Recent content by EJ257Turbo

Thanks. That's pretty much what I thought. Hope to provide some before and after shots once everything is in order.

Hi all, I wanted to get advice on which order to do things to get my pool going this year. I've opened/closed in the past by myself with great success thanks to TFP. Anyway, over the winter I noticed that my safety mesh cover was sagging a lot and discovered that my water level had gone down big...

A few of my mistakes started since last year. Bought the house with 0 pool knowledge and closed the pool too late. My wife and I closed in early Sept. and thought "Let's use the pool as much as we can before it gets cold." What a mistake! Before we knew it, it was Oct. and it was just constant...

I have to agree with the OP. TFPC has proven to be boring but NOT that I am complaining!! This is my first time owning, opening, and maintaining a pool and started with TFPC off the bat. It's gotten to the point where I've gotten the feel for the pool and know how many PPM FC is consumed day...

I say take over the maintenance yourself. If you DIY, you will save money. I'm a newbie pool owner and opened our pool for the first time in June with zero prior experience. I can honestly say after studying the information on this site and applying the TFPC methodology, pool maintenance has...

We've had stretches of high 80's - 90's with brutal humidity and some consecutive days of some powerful storms. Our water temps in the pool have always been 86-90 degrees.

Thanks Jason. I will tell my wife verbatim what you said. :D

So I am discussing with my wife the idea of switching to a SWG but she is apprehensive that salt water is bad for a vinyl liner. After reading some pool school articles on pool liner materials and the thread about SWG I see no mention of problems with salt water pools and vinyl liners. Only...

I'm a new pool owner and have successfully opened my pool for the first time this year using the vast amounts of knowledge and helpful people from this site and my mutt of a pool testing kit: Admittedly, I had purchased the HTH kit from Walmart before understanding the importance of the FAS/DPD...

Ok, I'm trying to comprehend here. You got the salt down to 29,000 at the end of last year's pool season. But today, you got a reading of 44,000? Sounds to me like the pool got flooded again with ocean water? Like I said, I'm no expert, but from what I've read here on TFP, your salt level is...

I'm no expert, but when was that salt measurement taken? Is that measurement in ppm? If that was recent, I don't think your SWG will ever work with salt level that high. I think the experts here would tell you to turn your SWG OFF to prevent damage to the cell. Also, if there was no color...

Soley based on what you've written, it sounds like you have no CYA (chlorine stabilizer) in the pool, are using Cal-Hypo to shock the pool, and you may have excessively hard water. The use of Cal-Hypo in combination with excessively hard water may be what's causing the cloudiness (experts...

From what I've learned here, it can take up to a week for CYA to register on a test and that maybe why you can't measure it yet. As the experts here will tell you, your CC's are high and you will probably need to S.L.A.M. But I think you need to get a handle on CYA level first. Also, what are...