Recent content by expatchris

brilliant - that's what i needed to know. The water is really quite clear. I sent my father-in-law to the pool store to get a test and buy the sequestrant and they didn't want him to spend $50 when they were reading no iron - they had good intentions but inferior knowledge! thanks for the...

just had the water tested - they say the metal readings are fine. Is it possible that the iron can color the whole pool green and not show up in a test? they just said the phosphate levels are sky high and it must be algae - it's not algae!!!

Did a very successful ascorbic treatment a couple of weeks ago, but had a major setback. Chlorine levels have been hard to raise since the treatment; since 2 weeks had passed and I was getting traces of algae in the corners of the pool I tried to raise the chlorine a bit more aggressively; not...

Thanks to this forum, I did an ascorbic treatment yesterday – we moved into a house with a huge, but rather old-looking pool 2 summers ago. Due to all kinds of problems with the winter cover the liner was deeply stained – every square inch of the liner below the waterline was stained: the...