Recent content by sheloveswater

Does anyone have any suggestions for where to purchase a new pump? I am planning on ordering online if possible. It would appear I have a bearing going out in mine. I use a 1 HP single speed. It is for an inground pool. Thanks for any advice, JoAnne

Will my sand filter clear the cloudy (I assume it is dead algae) water? I have been told the particles are too small for the sand to remove. I do not want to put a flocculant in it, if possible. My filter is a TR 100 with 4.9 ft of surface area, I think 100 gpm (label is hard to read), with a...

I am very new to this also, but I think adding muratic acid will decrease your pH, but will not help your cya which I think is OK, according to your last cya posting. I, also had a lot of trouble knowing when I was "not seeing the black dot". But the only adjustments for cya is...

I do not know how to re-size my photos. I would like to be able to pull the photos from my Zoom Browser EX program. But I have no clue how to resize the photos to fit this application. I have minimal experience using attachments, it doesn't usually work, so I don't try very often. I was hoping...

That is what I figured, I would need to test to be sure and I was mistaken about the amount of CL loss. ooops. I am taking a chance and did not add CL today. Using dilution, I figured about 10ppm tonight so I will check for that tomorrow morn. Hopefully my reagents will come. I have also used...

After many weeks my pool is finally to the "cloudy white" stage, My question is do I keep up shock levels until it is clear? I understand to keep it up until the FC loss overnight is 1-2 ppm or less, but I have run out of CL testing solution, hopefully it will arrive tomorrow, it did not come...

It was through reading the Pool Forum posts that I discovered TFP and this active forum. I am very grateful it exists, the posts on it were extremely helpful and led me to this site to continue my learning experiences. I continue to read the past and recent posts of the people on the Pool...

This battle has been ongoing for almost 2 months now and I am about to lose my mind. (See history of posts if you dare) I thought things were improving, I was wrong. Earlier this week the water seemed cloudy, but with a daily green coating on the pool surfaces. I brush daily and vacuum every...

Thanks for the advice about using less reagent, I am going through the cya stuff like water(Ha Ha) For real, I have less than 30 ml left from my week-old kit. I have tried redoing the test with the same sample over and over and over. It seems the cya is very important esp when shocking. I...

I received my test kit 5 days ago and have used over half of the cya chemical supplied! That is one test that continues to confound me. I seem to be 2nd guessing myself from 80 to 50. "I think I see the dot, but not really, or does a faint outline count or is it an optical illusion?" I think I...

Does anyone have suggestions, clues, advice from common mistakes made doing the cya test? Is the reading accurate when the black dot is barely covered or totally opaque? It is very inconvenient to have such a high cya right now. I liked it better when I thought it was 45 and not 80. I am going...

Since my last post I have my new test kit :party: I have been using liquid CL wed and thur. The algae is seeming to improve, which is good, but I now have a ? about the cya. On wed evening I added slightly more CL than recommended because the cya reading I was using was from a pool store. I...

"I feel your pain!" I too have had a very frustrating season trying to get my pool usable. I have shocked 3 times and ready to do the 4th. Everytime I shock I have an equipment failure the next day and lose circulation for several days making the shock tx useless. Chemically, mine has been OK...

The situation is this: I have "shocked" my pool 3 times this season and will soon do the 4th shock. This is getting old and expensive. As it progressed the opening of the pool has been tedious and frustrating. I am a novice to the BBB method. After shock failure due to bad instructions on the...

Thanks to everyone that submitted advice! I checked out the pool school and now understand why one cannot just throw a single specific amount of CL in to shock level. Fortunately, I had a free H2O test from a pool co and know the CYA value. The next thing to do is buy a better kit and as...