Recent content by V___25

The fact that you've lived there for 5 years through PA winters and spring seasons and the pool has not overflowed and you've not drained it gives me concern that it doesn't hold water and that it just keeps refilling. I lowered our pool this fall well below the returns at closing and by early...

I'm so excited I can finally play this game for the season. After opening on Friday and spending a rainy weekend babysitting FC levels, I got the CYA sock going today. Lots of brushing and clearing dead algae. I'm also waiting for my new batch of dpd powder and R0871 reagent to arrive Thursday...

Once we see your test results, I'm curious if you might have ammonia in your pool. One of the signs is the inability to hold chlorine and with adding 16 gallons and then 13 gallons of LC and it going to zero both times could be a sign. But let's what your full results are :-)

There are several experts who live in the Southwest region that will probably be along to help further but you may want to consider the No Drain Water Exchange method. They can also comment on your CH issues as many of them experience extremely hard water. For you CYA round up to 80 - you...

I feel you. I missed the window on opening clear this year too. We open our pool ourselves but have a company close it and opening it is super easy. I had about 1/2 a home depot bucket worth of worms in the bottom of my pool. Super gross so I did net those out and I did it blindly which sucks...

and the pool is green :-( We had temps in the 80's all week, but water temp is barely 60*. There are so many worms and it smells so bad. I am sad.

Some days, that's accurate. She knows if she pushes hard enough, water will come up through.

I ordered a new basket for my robot because like a dummy, I left the other one sit outside all winter and it cracked. Tried to super glue it but no such luck. Oh and I renewed my TFP gold supporter donation status. Does that count?! Other than that, I just stare at my cold, covered, pool and...

:oops::oops: {{jealousy}} I'll get in at 78! I'd prefer 80 but we won't get there until July if we're lucky. Right now, it's still too cold to even take the cover off.

We won't open the pool for another few weeks yet but with all the rain we've had, I had to crack a corner of the cover and get the sump pump in there to start lowering the water. This is shallow end, the basket thing the pump is sitting on is on the bottom so it's not looking too bad. Plenty of...

Sorry about that, my confusion! I had to take pictures of the pump itself because there are no labels or anything. I assume by the H its a Hayward but that's all I know.