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I swear last year I ordered a complete refill kit for my TFP test kit. I am not finding it on the website now. Is that still an option instead of ordering refills of each thing individually? I only need fresh chemicals...I am out of CYA testing reagent and usually just order completely new...

We are having our liner fixed. PB agreed to fix it at no cost to us except refill water, which we are fine with. We had to move field lines to put in pool. Old field lines were left running right into overdig. When it rained the rainwater went right to the gravel beds and to the liner. We...

This will be out 3rd full summer with the pool. Previously we have been running the pump 24/7. I want to avoid the $750 electric bill we had. We have a heat pump, SWG, slide and 3 deck jets. I assume they will not work if the filter is off. Last year I ran my SWG at about 20-25% all season...

When we had the pool built in Sept. 07 we had a Pool Frog Mineral thing plumbed in line with the pool. We did not get a new cartridge last year as I read more about it and decided I did not want the "minerals" in my pool water. Do I need to cut it out or can I jsut not put a cartridge in it...

We are having the pool opened this week. The PB is opening it because there is no way we can get our solid safety cover into that little bag they get it into. We did loosen one end of it and got some water out for a preliminary water test. It was better than I expected. (Tested with the TF...

We had a huge storm yesterday. Chairs blew around, plants tipped over, lots of debris in pool. I immediately put the cleaner in and checked the skimmers. The shallow end was not too bad but definitely had lots of potting soil and peat moss in it. Cleaned it out. the deep end skimmer was...

Latest test numbers: FC 6 CC 0 TC 6 TA 80 CH 260 pH 7.4 CYA last time I tested it was between 80-90, closer to 90, about 2 weeks ago. (PB also overdosed this, uugghhh) Water temp 90 I have been working on bringing my TA down from 140 where it was when PB opened the pool in April. I had thought...

We have a liner pool, new last Sept. We have had a lot of rain lately and last night my girls noticed the liner was "mushy" in spots. I went out and sure enough there was water behind it. The water level in the pool never went above the coping. We have the pool crete on the bottoms and side...

I just got my TF refill kit with the salt test. How often should I test the salt? I backwash at least once a week, more if my filter pressure rises from 18 (clean pressure) to 22. I have the readout on my Goldline control but know not to trust that wholeheartedly. Also, how often do you do...

I have the Polaris 280. Right now I have it on a timer to run from 2am-7am every day. I am trying to figure out if that is overkill or not. We have no trees in our yard, pool is full sun, only thing around it is a 3 foot wide river rock bed with pots of different flowers, nothing planted in...

We have an L shaped pool. Currently we use a heat pump but do not have a solar cover. Can I even get a solar cover with a reel system for an L shaped pool? We use it so much, well the kids, I don't want to have to do it by hand every morning. I also don't want something that is tacky, is...

I am planning to add borates to about 50ppm to help with my acid usage. According to the pool calc. I need about 140 lbs of borax and 70 lbs of acid!! Can I do this in intervals through the span of about a month or 2 or should I do it all at once? If I do it in intervals is there a certain...

Our Hayward Heat Pump went off last night and was flashing an LS error code. According to my book that means low/no flow. I have my Polaris 280 on a timer to come on from 3am-7am every morning. Last night was the only night we had a problem. The low was in the lower 60's so it was not temp...

I did not routinely dose algecide last season. But we only had from early Sept to Late October before closing. PB left 2 full bottles of Algecide at opening and I can't decide if I need to use this routinely. They did put a full bottle in at opening. It is Pool Season Algae Control 60. I...

We have a SWG and I have to add about 3-4 cups of dry acid each week, usually 2 cups about 2 times a week. I don't add it all at once. I let the pH get up to about 7.8 then drop it to about 7.4. I was reading some other threads about dry acid adding sulfates. What is the result of sulfates in...

I saw in another post the JasonLion referenced temperature having an affect on CYA readings. How does that work? Upon closing last October, my pool was heated to 90 degrees and the CYA was at about 65. At opening last week the CYA is reading about 80. We have not turned on the heat pump yet...

I did another full water test yesterday. I checked the CL/CYA chart in the stickies and it says I should have a target FC of about 9, min ~6. The pool calculator says for SWG FC of 3 is OK. Which should I shoot for? I don't use algecide so really want to prevent an outbreak. Though PB did...

We just opened the pool for the first time Wedesday. There is a slight brown line at the water line on my white fiberglass steps in the shallow end and the swim out in the deep end. I got some kind of thick blue cleaner from the pool store but it is not doing much. I am afraid it is from our...

We had our pool installed last September. We closed it at the end of October. We had a solid safety cover on it and the water was in very good shape yesterday when the PB opened it. We paid them to do it as hubby does not want to have to mess with the massive cover. They cleaned it and...

We had our pool finished in Sept of 07. We swam in it until late Oct then closed it with a solid safety cover. We are planning to open it late March and seal the concrete. We have a 28x43x18 True L with radius corners. We added lots of extra concrete. There is 12 feet of concrete along the...

I smelled chlorine in my pool Saturday night. I know that is not normal. So I tested it Sunday morning withy my TF kit. Got FC of 11.5 and CC of 1.5. I have never had any CC. I use the SWCG and no one has been swimming in about 2 weeks, we turned off the heat pump. I check levels once a...

I don't know why I keep taking my water to the pool store, but we had to go to town and it was on the way so I took it. Their numbers are: FC 3.7 TC 3.9 CH 240 TA 90 pH 7.7 CYA 68 I came home and used my TF test it and got different numbers. I am more trusting of my kit...is that right... My...

PB left some Pool Perfect here. For my pool it says to use 5 caps a week. Is this just a useless additive or will it reall help with the lines and such? I do scrub the swim out and steps each week with cleaner and a brush. I do the top of the liner with my brish once every 2 weeks.

I have the TF test kit ordered. Scheduled for delivery tomorrow. PB left 2 different inds of test strips here for me. I get different readings with both. So today I took my water to the pool store. (The pool is about 3 weeks old) FC 2.2 TC 2.2 pH 7.8 CH 320 TA 100 CYA 35 They told me to...

I read something about Lowes. Where in there would it be there? My local stores like that don't stock pool chemicals, not year round at least. Is the pool store my only option as pool stuff has been clearanced out at those kinds of stores now? My pH is high, about 8.2. The pool store is...

We are new pool owners. The pool is about 2 weeks old. The PB "released" us Saturday. Of course, we can always call with questions. He did a great job of educating the hubby and I. I am currently using the test strips they left here. There are 2 different kinds. I get different readings...