Recent content by TNBandmom

No suggestions or recommendations from the experienced pool people here?

Two years ago we bought a house with a 27' round Ester Williams pool which had been buried except for about a foot. Hard to tell exactly since there was a deck around it. The previous owner gave us paper where he had replaced the liner about 2-3 years before we bought the house. The original...

How did the install go with the kit?

Even when it is raining I still run out and get water to test and continue to make sure I keep the chlorine level up. I would rather get wet than let my chlorine go down and get algae started.

I agree with FPM. First you definitely need a good test kit so you can test ALL of your levels. You need to do this in the evening and morning to be sure your cloudiness isn't organic. Since March, seems I've been through all the issues with my pool this year. Until I bought the recommended pool...

Fighting with metals in the water is really hard, disappointing, discouraging, costly. I've been fighting with them for several months now. If you are going to go the BBB method, you will waste less money by cutting your loses now on that system. Between the iron in my fill water and all the...

I've been researching all evening trying to figure out if my current sand filter is adequately sized for the pool. Sand Filter: Swim Pro 236T with this: Effective filtration area: 2.53ft2 filtration rate: 25 gpm/ft2 filter & backwash design flow rate: 63 gpm Pump is 1.5HP From what I can...

Well we figured out the mystery today with the multiport valve. Last year or maybe the year before the handle wore out so hubby replaced just the top part. He missed the square notch that was supposed to line it up. Who knows what I've really been filtering on. After examining this today and...

I'm thinking about ordering one of those filters for the water. Also I'm thinking about getting a testor for iron. We live in an older section of our city. I'm thinking it might be something in this part of the city. I didn't have this problem at my other house. I'm considering talking to a...

Need help troubleshooting. After a very long battle of getting rid of algae and the water turning green due to metals, my water turned cloudy and I can't seem to get it cleared. I've still been testing every night and morning with the drop test. My FC doesn't show any change over night and the...

Yeah! :cheers: I'm digging this. My daughter beat me home today so she's already put jr in the pool. We had a pretty good rain all day yesterday so this morning there was quiet a bit of leaves, pine needles and these other pine things we get this time of the year. I just went out and checked...

Welcome to the forum. I second the advice to follow ivyleague's advice. If you follow the advice of these guys and post pics of how the pool is changing and what you are seeing, these guys will get your pool sparkly at the least cost. Don't be tempted to mix in pool store advice or chemicals. Be...

So excited for the first time in the evening I had a FC of >1. Last night my reading was: fc 3.5 cc .5 tc 4 ph 7.2 Water looks WONDERFUL. Just turned cold again. Water is back down to 68 degrees. But today and the rest of the week it's supposed to be in the high 80's. Sad thing is this weekend...

I can tell you I just got my pool roover jr and I'm in love with it. It arrived thursday. I ran it once thursday night. then my daughter ran it on Friday once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Then I ran it on Saturday morning. Sunday I did a manual to waste as I had alot of fine stuff...