Recent content by lorsell

Maintaining Hello, My pool has stayed absolutely gorgeous. I have now started buying my chlorine from the pool store which is more potent. I was putting in a half gallon a night but now my CC is at 0 and I am having some questions on what should maintaining be. Here is where my numbers are...

The last two nights I've lost 1.5 which isn't bad, the CC is almost less than .5 so I guess I got a little ways to go. The water is crystal clear and sparkling though. I plan to clean out the cartridge today. That may take care of the rest of it. What is considered a good test reading for...

Thank you all so much! This forum, the test kit, the pool calculater and all this information at TFP has been the bomb! It doesn't feel to bad to spend money on chemicals that work! Lora

Finally at the end Well Today is day 7 and my pool is clean to the bottom with a nice sparkle to it. Yesterday I did add the CYA by sock method. Here are my test results today. FC = 7.5 ; CC = .5 ; ALk 110 ; PH 7.2 ; CYA = 50-60 If I'm reading this correctly seems like most of my numbers...

Thank you all for your help. I originally drained my pool of most all the bacq. except 3-4 inches of water. I believe I've been primarily fighting the algae that was present and remaining in the bottom because I had not added any bacq for a few week and the pool was turning green. Anyway, it...

Hello, I have a 20 foot round above ground pool. I just went through converting from bacquacil which I had help from you. I started the process with out the test kit and just drained pool and refilled and starting adding bleach. Here's where I'm at now and have a few questions. I got the...

Things are improving Hello, Just writing again to thank you for your help. I am on day two of adding bleach to my water, yesterday looked pretty bleak but today I am seeing some results. I am hoping my test kit arrives tomorrow it has been shipped so I did not spend the money on another one...

More Questions Hello again, I tried and tried last night to drain the pool lower but could not get it totally drained. There was still about 3-4 inches of water. Most of the green was settled there. I got in and brushed it all around to loosen it from bottom, and hopefully this was not a...

Thanks for your reply Reply: I just ordered the TFP Test kit. I understand CYA to be stabilizer. Could you suggest where to get that? I have a Lowe's and Walmart available, or pool stores. Thank you so much. You were correct in size although I do have a bottom drain so the pool is a bit...

Hello, I am new here to the forum. I am fed up with Bacquacil, and have decided to totally drain my pool and start over with chlorine/bleach. The pool is green and I'm in the process of draining it right now. I have a 20 foot round AGP. Finances are tight so this forum and talking about BBB...