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Well, looking better so far. Cleaned the debris out of the pool, added chemicals and had it tested again today: CYA: 40 FC: 1.8 pH: 7.6 Adj TA: 128 Tot Hardness: 20 Copper: 0.2 Pool has lost the green algae color, now it's the color I'd usually expect. Cloudy, but added clarifier and shock...

Thanks, have one but waiting on an order for new test chemicals for this year. Was trying to do some clean-up work on it rather than have it sit another two weeks. Ken

Yes, those were from a pool store. Sampled from the pool, and immediately stopped by store on way to work.

With the warm winter Southern New Jersey has had, I took the cover off the pool this past weekend. Usually take it off the latter half of April, but I'll be on the road the first part of April and didn't want it to turn to pea soup before I got back (wife doesn't deal with the pool, and can't...

Believe me, I plan to :)

Sorry for not updating earlier, I travel for work, and have been trying to have my wife keep adding the bleach after she tests and calls me with the readings. She's been questioning my sanity with the amount of dollar store bleach we've bought over the past week. We've filled nearly three...

Had run it for about 6 hours yesterday, backwashing as needed. It sat overnight before testing this morning. Will get updated results, add the borax and let run for a few hours before testing again this evening. Will post the results.

Yes, it's a green mesh cover. It was covered towards the end of September, just before the leaves start falling here in South Jersey.

Just uncovered our pool again, and as we've had the last few years, we've got another problem with algae. The last two years, I've flocked the pool, but want to try to get away from it this year and try the BBB method. The pool is an inground vinyl pool, about 33,000 gallons. The sand in the...