Recent content by Vangar2012

AndyTN, just curious if you ever got your pool warm in the Spring. We are in the same predicament. Live in west KY and would like to start warming the pool in April and May but the stuff falling from the trees make it impossible to use our solar cover during this time. I’m toying with using our...

Day 11 of my SLAM. I did the overnight test last night and we only lost 1 ppm FC so I'm ready to start lowering the FC and checking my other chemicals. We got our concrete deck this week (FINALLY!) and got the furniture set out. Planning on a swim this weekend for our Mothers Day cookout we are...

Tuesday: 8:00 am FC 18 9:30 am FC 17 1:45 pm 17 4:00 pm 12 (aded bleach) 8:00 pm 19.5 Wednesday 7:30 am FC 17 10:30 am FC 17 1:30 pm 15.5 (added bleach since we would be gone all afternoon until bedtime) Thursday 6:00 am 14.5 10:45 am 13.5 Does where I get a sample from (deep end or shallow...

I haven't been taking pics. The pics I took this morning I sent to hubby because he's been out of town since Sunday...he even said "looks like it did when I left!" I'm not seeing much FC loss during the day. I haven't really added much bleach this week. We've been cloudy with low temps this...

I am testing about every 2-3 hours. I'm running our auto-vac all day, off at night. I'm brushing it every day, but maybe i'm doing it wrong or not brushing hard enough. I didn't think brushing would hard to figure out lol. No debris in the bottom. We do have seed squiggly things falling off...

Sand filter. A big one, 30". This pic is today, day 4 of SLAM and it looks like day 1 still.

Thank you! I will stop testing the other stuff in the pool :) Newbie over reaction! I will brush, brush, brush today! I'm running the auto-vac during the day. I don't know much about the filter psi...I'll be honest, I was just backwashing it every couple to 3 days. I'll read up on here about...

Can someone take a look at my SLAM results from this morning? This is day 3 of SLAM and I can't tell any difference in our green pool :( Pool math says to add some calcium chloride and stabilizer, which earlier in the week it was advised to wait on the other chemicals. So I just wait and test...

Gotchya :) I didn't know that about testing with back to the sun. Thank you for the help!

Yay! I was hoping someone would tell me that! I don't have any other chemicals on hand at home and would have to make a trip to town this evening :) So, I'll test again in the morning and add bleach if needed again to get to that 20 FC SLAM level from earlier or do I recalculate the the FC...

Hi all, so I started a SLAM on our pool this morning, added chemicals and have gotten the below results this evening: Now Goal FC 29 20 (SLAM level from this morning calculations) pH 8 7.5 TA 80 65 CH 125 150 Cya 30 40 CC 1.5 When I entered into Pool...

Thanks for the advice! We have the pump and filter going, and our robot cleaner in the pool. Can I get some help on the SLAM chemicals? TIA! Below are my tests from this morning: 40,000 gallon vinyl inground Now Goal FC 4.5 ppm 5 pH 7.5 7.5 TA 40 65 CH 50 ppm 150...