Recent content by KKell

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I'm considering that pool. How have you liked it? Any tips, tricks, or warnings I should know about?

We had a red oak fall and crush our 24' Esther Williams pool that had been installed in 1997 (which except for faded paint was in perfect condition). The pool came with the house when we bought it, so now we're entering the land of first time buyers. We live in New York near Lake Ontario, so...

I haven't tried that yet. I got new sand last year and cleaned it when I took the equipment down, so it only has the gunk from opening (-backwashing) in it. And I always thought a dirty sand filter actually filters better. But maybe I'll have a chance to try that this weekend. Do you remember...

> well in to the warm season We get snow/frost in May here. Its typical to open the pool around memorial day weekend. But even given that, I've never seen anyone on the forum say something about a three week SLAM process. If you should actually expect a SLAM to sometimes take 3 or 3.5 weeks...

So I'm in the same boat. We've been keeping the pool at SLAM level for 2.5 weeks now and you still can't see the bottom of the pool, and progress in clearing seems to have stopped. With a hair net you can see that some bleached out dead algea are still floating around, and even with DE...

We're replacing our wooden deck with Composite and it looks like we need to take the Coping Rails off our pool in order to do that. But I can't figure out how to remove the coping cover caps. The screw is just spinning in place with what looks like a nut that is located inside the post. Its hard...

Thank you, that’s a really helpful explanation. It makes me wonder if maybe I should be controlling for phosphates because I keep opening up my pool from cover failures and massive leaf debris and have trees dumping copious amount of gunk into it, so that the last few summers I found myself...

Thanks for all the detailed reports. I was a little surprised by one thing you mentioned here. What kind of suggestions does the Wayerguru make that differ from what’s recommended here? From what I read Waterguru is run by Richard Falk aka ChemGeek...

Hi, I'm just reordering CYA testing chemicals and like everyone I hate and loathe the turbidity test. I was doing a quick search through google scholar on whether there are any other methods available, and through my University library access I was able to read this 2014 paper on a visual test...

Thanks, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask a few more questions. I've seen people discuss the safety of singing, but I haven't seen anyone talk about the safety of baptism yet, so if I can get some good information to other pastors that might be helpful. So the actual study is this...

I was looking up resources and found this helpful lit-review of studies. Looks like properly maintained pool would zap it in 10-20 minutes, or at least during a slam, but I might be reading this wrong. “The same study showed that chlorine was more effective than chlorine dioxide in inactivating...

Thanks kcindc - About DE and cleaning the filter, please have a look at my initial post. I did both right before my pool started getting cloudy. In regards to brushing: I have one of those vacuum attachments with brush bristles, so I vacuum the whole pool with that once a day. Let me know what...