Recent content by dody

thanks so much! will do as instructed.... you guys are the best!

last night, actually... added about 3 inches of city water. whoo hoo! will give that a try. can't seem to find it at any of my local pool stores tho. :(

ok, just back from the pool store. they used a strip test, and she said there was 0 copper, and yes, there was some iron, she showed me so fast, i didn't really get a chance to see what the reading was, but it was the 2nd color up as far a recognizing the iron in the water. not really sure if...

absolutely. did the AA treatment, then the drain. thank you, i will take a sample down to the pool store.

hey all. last year, i fought with iron stains coming and going, because my husband wasn't willing to drain and refill the pool. so. this year upon opening, i added the ascorbic acid, got the stain lifted, and drained the pool until there was but 5 inches of water left in the bottom. we...

yup! vacuuming once a day, scrubbing a couple times a week, unless i get sick (which is what lead to this prediciment) ;) I will go by what the water looks like, instead of relying on that part of the test. If it's green/brown and cloudy, it's algae, right?! I just wanted to be sure I wasn't...

cartridge was cleaned on monday. psi is 11, it's never gone up or down, that's where it always is, but we clean the filter a minimum of once a week. i'm so sorry i'm confusing everybody, i'm realy not trying to be :). when doing test for chlorine, i filled the cylinder to 10, add the powder...

sorry, bad combination of dyslexia and lack of caffeine..... ive got the talor kit. here are the correct #'s with the proper letters assigned to each. C-16 CC-0 TC-16 TA-120 PH-7.5 CH-100 CYA- 40 that looks better, eh? and yes, i am slamming, and the test really didn't turn pink after...

Hey! had a gorgeous pool just a few days ago. missed 48 hours of keeping up on my chlorine, and an algae bloom started. had the green cloudy water. no worries, i tested and made adjustments, kept it at shock level for 24 hours. i tested the water and had it at shock level last night at...

will do! thanks much :)

Since joining this site, reading like a feind, and getting the proper test kit, with your help, my pool has been fantastic. never looked better. Friday afternoon, we had 2 of our gkids in the pool. They had sun screen on, but i didn't think it was overly much. Saturday morning, the pool was...

hey thanks! sorry it took so long for me to respond, we had a wicked storm come through about noon. 75+ mph straight line winds, so, i've been working on getting half a tree out of my pool. and the dirt! oy! the pool's going to be cloudy for days just from the dirt. i'll see if one of my...

the reason i ask this question, is because last year, we had a pool store experience (and ended up with quite a bit of copper stains) got that cleared up, but this year, the stains are coming back. (so maybe we didn't get it cleared up like we thought we did!) i did the metal stain protocol...

girl power!!! much to my husband's pleasure, i fixed it all by myself. (well, i did have to have neighbor boy/man come over and muscle the inlet elbow off) i got both a new elbow and hose, put them both on and ta-da! pool is pumping to beat the band. no air pockets in the pump nor champagne...

thanks, cnj! - the water drips literally from the inside of the hose where the hose and elbow meet. so, i'm thinking i'm gonna go get a new hose AND a new elbow. might just as well make sure i've got it covered, and it's not like we won't eventually need those parts anyway. she's a 17 year...