Recent content by jlevino

Thanks!

Question for those with experience... On Sunday, I covered our pool with the solar cover. Today, I removed the cover to find one very dead (and ripe) opossum. Judging from my nightly chemistry readings, the spike in CCs, and the fact that the thing was smelly and bloated but not yet...

Pool report: 7:30pm, approximately 13.5 days into conversion. FC: 2 ppm after 12 hours of full sun. Less than 1 ppm overnight FC loss. CC: < .5 ppm (The test was the faintest pink and one drop completely cleared it.) two days in a row. pH: 7.5 TA: 110 ppm CH: 220 ppm CYA: < 20 ppm but I've...

I would agree with leaving it off -- why spend the $$ to heat a pool if you won't be using it for a few days?

Sorry that I missed yesterday's update all... Today's pool Report: Yesterday, my pool actually had a FC residual 24 hours after the last addition of bleach! Granted, it was only .5 ppm, but the entire day was sunny and hot and I only added the socks full of stabilizer two days ago! CCs this...

Pool report: 7:00am FC: 11.5 ppm (We had torrential rains last night and I gained over an inch of water in the pool, so I'm not sure what the actual overnight FC loss was) CCs: .5 ppm (Not sure if the reading is artificially low due to rainwater dilution or not) pH: FCs too high to accurately...

For what it's worth, I'm in the ending stages of conversion of my pool and I've burned thru about 175 gallons of bleach so far. Sizewise, your pool is about 90% of mine and you started with roughly the same Baq levels that I had. While your mileage may vary, I wouldn't be surprised if you use...

Overnight FC Loss Test: PASSED Pool status: 6:00am Overnight FC loss test: PASS (1 ppm loss over 8 hours) CCs: 1.5 ppm TA: 100 ppm CH: 220 ppm pH: 7.5 (as of last evening, before adding enough bleach to get up to 15 ppm) Borate: ~50ppm (per test strip) Salt: ~980 ppm (per test strip) Bleach...

Pool Report: 6:45am Overnight FC loss test: 3.5 ppm (13.5 ppm --> 10.0 ppm over 8 hours) CCs: 1.5 ppm pH: FCs too high to get an accurate test at this time. Today is supposed to be cloudy/rainy all day in Pittsburgh. Hopefully, that will allow the FCs to stay in the pool instead of instantly...

Boy, does the $400 sound familiar. :x Been there, done that too. Unfortunately, I didn't get the tee-shirt.

Rather than backwashing my filter -- I completely break it down and clean it out. I've done that five times so far into the conversion -- the last time being Wednesday morning, after the water had completely cleared. Since then, the filter has been behaving itself -- I haven't gained any...

Sorry for the late post this morning, all. As of 5:30am this morning (just before dawn): FC: 6.5 ppm (5 ppm loss over 8 hours) CCs: 1.5 ppm The water is crystal clear, and I topped up to 15ppm before leaving. Bleach used so far: 113.5 bottles (161.2 gals)

Pool status: 9:30pm Ok. As expected all FC burned off during the day. CC's also burned off to .5! As soon as the sun was down, I added in the required 3.5 bottles of bleach to top up the chlorine. Crossing my fingers on the overnight FC loss test. Bleach used so far: 111.5 bottles (158.3...

Pool report: 10:30am: approximately 6 full days into conversion. Overnight FC loss test: 4ppm CC's: 2ppm pH: 7.3 Bleach used: 108 bottles (153.4 gals) Pool is in full sun -- Not adding any more bleach until this evening. Getting closer.

Sorry -- most of the crushed bleach bottles went out with the garbage yesterday morning. The cashier at Walmart had this look of increduality on her face when I came thru her aisle with the last batch of 25 bottles of bleach. Of course, I didn't help matters by asking where their HazMAT suits...