JTaves! I've got 10 lbs of powder shock out there and I'm going to use it up before moving on to liquid bleach. I did the water calculations on an online calculator. Our pool isn't very deep (5ft on one end and 3ft on the other). I came up with roughly 9500 gallons, but...

Thank you SO much, John! Is there any benefit to using high concentration bleach over the powder shock treatment we're buying? Is it cheaper? When I bleached it, I used grocery store bought generic gallons of bleach. If I'm going to beat the heck out of it with chlorine, I want to do it in...

We just moved into a house that was empty/unkept for 2 years. Pool was black/green. Although we had a pool at our last place, we rented and had a pool service that literally took care of everything. All we did was get any floaters out with a net throughout the week. I am reading pool school...