Recent content by shill

Hotrod - it was tested about 1 week ago and had a reading 107. Thanks! Steve.

Hi, I have been shocking the pool since saturday; the pool water looks much better now ( the greenness has turned back into a sparkling blue oasis ) Also, I have stopped needed to bump my DE pump. I would estimate about 6,000 ozs of bleach have gone swimming in the pool. Over the last day or...

jiminy crickets, it is blue again! Checked on the pool this morning and it is a little cloudy but i can see all the way to the bottom of the 9' end. Looks like the FC is around 12 and TC around 20.

Jason - thanks for the info - i like your number; it was cheaper! I think I have the beginnings of a blue pool again. Update: I had to break the filter down again tonight and clean it out. I sprayed down the tentacles and removed everything from the insides. Another 7lb of DE and away it...

I heeded to popular opinion and cleaned out Walmart shelves - became the proud owner of 25 176oz bottles of bleach. I pitched 8 bottles into the pool and send the chlorine sky rocketing. An hour has gone by and the filter has been bumped numerous times. I have tested the chlorine level by...

Adam - the pool was built around ~50 years ago and i can't speak for the floor but certainly can for the side walls. It is ~8" of concrete followed by about 10" of aggregate; i can't imagine it popping out of the ground if i emptied the whole thing - but a good thought because if I had a block...

My current thought is as follows - yell if I am way off base. We will be closing the pool is 30 days or so - i figured use what i already have even if it sends CYA even higher. At the end of season, throw the remainder of the product in the pool and install the winter cover. At the beginning...

Friday night update: Pulled everything apart tonight - again! Replaced 6 tentacles (I bought six so i figured i would replace the worst six i could find) One had a visible tear at the bottom of the tentacle, one was frayed badly and the others were just the worst looking (i am fairly sure...

Here is the update: Bought 6 more fingers; going to pull the filter apart tonight and replace any damaged fingers that i can see. Got the test results too. Temp: 80 Saturation: -0.8 CYA: 107 TC: 0.6 FC: 0 PH: 7.2 Total Alk: 81 Adj Alk: 49 Hardness: 158 Phosphates: 300-500 (There were looking...

First off, thanks for the welcome. All year long we have been battling against zero chlorine in the pool and this is not the first time there has been algae in the pool (against the pool walls and floor) So far, we have been able to vaccum the side and problem gone - i am guessing it gets...

Hi All - I hope someone can help. I just replaced the upper and lower plates on a EC-65 filter (the bottom one has broken and the top was cracked). I also took the opportunity to replace the 10 worst fingers that were there whilst i had it in pieces. As the pool was out of operation for...