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Oh, another question: water is cold but should we brave it and try to see if we can get the pool light out so we can scrub around it as well as the returns and the booster connection?

So started SLAMing yesterday after running tests again. My CYA was not zero as I suspected (due to lots of rain this winter) -- it was 40-50, so I erred on side of 50 with CYA/Chlorine chart. I brought FC up to mustard shock level, but then it occurred to me, am I supposed to SLAM at shock or...

Thank you for your reply! I'll get it on this evening and see if I can get ahead of it.

I'm pretty sure I have a mustard algae bloom that developed within the last 36 hours (noticed it yesterday afternoon but not the day before). My pool is all out of whack this winter due to rains, rains, and more rains, and the one tree in my neighbor's yard which deposits every single leaf and...

Sorry I took so long to reply. Tested my fill water and the ch is 25–yes, 25. I tested it twice. The ph of my fill water is 6.8. I run th full gamut of tests about twice a month and each time my CH is 200-225 so I add calcium chloride. Looking at my log and the pool calculator again, I...

Thanks for the info. My CYA stays stable. I will track all the levels again for the next month to make sure that's the case.

It seems that I have to add CH increases at least monthly (which I never had to do with my pool at a previous house on a different water supply that was definitely hard water -- my CH there tended to be on the higher range). My CH wants to hover around 200. Is there anything that I'm...

Our pump stopped working Saturday afternoon. I hope our pool builder can get a service tech out very soon, but in the meantime, is there anything I should be doing? I added some bleach yesterday and we pushed it around with the brush. The pool is already very cloudy and the pH was 7.5 yesterday...

JVTrain -- thank you for the info. I will definitely purchase and use a sequestrant. I was thinking I read that the AA treatment lowers your TA and your pH, so that's why I was thinking baking soda. I will re-read and get enough borax to have on hand to raise the pH. I was planning to...

JVTrain -- The fill water report said 0.3ppm copper (recommended range 0-0.2ppm) and iron 0.2ppm (recommended range 0-0.3ppm). That day I also took a pool water sample and the store's report said 0.1ppm copper and 0.2pm iron. I read all of the comments thus far and I searched and read some...

Hi all. I have some staining on my pool built almost a year ago, so this was our first summer. I have some stains on the bottom of the pool and upon closer looking, I noticed the sides look different than the bottom. Determined that the stains disappear with Vitamin C (I was able to write "HI"...

Metals stains it is. Vitamin C tabs worked. Upon closer inspection in the pool, the walls are streaked with these metal stains/deposits. I was able to write HI in the wall with the vitamin c tablet. My questions: Is my next step a complete asorbic acid treatment? If so, is this okay with a...

Thanks for the reply! I will get some Vit C and trichlor tablets today. I'll report back if needed.

Good morning, I have a new (built Oct 2015) pool at my new house which is on lakefront property. Until a week ago, the water and chemicals have been in good shape. I brush the pool almost every day because we don't have grass growing around the pool yet so it stays very sandy/dirty from the...

We can get the pump going but then it shuts off outside of the scheduled/programmed times, so that's why I'm not sure how reliable it will be as in how long I can keep it running to circulate water. I cannot adjust the pump speeds either, so when it runs, it runs on a low speed. I should've...