Recent content by JeffMD

Well I found out 2 things today from working on the pool. #1 I may have had a bloom but it wasn't seriouse. My FC loss is pretty low when I had tested it the last 12 hours, and the pool was pretty clear aside from the green Crud all over the bottom. #2 even though an intex filter may look to...

bama, theres no way my cya would have gotten that high, I've been pretty touchy on relying on my tri-chlor and di-chlor (my only sources of cya) as methods to chlorinate my water. Tri-chlor may be great for shocking but its so potent that I am scared of it blowing the cya out on my little pool...

I can't provide a cya number..i don't have the cya test. So work with me on this. If I just replaced a quarter of my water with new water, I doubt my cya is going to be really high. 10-20ppm is shock levels... 20 if cya is really high. I don't need to keep my cl at a specific level according to...

Why does my attempting to keep the chlorine real high = not wanting to follow the shocking proccess? -_- I simply didn't want to use dichlor, although if you say that CYA reaches zero if chlorine hits zero (although afaik cya and chlorine are 2 different substances, you can have one without the...

I dont think walmart sells it anymore.. they had nothing more then the oto kit last time I went. My current kit is taylors pool and spa trouble shooting kit that I got at pinch a penny. It came with a cylinder I can use for the cya test, I just need to buy the chemicals for it. I decided to...

I am using dpd... and the reason I don't know how high it gets is because the thing only goes as high as 5. I don't need nore plan to buy one that goes to 50 just for a 1700 gallon pool. ^^ CYA I don't have test for yet so its hard to get current results. I figure just as long as I don't abuse...

I have a test kit..I gave you the values of that test kit. Why do you need ta? I'll give the benefit of the doubt and dump in alot of bleach tonight (its a small pool and id like to lay low on the stuff that adds cya after shocking) and keep the chlorine levels high while I filter things out...

It isn't algea, it isn't sticking to anything. I swap between tri chloro pucks and regular bleach. Shock is granulated dichloro. Ive allready posted the results that I have. FC is where ever I want it (2-4 ppm? use 2 pucks or splash some chlorine in. off the charts? mix in the shock). I of...

thus floculant thing has my interest peeked. something that causes dirt to clump better to be picked up by the filter?

About a week and a half ago, I noticed some streaks of this brown dust on the bottom of my pool. I did an attempt to vaccume it but my pump is a pretty sucky 2500g/hr pump and the dirt dispersed into the water before it could get sucked up. 2 days later I go to check up on it and now it pretty...

I'm still wishing for the temps to drop. /living in florida is just AWFUL.

dman, I picked up taylors pool and spa trouble shooting kit, it had a 3 drop fc/cc test to it. it also had a large tube for other test so I just need to buy the replacements for the cya test.

I have a 1700 gallon pool and don't yet have a cya test for it. I've been swapping every other 2 days between using a small version (These are like half the size of a usual puck) trichlor tablets and plain old bleach. In each case I generaly loose between 1-2ppm a day, I was loosing more earlier...

foster, I'm not really digging the replaceable filters.. they seem to only hold out about a month and then they just leave the water cloudy, even after hosing it off. and yea its a 1700 gallon pool.

Actually it is probably because the item is showing up in their catalogs, but the inventory isn't in yet. This isn't even on intex's web site yet.