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Pool was 87 last night. Great for evening swims. I may have to take the solar cover off this weekend if it doesn’t get cloudy or rain.

Pool was 90 when I looked earlier. Debating when to take the solar cover off. Storms every day for the next week. So it will definitely cool down.

I'm pretty sure the palms in the picture are very mature windmill palms. Hard to tell in the picture. Windmill palms are your best bet. They are slow growers. But can withstand temps down to almost 0 without being wrapped. Do not buy Mexican fan palms unless you plan on wrapping them up really...

So basically you're saying the bottle is too full?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've had the same issue with my refill kit. My old test measured 350. My new one is about 550. I don't know what to go with either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pond water looks better than the pools in rio. I bet someone gets their organs harvested in Brazil over this incident. Matt

Update on water: FC 4.5 CC 0 TA 90 PH 7.5 CH 350 CYA 60-65 I need to get the CYA up a little more. I've added 4 pounds in the past two weeks. It only raised it about 10-15 ppm. But on a good note, my saturation index is .03. It was .29 a few weeks ago. I went to Leslie's today to look...

I wish I only added 3 cups every 10 days. I probably add at least hat much daily. I go through a gallon or more a week just to keep it below 7.8. Matt

Our pool builder didn't charge extra for tile markers or benches. He said the markers don't cost much since they always have tile left over. He told me that he didn't understand why other builders charge so much for benches. That there really is very little added cost. The tiles were placed...

We have a new pool. Plastered and filled June 10. We have the pentair5g leds. We love them when we use them. About 2 weeks after start up we were sitting outside with friends and all of a sudden the lights twinkled out to only reds. Nothing would fix it. Called PB up and he came out a couple of...

Ok. Yeah. PH has been tough. I have to add acid almost daily. If not every other day. Alkalinity has stabilized over the past few weeks. I will bump the generator to 50%. It's pretty dang hot right now. Matt

Current readings are: FC - 3 CC - 0 CH - 350 TA - 80 PH - 7.8 CYA - 55 I don't know what my calcium hardness has come down. The first time I tested it I got over 600. Then it's gradually come down over the past few weeks. How is that possible? I added two pounds of stabilizer last week. I can...

I will probably retest everything tonight. It's been a week since I've added stabilizer and done the CYA test. Fc has been 3. Alk 80. Ph fluctuates between 7.4-7.8. Just add acid almost daily. Matt

We had free maintenance included for 6 months with our new pool. After two months, I have decided I'm tired of battling the chemistry with someone else. They were instructed to add nothing but acid on their weekly visits. Today I saw him pouring something into the skimmer that quickly started...

If you put a cover on it in the heat we are having right now, I could easily see it reaching 100 degrees. Ours registers 92 in the afternoon right now. I'm not sure if that's accurate because our equipment is in direct sunlight along with the sensor. Water stays cool in the summer through...