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Thanks guys. I was going on the recommendations of the pool maintenance company that was recommended by my builder (Maryland Pools - now out of business) I'll try the lower TA and let you know.

TA is a bit low 100 and ph I maintain but bounces to 7.8-8 after awhile and I tweak it back down. Muriatic acid. Use Bioguard test kit and Bioguard test strips for quick look. Going to deal with TA and see if that helps. Was 125-150 a few weeks ago.Thanks

Long time pool guy here, and my pool has become troublesome to maintain PH. (PH keeps rising). Pool is perfectly balanced and has been for years and has never been subject to this. The only change in my situation is that a line of Leyland Cypress by my pool have been dropping tons of dead...

Thanks Patrick. My son's friends are in the heating/ac trades and the first thing they recommended was Rheem(Raypak) By the way, I wanted to thank ps0303 but didn't know how to reply to all. Maybe I did

Shopping around for an in ground heater and trying to get opinions online is near impossible. Have a 16 year old Purex Minimax that has been pretty trouble free. Just failed (cracked heat exchanger). Anybody have good longtime service out of one? My son who is a master HVAC, says internally they...

I am a very experienced pool operator. Was a competitive swimmer as a young man and have managed and maintained pools from 300,000 gal commercial pools, to my current backyard pool. But on occasions, I have questions.