Recent content by Reba33

Can anyone recommend a pressure gauge that lasts more than one season? Ours is outside, uncovered, and often doesn’t even last a whole season.

We have decided to stop cleaning our 24,000 gallon pool ourselves, and are looking for a robot that is both reliable and thorough. There are so many choices out there. We would appreciate any recommendations. Thank you in advance.

Could anyone please suggest what might be the maximum amount of calcium hypochlorite shock powder we could use to do a very heavy duty SLAM in order to kill very, very stubborn yellow algae that we’ve had for two summers, before closing our underground pool? We would be truly grateful for any...

Thank you for your suggestions. We did SLAM, using the overnight test, but the yellow powder returned a week later. It’s not pollen, because that isn’t around anymore, since the spring. We finally found some bleach, so we’ve been using that so our CYA won’t go up. Our numbers are: FC. 6.5...

Since the pandemic, we can’t find bleach anywhere, so we’ve been using chlorine tablets and shock packets instead. Our numbers are: CYA 35 FC 4.5 CC 0 TA 100 PH 7.5 But we can’t get rid of a yellow, powdery algae (?), even when we shock, bringing FC up to 12, to try and get rid of it. We also...

We are in the process of closing our pool for the first time. Everything was moving along very nicely, until we tried to blow the water out of the bottom drain. No water bubbles came up when using our 4.25hp shop vac. Could it be too old? too weak? Is it necessary to drain that line, since...

My mistake. I meant that I would use ProTeam Metal Magic to prevent the stains from returning. I also ordered the Polyquat60 because I read this in the AA treatment: "High ph along with high chlorine will precipitate any metals that are not sequestered out of the water and on to the surface...

The reason I was going to partially empty the pool was because I understood it to be the only way to bring down the CH. I am glad to hear that 500 isn't too high, and can be adjusted by adjusting the PH. I will try and do that as soon as we are done with our SLAM. After adding 1 gal. of...

Good morning! I tested our water this morning and the results were- FC - 14 CC - .5 TA - 110 CH - 500 CYA - 40 I am pretty upset that the pool store had us add 20 lbs. of calcium three weeks ago, when our reading was 245. It has been climbing ever since. I am planning on adding 1 gal. of...

Before we started the SLAM, our PH was always between 6.8 and 7.4 - over the past month. Do you think we should still lower the FC below 10ppm and test the PH again? Is it possible that the PH shot up during AA or SLAM? The SLAM does not seem to be clearing up the cloudiness at all in the...

Finally got around to testing the water: FC-14 CC-.5 TA-120 CH-420 I didn't test CYA because I understood it would not be accurate while slamming. It was 40 before starting the SLAM. Could the cloudiness be from high calcium, rather than algae? Every time we got tested by the pool store...

Thanks, Jason. I will send the test results later today.

We acquired our pool a month ago, and are learning quickly that pools do need TLC. We discovered we had a brown stain throughout the entire pool, after getting rid of green algae in the corners with Super AlgaeBomb 60 from the pool store. So we bought a TF-100 kit, did AA Tuesday, and the...