Recent content by drag0on

Great read, thanks. Good to know it might be normal. I will stop worrying about the calcium as well.

I feel like you guys are selling a philosophy here. I put a gallon of sodium hypochlorite in this evening. It's now very blue, but still cloudy. I'm hoping the foaminess is from the breakdown of two years of organic material. I've scrubbed the bottom a few times over the last six hours as...

I put it down yesterday afternoon. I've since swept a few times and I've vacuumed as well. I forgot about the no backwashing rule and I think I did it once this morning. :( It looks like I'll have to order a FAS-DPD kit off of eBay. No stores in my area sell it.

I just retested and it looks like there's almost no chlorine in the pool. How confusing this all is. I will check out the post, thanks! I did add stabilizer, however, I mixed it in water and spread it out around the pool. Am I better off putting it in a sock? Glad I found you guys. :)

Thanks! I will look into getting my own testing kit. I would like to try the SLAM method, but how can I do it with the chlorine being high? Do I wait for the chlorine to drop or should I drain a little and refill?

Hi everyone, We bought a house with a 24' hexagonal on-ground pool in January. Pool is about 10000 gallons. We were told that the pool was installed in 2007 or 2008, and the liner was replaced in 2014. After we moved in, we discovered that the previous owners (who'd been there two years) did...