Recent content by Derek Tower

I don't have a number for you; I did a strip test right before I left for work, just to see if there was chlorine in the pool or not. So, there was 'some'. Also, I've been running the pump 24/7 and plan on doing so for another day or 2, which is why the trichlor went in the skimmer instead of a...

No dichlor or cal hypo... The tabs that my wife bought actually dissolved out of the skimmer in about 5 hours. She put in 10 1 inch tabs. I had some free chlorine left in the pool when I tested it around 1 this afternoon, but didn't test for CYA.

After I posted the question about CYA lowering pH, I did notice the part of the pool calculator that tells me the answer lol. I do have some trichlor tabs that my wife bought before I convinced her that bleach is essentially the same thing as liquid chlorine, so I'm going to use the tabs for now...

Here are the results: FC: 0 CC: 0 pH: 7.5 TA: 90 CH: 100 CYA: 0 pH and TA surpised me a bit; they're right on and the water just came out of the hose... Now my question: is there a way to anticipate how much adding CYA will lower the pH? And should I add borax in anticipation of this, or is it...

Ok, so it's been a few weeks.. here's what's been going on: The water level held for a while at one spot, making me assume that it was a slow leak and perhaps patchable. After several failed attempts at trying to find the leak, the water level dropped dramatically again. So I decided to buy a...

Just a quick update... I know this isn't as exciting as a baqua conversion, but I thought maybe people might be watching this thread... There is a hole.... somewhere... in the liner. The pool is filled to about 10 inches below the returns, and no amount of hose water is making it rise any...

OK, I have to admit that out of sheer laziness I'm asking these questions here... I'm sure they've all been answered elsewhere on the site. Let's assume that my pool is finally full, and the pump/filter is working as it is supposed to. Actually, I might need help to get there... once I have the...

Halfway through filling the pool and the water got shut off. (I'm just moving into the house, the water isn't in my name yet.) I paid my new neighbor 75 bucks to let me run the hose from his house, but I didn't want to leave it on overnight, so I have a submersible pump in the pool to try to...

Thank you. I won't be back out to the house until tomorrow afternoon. As I don't quite yet have my wife on board with the BBB method, I'll be the one pouring the bleach into the pool. This leads me to another question... My return jets seem to be missing their eyeballs... where can I find...

Ha! I was just over there and I forgot to look... it may very well be that all the bottles I saw were empty, but there were some for calcium hardness, and alkalinity up... I'll read them when I'm over there tomorrow. One other question... I am filling the pool right now with two hoses... it's...

Thank you. Right now I don't have the extra cash on hand for the top quality kit... would the one from WalMart be ok for the interim? Also, the previous renters seem to have left some chemicals from last season, are these ok to use?

Hi, I just started renting a house that has a pool, and I've never had to take care of one before. I've been all over this site, read the pool school, but I would really like a step by step. I should probably also state that at present, the pool is being drained and will be refilled as fats as...