Recent content by scott6824

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    Need new liner 28' round 72' overlap 25 guage???

    Does anyone recommend a great place to order a new liner.. willing to pay extra for a 25 guage ....looks like from the reading to NOT go with linerworld...thanks...
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    Lightbulb..learning more and more

    Last year had two small rips in vinyl liner....shocked for two weeks water still cloudy ,,,luckily saw and rapaired it with repair kit,,,,this year with heavy leaves and dirt and a frog ,,,water as black as the night sky,,,,again daily cleaning and shocking for three weeks ,,,water got clear...
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    TA 290???

    Well I ran the pump for 7 straight days... at shock levels... brown stuff in the bottom of the pool still there.... ran creepy and vac. out several times... keeps coming back... very little over night loss on the chlorine.. kinda giving up on this problem.. with overnight lows this weekend in...
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    TA 290???

    Could be metals... and just how do I test for that.. and get ride of it ... just keep sucking the stuff out..? thanks .scott
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    TA 290???

    Hi again.. still shocking after 4 days.. FC levels at 20-25... CC at .5 last night i vacuumed the bottom manually ... then ran my creepy crawly for another hour... this was just at sun down... pool water is clear.. got up this morning and visible algae is again on the bottom... took a brush and...
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    TA 290???

    Jason... with visible algae on the bottom.. and scrubing 2 times a day...and keeps coming back... why is my CC so low.. Ive had leaves in the pool that had higher readings... in the past...Ive had great results hitting algae with chlorine ... almost over night.. Ive never seen this much ... at...
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    TA 290???

    Hello again... Been on the BBB method for 3 years.. this year I have a problem that I've never experienced... 19000 gal pool.. this summer has been extremely HOT... and very little rain.. so every few days Ive had to add well water from our house system... the last week I kept the cover on it...
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    got sand in the pool

    got it....inside the filter the bottom where the 8 tubes screw into was completly split down the side.. 2 pipe clamps and some gorilla super glue did the trick.. now just have to get a replacement part ..... when does the fun start.. ??? hehe
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    got sand in the pool

    See.. .when I was vacuuming all the leaves out.. Thats when I noticed that I had sand at the bottom of the pool... so alot of sand went with the leaves in the garbage.... so I know I probably 10-20lbs less than the orginal amount .. so my question is ...after I add the new sand to the filter...(...
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    got sand in the pool

    Had a horrible opening at the start of the year(memorial day crappy weather in Wi)... alot of the debri feel off my winter covers back in the pool.. shocked and have been running pump pretty much no stop... some how I got sand in the pool ... have been vacuuming out... I think my internal piping...
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    Pretty cool stuff

    maybe ill keep it in there and take a pic.. see how dark it gets... the cap is on to the first reply... scott
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    Pretty cool stuff

    Thanks again folks for an awesome looking pool and the savings on chemicals is awesome too.... Today when I pulled my cover off ... I saw a clear soda bottle that I threw in about 4 weeks ago in the bottom of the pool to watch my water currents and to use as a guage to see how clear the pool...
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    newbie loves BBB

    ditto... .thanks everyone....clear water and at half the cost....
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    How to tell when to shock by smell.

    The TF kit is awesome...when I found this site I didn't know squat... with coutless hours of reading posts and asking questions.. my pool is crystal clear and down to $2.63 in bleach last week.... granted I keep my cover on alot.... couple of my tips..when you order the kit get extra supplies...
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    How come Im getting an algae line?

    Ok ..I really shouldn't have said day nine of shocking ..but my first sentence said just getting below shock level.... Im confused.. shocking should take 2 days.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Ive read several posts on here of shocking for a week or more .... I lost about 2ppm a night prior to saturday for a...