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I'm not sure which area to post this. I don't have my chemistry to post along with this but I can say I've been a member for quite a while and I'm familiar with the process. We had tons of rain this week and with one of the storms, we had a stream of water from behind our house run dirt directly...

I'm not exactly sure how to ask what I'm thinking, but I'll do my best. I struggle with keeping my levels of chlorine in line with where they should be. Mainly just the season of life I'm in (super busy mom), and also because I don't have the best habits with the pool. I've been a member of...

We just replaced our motor the other day. Unfortunately it's leaking water. My husband took the motor apart and checked everything to find the new seal assembly he had just installed to be cracked. We went and purchased a new seal assembly. He put that in to find we still have a leak. I've...

All I can think of is Monty Python. We have ants that are literally dropping their dead into our pool. It started last season. Has anyone ever experienced this, and if so (or even if not), do you have any tips on how we can discourage this? Attached is a picture of how many ants I skimmed in...

FC - 11 pH - 7.2 TA - 70 CYA - 50 CH - 240 Recently brought calcium up from 170 to what it is now at 240. Would that cause cloudy water? We have battled algae but that's all cleared up and we're just left with the cloudy water. I realize TA could be higher as well. Would it be safe to swim in...

I've read the instructions for how to get rid of black algae. I do think we have a small amount. I rubbed pucks on some spots yesterday and noticed today the spots are gone. A couple of questions: - Is it safe to swim with black algae in the pool, especially if it's a small amount? (a few...

We've noticed some hairline cracks in our gunite recently. It's been about six years since we've had it resurfaced, which seems a little early for problems like this. Is this normal, do you think?

I'm not sure if this is black algae or not. Can you walk me through how to tell? Last year I did a poor job of keeping our chlorine levels where they needed to be. I just finished the opening process of fully testing my water, increasing calcium, CYA, lowering pH and getting chlorine up. The...

Our shallow end skimmer has had low suction for quite some time now. We've let it go because the deep end skimmer has always pulled its weight, and truthfully, we've put a lot of money into the pool since buying this home, and we need a little break. However, it seems (to me) that the deep end...

I just added calcium. I searched the forum but couldn't find anything easy on how long to run the pool afterwards. Thank you!

There was a small amount of algae on my deep end wall this morning. I added extra chlorine, brushed the pool, left the house for a few hours. When I came back, all still looked good (water was clear to begin with and the algae wasn't even in its normal spot for when we begin to get an algae...

Pool cleaners overwhelm me a bit. Currently we have a Polaris 360 that we're having trouble with. It's been fine until last year. My husband's done everything to try and get it working to no avail. I'm researching different cleaners. When I got the 360, I did so because a friend has one...

Pool cleaners overwhelm me a bit. Currently we have a Polaris 360 that we're having trouble with. It's been fine until last year. My husband's done everything to try and get it working to no avail. I'm researching different cleaners. When I got the 360, I did so because a friend has one and...

I'm aware of high chlorine affecting pH levels, but I'm wondering if it also affects CYA, TA and CH. We thought we saw black algae in the pool last night and once I realized we didn't have any chlorine (I know, I know) in the pool, I quickly added bleach so the brushing we did wasn't for...

I need to add some sequestrant to the pool. We use well water only and I know it's got metals in there, and we're getting some staining that we can't get out of the pool. I checked my container with pool stuff and found something called "Metal free" made by "Natural Chemistry." I don't see...

I'm potentially going to be going to a friend's house to test her water and introduce her to TFP. I've got the macdaddy kit (can't remember the number of it, you know what I'm talking about though!) so I can pretty much show her how to test it all. I don't have a SWG, though, so I'm trying to...

I should have done a full test on my pool when we opened, but all looked good, and, well...here goes: FC: 4 CC: 0 TC: 4 pH: 7.5 TA: 70 CH: 120 (yikes!) CYA: 20-30 (I could just call it 25. It's hard to tell. Did the test a few times. We've had a lot of rain and we vacuumed to waste recently...

Apparently worms plentiful this year, and they're enjoying our pool a little too much. They are staining the bottom of my pool, and I'm looking for a way to remove the stains from them. I know in the past with stains like these, usually time does the trick, however in this case, after...

We had a torrential downpour the other day and woke up to a dirty pool. And I mean dirty. Dirt and debris took over the pool. We've balanced it and vacuumed several times. There is a touch of algae, but when I brush the pool, it's brown gunky stuff that I see being brushed around. A friend...

FC: 10 CC: 0 TC: 13 pH: 7.5 TA: 90 CH: 240 CYA: 70 So I tested the water a couple of days ago and chlorine was at 13. Today it's at 10. We have only been using pucks and there was no reason for the pool to be at 13 the other day with only one puck in our skimmer. It was the 26th when...

I've been using TFP for several years for maintaining my pool. I a firm believer in it. I have a few flaws of my own, however, that have been preventing me from having an algae-free pool. With small children that I'm chasing after, I haven't been putting maintaining my pool chemistry as a...

Trying to find out if I should partially drain pool prior to shocking and adding polyquat to (finally) close my pool. Current readings: FC: 7 CC: 0.5 TC: 6.5 TA: 100 CH: 260 CYA: 70 (slightly above) I don't necessarily mind draining to get CYA back down closer to 50, but if you all don't...

I'm not sure where the best place to post this is, so hope this is okay. We have noticed that our tools and my husband's golf clubs are starting to rust in our garage. Quick research online is leading me to wonder if the chemicals (bleach, pucks, leftover shock that we never use anymore...

So I am very busy with two children. I stay at home with them, but I have such a crazy schedule that I keep forgetting (and putting off) to add bleach to my pool every other day. I keep getting algae...my own fault, I know. Is there something sold out there that isn't outrageously priced that...

What is the best way to clean the Polaris if it's come into contact with algae? Can we just run it while shocking the pool or is that bad for it?

We just reopened our inground pool. We haven't run it yet because our attached spa (that has a water spillover thing) had really bad nasty smelling algae, so we drained the spa. My husband is working on cleaning the surface of the spa because it appears to be stained. It almost looks like...

Sorry if this is a repetitive question but I haven't seen anything that addresses it...when is the best time to open my pool? I live in South Carolina. Is there a certain water temperature I should be waiting for? Thanks!

Hope I don't get in trouble for doing this, but we're trying to close our pool this week and I've got several questions...I need a bit of hand holding if possible...I only got a partial response in the thread where I originally posted...any help would be greatly appreciated! Is there anyone who...

Last year we were told to drain our spa when we covered our pool and spa. We later realized that was a mistake, as all the water that got on the cover over the spa caused the cover to be pulled. We rigged up a way to keep that from happening by putting a wooden board across the spa. This year...

The other day I became suspicious that I wasn't using enough DPD powder for my OCLT testing. I tested my water 3 times the other night and got different results each time (frustrating). I decided last night to use 2 heaping scoops of the DPD powder (goal FC was 20) and came up with result of...