Recent content by Zoltan

Clarity now improved to seeing 3ft bottom inlets. Added 6 10oz doses of Bio-gard's Natural Clarifier and have replaced about 10% of the water every day....but still can't see to 8ft bottom so the pool stays closed. Fortunately, the weather in Seattle is awful. The tested values are all still...

Cloudiness has not improved at all

Water test results: [Taylor test kit] TC: 5+ FC: 5+ pH: 7.5 TA: 90 CYA: 80 CA Hard. : 160 Results from pool store done within 1hr of first test: TC: 5 FC: 5 pH: 7.6 TA: 69 CYA: 100 CA Hard. : 194 Pump always on. Brushed 2x...no effect. Turned on heater this AM. Thanks

One of my homeowners, in an attempt to help me get the pool [60,000gal.] open for the season, added at least 10lbs! of soda ash, not dissolved, to the pool [cold water] to raise the ph just 2pts.....misread charts. Pool very cloudy, can't see drain in 3ft! Help!!

Welcome, Tinley Park from another newbie. I lived in Park Forest for 15 years and spent alot of time in your fair city. One of your cops is a boyhood friend of one of my sons.

Old guy [for a 'pool boy']. Been at this pool thing for a year and on TFP for a month. First time I've joined/posted on a forum....so be patient with me. TFP has finally made sense of the whole pool chemistry process for me and has saved my ancient kiester more than once already. The pool sits...

New guy, first post. I recently replaced the quartz halogen bulb in my underwater pool light with a tungsten bulb. The light works but it looks like the fixture is full of water...is that possible? I'm not a big fan of electricity, thanks to a couple of close calls, and am of the opinion that...