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    Getting rid of nitrates?

    My pool has mustard algea that I cannot get rid of. Water is clear, just growht on the walls. My free chlorine level is always low. Pool store guy told me I have nitrates from lawn fertilizer that got into the pool and this is what is eating up the chlorine. He told me to lower my water...
  2. J

    cleaning the filter

    My pressure has been around 28-30lbs for the last week or so. I backwashed today to get it back down around 20 psi. Soonafter i did it was back up to 28. is opening the filter and washing the fins inside the filter normal maintenance? How often? How do you clean it? if i open the filter...
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    added hardness control - Ph dropped

    On sunday my ph was 8.0 and my hardness was 140ppm. the pool store computer told me to add 4 lbs of ph down and 25 lbs of hardness control. I added the ph down on sunday night and only 7 lbs of the harness control on monday and another 7 lbs yesterday. Today my ph was 7.2. is there a...
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    Discrepancy in Test numbers

    I am new to the site (yesterday). yesterday i bought a new pool tesitng kit form Leslie's so i can calculate both Total Chlorine and Free Chlorine. When i got the new kit, i tested for all number and they were off from my prior test kit. Old test kit (a Pentair kit i got with my pool but...
  5. J

    To BBB or not to BBB?

    THis will be my fourth summer season with my pool. Generally I have had luck keeping it clean with the standard fare of shocking every two weeks and chlorinating as recommended by the pool builder (Sylvan). Every once in a while I'll get algea growth on some of the walls for no apparent reason...