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I have had a Lamotte ColorQ Pro 9 Plus and a TF100 for 3 years. I test with the TF-100 weekly and the ColorQ every few weeks. Here are some of differences I have noticed. FC - ColorQ always has a much lower value (ex. 5.0 on TF100 and 1.13 on ColorQ. I know what FC was yesterday plus...

I use a big pipe wrench to get mine open.

Ours are white. The blue looks nice, I just have to wonder if the sun will fade the blue steps over the years.

Re: This had to be brought up before but I can't it: Is ther You are not the only one with this problem. I cleaned mine, lubed the o-ring in March at opening. A few days later I needed to open again to clean. No can do. Husband finally got it loosened.

I bought several bottles last year. My stains began to reappear even with keeping Ph 7.2-7.4 with the Aqua Chem. I returned my unopened bottles & went back to the Purple Stuff. My AA treatment this past weekend went well & am using Purple Stuff. I used 1.75lbs AA. I wanted the Aqua Chem to work...

This will be my first AA treatment. Your results look amazing. My liner is starting its 14th year. The staining is a very light dusting but it drives me crazy. I'm mainly trying to get the stains out of the steps since I guess they are permanent. How well do you think they will clean up & do you...

Keep us posted. I am starting an AA treatment when FC drops to .5 - should be within the next 48 hours. Fingers crossed for both of our pools!

Re: Help me choose a correct pool heater...not sure of pool Wow! - This IS our pool. It is a 17 x 33 Oblique, Pacific Liner. Linen is correct as ours is 16,000 bottom of skimmer, closer to 17,000 at the top which is where we keep our water level. We have a Hayward Natural Gas heater (250)...

I was at Garden Ridge over the weekend (Concord NC) and they had a great selection of cushions. Had to get my 6' palm tree for the pool.

I use Aqua Jogger & pool noodles for exercise when the pool is open. I feel so much better when I exercise regularly and I dislike going to gyms so the pool is it!

We do have a heater but it is still bypassed & drained. Until we get out of this freezing 50-60 degree weather there is no use to run the heater. We do have a solar cover but I'm afraid this cold weather will make it brittle. Where is our hot weather??

Last fall I called a large pool installer in Charlotte and posed this same question. Our liner is living on borrowed time, the shallow end getting the worse of the wear. Blame it on that basketball goal. I was thinking maybe get rid of the liner replace it with a hard surface. They did not want...

I have lots of trees & must use a solid safety cover. The mesh I am told would allow my pool to turn green before I open in March.

I'm a season or two from needing a new liner. Current liner is light. I also wonder if you can see blue vs green easily. Or most important, can you see creatures on the bottom?

I have an Interfab Whitewater slide, 13-1/2 yrs old. I like deep slides as small children cannot lean over the edge & fall out. The BYOS 2 is deeper than mine so no problem there. We have had to patch ours twice. Patch #1 is at the top of the slide where the ride starts. Kids/adults get to the...