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Well, I am officially at a loss. I bought a house (family owned) about 7 years ago, that had a very old (1988 install) doughboy above ground pool. The pool is above ground style with a vinyl liner, but actually is built in ground with an expanded liner giving it an 8 foot deep end, and a 3 foot...

So I bought a home a couple years ago with a very old pool that came with it. The ground around the pool is caving in and crushing the sides, and I don't think the pool will last but a few more seasons. I am in midwest where we get heavy freezes in the winter. I put the filter away but I just...

Ok, so I'm not sure what happened honestly. I am not the first owner of the pool and I did not do the initial plumping, nor do I know anything about the plumbing except how to hook it up and make it go. I will say that I have been caring for the pool for about 8 years and I've never had much of...

So I read the sticky, and maybe I am confused but it said robotic cleaners were a LOT more expensive than I am seeing on In The Swim and Dohenys (the two places I usually buy pool supplies). That said I have no idea what I should get. I don't want to spend over 500, and the cheaper the better as...

Found some from a reputable (seems) seller on eBay 40 dollars for 25 pounds? Is there something better? I don't really like to use ebay but he has thousands of good reviews.

Still pretty new pool owner with a very old pool. Just opened the pool today for the year. I don't know anything about pool standards really. So my questions are; Are they standard? Mine is very old, can I just get a new one and it still fits because of standards or no? If they are standard...

So, this pool has been in my family for 25 years. Honestly everything around it is shot to heck. The deck had to be removed, liner replaced. The landscaping around it is honestly ugly. I bought this house from my family in October. If I had the money or the income to just excavate the whole darn...

So the pool was green when I opened it. I knew I had to shock it. CYA was at 0, FC was at 0. I put in 9lb of CYA to raise my CYA to inbetween 30-40. Let that run for two days. Then last night I put in enough liquid chlorine to raise it to 16 (the shock level for 40 CYA). I do my tests this...

Hello, so my skimmer basket basically shattered (it was very old and brittle), I'm not sure how to go about finding out how to replace it? I found one website "aqua-man.com" but it didn't help. The top diameter is 4 1/4 in, and it seems to be either 5in, or 5 1/2 inch in height depending on how...

Yeah.. I need/want to aerate my water, to raise the pH, doing everything right according to the calculator from now on. :) I can't think of a good way to do this however. I have a 1/4hp sub pump at my disposal, or I could just buy a fountain, but yeah might as well use what I have if I can. Does...

I know its sacrilegious but I take my water into a a shop to get it tested, last year you guys had me talked into getting my own proper kit, but being nearly color blind I doubt I could use it well. Anyway, had my pool opened for a couple months now with crystal clear water, looks better than...

Is there a chart (or even an equation) one can use to calculate the ph changefrom adding dry stabilizer? I know it has a ph of about 2.8, but I don't know what to do with that information. If you increase your CYA by 10, 20, or 30 ppm is there an easy way to figure out the ph change you are...

My buddy has a pool similar to mine, except its 25k gallons and not 30k. He needs to raise his CYA 30 ppm, and that would be ~6 pounds of CYA. The instructions just say to add it to the skimmer but I was curious if there was a "better" or more correct way to do so, and also how much should he...

So, my TA is a little high, not to much I'd like it lower but its not to the point where I need to mess with it, and PH is honestly perfect. At this point I'm just trying to get my water crystal clear and silky. So going to start fussing with the borates and see what I can do. I know that if...

I know this post isn't going to follow the guidelines at the sticky of the thread, and this is because the pool in question isn't my own and right now I don't know anything about it, besides the fact its 30-35,000 gallons and has cartridge filters. I'm in an awkward situation where a friend of...

Hello all, I made a post here a few days ago about the local pool store telling me I needed 105 pounds of Calcium plus. Well regardless TFP helped me figure out that I only needed 50ppm for my 30,000 gallon vinyl pool. As opposed to the 200-500ppm the store said I needed. I don’t know much...

Our pool is very old, over thirty years. It’s an above ground, 30,000 gallon, vinyl lining pool. Usually we just take our water into Ace Hardware, or a pool supply store in our little and get it tested and then follow the instructions. Usually our pool for opening it for the year is alright...