Recent content by fireman565

Here ya go. We have an ever-so-slight haze in the dive well, but that's it. With another couple of days, the algae should be filtered out...

JohnT... Yeah... there's a real good chance we're fighting a high CYA problem after several weeks of trichlor pucks. We're also fighting a stubborn maintenance person who believes everything's okay using just pucks... :? AnnaK... This is a private neighborhood pool with about 80 families...

OK... Been at war since Saturday with the dreaded Algae. This is the time of the year we are always battling algae, just after the Fourth of July, when everyone goes to the beach. With sweeping, shocking, backwashing, over and over since Saturday, things are on the upswing. No more green...

I'm one of three people maintaining a 188,000 gal. olympic pool, along with a 1100 gal. baby pool... :o Baby pool's a breeze, a few dollars here and there, a few ounces of this, a few ounces of that, and... perfect. The BIG pool is a different story. Ten years ago, we were using a 1-ton...