Recent content by PeterDM

Thanks for the responses. Yes, this corresponds to my experience. Chlorine loss, heat loss & water loss all seem to be significantly reduced by using a solar blanket. The 3 days I left the cover off led to an unanticipated drop in FC that caused the appearance of a very slight amount of algae...

I always use a solar blanket as my pool does not have a heater. As it is only a 24' x 12' x 5' pool it heats up fairly quickly once the weather gets warm. Slammed the pool on opening, back in late May & got the water completely clear after a couple of weeks. Since then I have kept the solar...

Actually ... sticking it in a sock created more problems. My ground up stabilizer was (I assume) much finer than granulated stabilizer. As soon as I put it in the sock & tried to put it in the pool, it wound up on the (white) pool capping. Yes ... it stains! Not a major problem. Bottom line...

I ground it up fine before using it, sprinkled it over the surface & then swirled it around with the pool brush until it dissolved.

FWIW: the pucks dissolve very slowly. So, I ended up grinding them up & distributing the resulting granules into the pool. After 2 pucks the CYA recorded was up to about 20, which seems about right. Ground up another two pucks which should get it to around 30 plus. I'll see where to go after that.

So, you think it's OK to add the pucks directly to the skimmer? They're dangling over the pool jets right now, but I imagine they would dissolve faster in the skimmer. I have 4 pucks in the pool right now, which should raise the CYA (40,000 litres pool volume) by 20 ppm. That should leave me...

The product is brand name Aqua (a Canadian company that supplies many pool products) "Stab Tabs". The composition is listed as 98.5% cyanuric acid, 1.5% "inert ingredients". It recommends one 200 gm puck per 9,000 litres to raise the stabilizer level by 20 ppm. What I am not sure about, is how...

I have been waiting for my test kit refills to arrive from the US (I used up the last drop of the 0013 as well as the R-0600 & R-0014 at the end of last year). My CYA is not registering at all. It had been low (20 -30) for the last couple of seasons after several years of only using liquid...

Same old question yet again! :confused: I've always ordered my TF100 refills here, shipped to my address in Buffalo & picked up there. This year, this may be a problem. I won't need them until sometime mid-May, but the way things are going there's no guarantee that it will be possible to cross...

No it's not an air in the pump basket noise. It's like the normal noise ... but louder. I would guess it's the bearings. The pump isn't that old - I think we replaced it about 5 or 6 years ago.

I have a 1 HP Hayward pump. This year I replaced the GFI power receptacle that the pump plugs into. I don't if it is in any way related to this, but this summer the pump is much louder than I remember. Any opinions on what might be causing this? The pump seems to work OK, just noisy.

Geez! Cooling the pool water! I have a small (12' x 24' x 5') vinyl pool in Ontario Canada. The heater broke down about 6 years ago & I discovered that I didn't really need it as the water (assisted by a solar blanket) generally always reached about 26 C (79F) during the summer swimming...

I've been using liquid chlorine exclusively for the last 4 years. In that time the CYA levels slowly dropped to around 30, so last year I added some stabilizer pucks for a while. After opening this spring the CYA readings have been consistently between the 30- 40 mark. Today was the first time...

https://www.pioneerfamilypools.ca/products/aqua-trol-8-kg/ I assume it is the same thing as baking soda? I was under the impression that TA levels should be 100-120, but now I see that 80 ppm is good. I'll check all the levels again this evening. But at last test: FC 7.5 pH 7.5 CYA 60 CC...

Opened the (very green) vinyl pool just under two weeks ago. I'm just about crystal clear now. My TA levels were low around 40, so I added Trol that I had left over from the pool store & topped up with baking soda. However, every store in the neighbourhood is now out of baking soda! Last...