Recent content by JimmieD

Caco and Jeff, Thanks for the encouragement. I noticed you both listed salt. I need to continue with the pool school to which I have been reading this site's. We will finish out his season with the Frog I suspect. We have to decide as to approach next season. Even staying with the frog...

Jeff, I was explaining our situation and what we have been told to do. Not bucking y'all advice just getting all of the facts on the table. We are new to the pool world. We are an active family. No room for pool to fail so this last cloudy episode is putting a strain on us. It has been my...

This is a Frog System. There are two pots one with minerals and the other with Chlorine. We are to add once a week; Phos Free, Stain remover and Algaecide as normal maintenance this is from the installer. The pool worked until we started chasing phosphates to lower them. The Flock solution...

10 - 4 about the pool store. We vacummed this am due to Flocking yesterday. While vacuuming I added a gallon of shock chlorine. We also did our weekly pool maintenance and chemicals such as Phos Free 16 oz, Stain & scale 3 oz, Algaecide 5 oz. Taylor kit k2005 says we are at 5 total chlorine...

Yep I had forgot to include the test results Sorry. It is depressing to see all of the negative talk about our state of the art system; ARGH ! Should have been here before buying. TF100 says= Temp= 84, Total Chlorine = 2, Free chlorine = 1.5, CC = .5, PH = 7.2, Total Alkalinity = 90, Hardness...

We have a frog system and it is tricky as to balance. Right now we are fighting cloudy water. The stories you get as to what is acceptable is all over the place. You see the chemical stores are use to the normal pool setup not the Frog. So you over dose every chemical.

We have a real cloudy pool after adding in ProTeam Shock and Swim oxidizing shock to stop foaming. We found out that our chlorine had dropped to zero. All we were to do was to chlorine shock it back. We added one and one half gallon of chlorine shock; now it is cloudier ! Naturally we have a...