Recent content by Rose

Thanks Jason, last week the pool store did a 1 1/2 hour test on my pool water and the test wanted me to put 48 bags of shock ($240.00 worth) every 4 hours for 24 hours. Forget that story. I appreciate your help in all this but now my husband has decided to tear it down. We have a leak in...

Jason, I added the 6 gal. of bleach about 6:30 PM and around 10:30 I checked it with a test strip and I got a reading (very light washed out purple ). Now it's 7:00 AM did the test strip again, got nothing. I also have the solar cover on the pool so the sun would not eat up the bleach. We...

Jason, When should I start adding the 6 gallons of bleach now (it's 1:30 PM in Pennsylvania) or should I wait till the sun goes down. Rose

to jason lion I used 2 teaspoons of bleach per reading about it on this site. Additional information i forgot to mention. pool size: 24' round about 48" deep Hayward earth filter. rose

I'm about to give up on this pool. We opened late and it was green. Pool store said we have phosphates. Gave me something for it and also shocked it. That was two weeks ago and I still can't get a fc reading. I have dumped gallons and gallons of bleach + I am still using smart sticks by...