Recent content by trinity41

We had 2 big dust storms this week, so I figured that I better brush the 1" of dirt that sits at the bottom and run the pump for a couple of days. We had the pump motor running on filter for 3 or 4 days. Turned it off to change to backwash and then restart the motor. The motor did not start...

Thanks, John! It's amazing how much it changed after that first treatmenat. And it looks better from the 2nd floor for some reason, but hey, I'm elated!! :-D Wendy

More questions !!!! I put 2088 oz. of cl in yesterday. Of course with the shape that my pool is in, I didn't expect it to register. I bought 34 gal of 96oz. (3264oz.) just a while ago. From what I gather on other posts, I should be putting this in in the evening. My test kit does not test...

It is one weird shaped pool!! Oval on the deep end, rectangular on the shallow end, but on one side where it starts to get deeper, they cemented or just left an area where they could put a free standing hot tub. My son took a pix of it from the 2nd story. I measured the width from the left...

I went to Walmart and bougt 12 large jugs of ultra bleach. Almost ran a lady over. Very hard to stop the cart. :lol: I used the pool calculator and it said that I had around 60,000 gal of water. It's a weird shape, but I measured as directed. 58,000 + is what it said. That just seems...

John, Thanks so much for the info. On my way to Wal-mart to get the bleach. BTW, I have a sand filter and the gage is broken. Is this easy to replace, and if so is a pool store the only place to buy one? So, if I read it right, put the filter on recirculate? Do I need to backwash first...

I have an inground pool that looks like a really bad swamp. We have frogs living in it! We started out the season just wanting the pool people to give it a good vacuum. I live in west Texas and we had about 1/2 inch of dirt/mud at the bottom of the pool. We were having problems vacuuming it...