Recent content by slowery

OK, my test kid came yesterday, I did my first test this morning My results were FC 3.5 CC .5 TA 100 CH 250 CYA 40 Ph 7.8 I added 35 oz of CYA in a sock near the return, and bumped up my SWG from 35% to 45%. I know that I'm only guessing on the percentage to go up on the SWG but the the pool...

Thanks for the help. I drained a little over 10 inches of water and refilled, I let it circulate for about 30 minutes and checked the salt level. It's down it 3500. From what I've been reading on here it's good to keep in just a little on the high side of what the manufacture says in ideal. Just...

I just had my first pool installed it's a SWG pool. It's been open for two weeks now. I have ordered the TF 100 test kit but it hasn't arrived yet so I'll give you the numbers from the Aquacheck Select strips the pool installers gave me: Total Hardness 250 Total Chlorine 5 Free Chlorine 5 ph 7.8...

I'm totally new to having a pool. My wife and I have been talking about it for years and the time was finally right to have a pool installed. I'm the kind of guy who gets most of my information from the internet. I stumbled across this site and think I've found the site to learn what I need to...