Recent content by Kathy bartz

okay everybody I'm getting a little bit smarter and searched on your forums about phosphates and learned what I needed to learn. I will continue to check your forums from now on rather than bothering you guys but when I do test for my chlorine today I will send my results or use the pool...

Thank you for that. Do you know anything about fertilizer getting into a pool Or using stuff to get phosphates out of the water and phosphates blocking the chlorine? I don't use fertilizer in my yard but the three surrounding neighbors do

Also this has not been mentioned to me and maybe it's not a concern right now but what about algaecide?

okay so does anybody know anything about fertilizer being in pool water and making it impossible to get a chlorine reading? I have dumped about 10 gallons of shock into my pool not to mention probably 10 bags of shock prior to that. the guy that opens and closes my pool is telling me my pool is...

Good to know that. My pump runs 24/7 so that will make it easier to get a water sample.

that also is a great idea thanks for all of the thinking you are doing for me. I really am like a child LOL

thank you for the great ideas. sounds a lot easier than the way I went about it. The reason I couldn't get back up from sitting on the edge of the ladder is my knees are very weak. I did not take that into consideration when I went off for the sample LOL. well back at it in the morning and...

Can you tell me if my neighbor got a sample of my pool water late today and I brought it right into the house and capped it, will it still give me an accurate reading in the morning? I have an inground pool and for several reasons I can't get into the pool to get an 18 in in-depth pool water...

Good to know. I just wasted over half of the bottle I guess but that's how we learn right! something's wrong with this stuff anyway it didn't dissolve in the water all the way and was chunky. Thank you for the great advice.

Also when I was putting the RO 870 N I must have put 12 of those little Scoops in before I got any color is that okay?

Thank you you have put my mind at ease already and eliminated all the things spinning around in my head. I will take another free chlorine reading and let you know.

Okay, so I got my test kit like 4 days ago I've been reading and reading the book watching online videos on YouTube and my head is just spinning. I am not getting this at all there's too many percentage signs and quotations and formulas and oh my God it goes from bad to worse for me. I did do...

okay so this may confirm my ignorance to pool care but I went to the place you told me to look for the ABCs for pool chemistry and I didn't see anything in particular in their referencing primer for tfp. Is there another word for that lol

Thank you for that I've learned an awful lot in 2 days but I'm getting there.

okay so I got my test kit yesterday K - 2006 and I am completely baffled unfortunately I have not been able to make sense out of it and meanwhile I have dumped 4 gallons of Shock 1 gallon of bleach and I can't figure out to do the test I'm supposed to do at night time I believe the FAS - dpd. I...