Recent content by RickyTidwellsMom

It is an interesting dilemma you are facing. I am curious to know how it turns out! Best of luck to you!

Hi Kev, Welcome. Interesting, I don't see how this would make a fence unclimbable. Maybe a 5 year old wouldn't be able to get over but any pre-teen or above would certainly be able to get over that with ease. That wooden wedge only would make it harder to stand on the fence, but if you can get...

Sorry was out of town for a while and then back for only a few days and out again. Here are the pics.

I am confused about something. In every other place I have read it the PH test is unreliable in a FC > 10 environment. With that known, why is the PH being adjusted at this point? Shouldn't OP be waiting for the FC to drop below 10 to get an accurate PH reading?

I went to Lowes and bought one of these and it works out nicely. It has oz. and mL marks on the side (oz. in 8oz. increments up to 64oz.)

I hear you, I posted the deal in this thread.

I will snap a new picture tonight when I get home. All of the OCLT tests and conditions say it is done. As I said before, those after pics were taken 4 minutes after brushing and there was some gray sediment clouding the water a touch. I have a 75 sqft cartridge filter and it takes a bit to...

And if it is the step stains you are referring to. I inherited the pool from a 2 year vacant foreclosure. There are stains and plaster imperfections all around the pool. It will need a refinish (and new tile as you can see from one of the pics) in the near future. I drained the pool a long while...

Thank you for helping with the pics, not sure what I was doing wrong. FC=7 CC=.5 PH=7.2 (aerating to bring up slowly, my eyes are happy at 7.4) TA=90 CYA=40 CH=190 (little low, bringing up now) Pictures are a touch cloudy because my filter is undersized so I had just cleaned it and brushed...

I thought I pulled the attachments back out. Oh well, the link to Flickr shows both before and after.

Hi all, Last post was about the awesome price of chlorine here in Central Florida. I needed some because my pool went to heck while I was away on business and the weather warmed from high in the low 60's to high in the upper 80's during the week I was gone. I bought 10 gal of 10% from my local...

Got Leslies mailer, reusable coupon for the month of March. $6.98/2x2.5gal 10% jugs max of 4 at a time but the coupon is reusable. They also do the buy 10 get 11th jug free. Since I let my pool go the last month I am going to need a few of these to get it back in shape. Water at 73 and swim...

Is CYA damaging to the pool surface if left on it? I always make sure the flow is 100% through the main drain when doing so and again, all of the CYA was gone from the sock within 2 hours.