Recent content by tbenturner

I just use bleach, nothing else. Weird, right? How long do I need to maintain the chlorine at shock level?

So I performed the overnight FC test, and I don't think it circulated enough. I put in the bleach at 10:30 last night, waited an hour, and I tested the FC: 20. This morning at 6:30 I tested it and got an FC of 26.5. Yes, I overshot how much bleach to put in, but shouldn't my taylor FAS-DPD...

According to Hayward, my pump has a rating of 44 gpm. But it looks like that is too small for a pool of my size. The turnover is just over 12 hours, when it should be between 8-10 hours.

It has never gone back to green, so does that mean anything? My pressure gauge needs to be replaced, but it usually runs at about 12 psi, and I backwash it when it gets to 18-20 psi, sometimes I let it run up to 24. I know it needs to be replaced because when I bought the house it read as...

The more research I do, the more I realize how much of a pain this is going to be. Apparently I do have an underpowered sand filter. Some of the web sites I looked at marketed my filter as an above ground and small in ground pools, of which mine is neither. An appropriate filter is going to...

I have a problem with my pool being cloudy at the beginning of the season. I have owned the pool for 3 years now, and until recently, I thought it was normal for it to take 3 weeks to a month to clear out the cloudiness. My pool has always been green when I open it, so I shock it several...