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I didn't know where to post this. I have about 4 old bottles of muriatic acid. How do I dispose of them?

We have a nice cover, but we haven't used it in a few years. This year we are having a lot of leaves. We need to put the cover on, but the rail at the steps and the ladder will not come loose for us to remove them. Hubby has used Liquid Wrench with no luck. Any suggestions?

When our liner was replaced, our pool light was not reinstalled properly. The light quit working, and there was rust everywhere including the glass and the faceplate. We scrubbed and scrubbed, and it’s barely visible on the glass. Hubby has ordered a new light. My concern is the face plate that...

My pool holds 25,000 gallons. How much water would I need to displace to get it from 100 to 75 or 80?

We never totally closed our pool down here. I'm ready to get going for the Spring and of course no bleach of any kind anywhere, so I got some pucks for now. Here are my levels: Chlorine 1 pH 7.4 TA 50 CYA 55 I didn't check the salt level because the test and the SWG usually say very...

So where to start? We got a swg this year and used it through the summer, loved it! In the winter, we don't close our pool completely down. We just run the pump if the temp gets below 32 deg. I think we've run it once this winter. Anyway, it's supposed to get cold tonight, so hubby went out to...

I need some stablizier. The one from Leslie's works and lasts, but it's pricey and seems to take a long time to dissolve (yes, I use the panty hose trick). Also, they're closed right now. Does anyone have any experience with the Pool Time from Home Depot?

I am going salt for the first time and just got a new liner. Salt test kit is on order and is a K1766 kit. The unit is a CircuPool RJ-45. It should be here Friday. Pool is filling now, and based on what I know about our pool guys, I can probably start running the filter on Tuesday. I’ve been...

So I started off with a dark green pool. I've been slamming, brushing, vacuuming. The water is now light green, and I'm not seeing an improvement. I have fiberglass steps, and I can see a definite area where steps meet pool floor. I have a ladder, and I can see all 3 rungs. But I can't really...

Our liner has split. We do have a piece to patch it with. The color will be off, but we are trying to make it through this season. As you can see from the attached picture, the water level is down some. You'll notice that the liner has pulled out from the wall some, but it is attached at the...

I have come a long way, but my CYA is 60, and I have a question. I added less stabilizer than was called for, thank goodness. I was aiming for 30. Anyway, based on the chart, it looks like I should take the chlorine level to 24. Won't that bleach out my vinyl liner? I know my only other option...

Last summer our pump broke at the end of the season, ordered new one and hubby plans to install this week-end. We did lower the water below the skimmer and returns before winter. The pool water is dark green. I've been through this before. I went through SO MANY bottles of bleach before my...

I've had pools for years, but I'm having a brain fog I guess. Here's the deal. We didn't close our pool down this winter. We just run the pump any time that the temp was freezing or below. I've had a lot going on over the past couple of months and have been distracted. My pool is now a dark...

Hopefully I can get this picture to post. I have two streams of water coming down the side of the filter. Don't know if this means anything, but we recently replaced the spider gasket because I was losing a lot of water, and it was going out the backwash line. Anyway, I did have a slight leak...

My husband is a musician, and he's playing outdoors at a military thing on a lake. It looks like I will stay home and keep the grandkids, ages 6 and 3. If the weather's nice, the three of us will be in our pool all day. BTW, you guys just got me through a mess with the pool, and now I feel...

I'm thinking about getting an iPhone, the old one, not the newest one. Can anyone offer pros and cons? I would be changing from Verizon to AT&T.

I don't have a SWG, but I know I need one. Here are my questions. I saw that the salt comes in large bags. Where do you get them - pool store? How much are they? How big are the bags? About how many bags would I need to get started and then about how often do you have to put more in? Would I...

I have an area in the middle of the shallow end on the pool bottom that looks like several rust spots. I got a new liner last year, and I'm not sure when I first noticed the spots, but it was sometime this season. We did not cover our pool over the winter. I don't remember seeing anything...

I'll give you a little background first. I got a new liner last year, and after that, I could not get my pool clear. I was not following the BBB method carefully, but I was using bleach. Anyway, same thing at the beginning of this year, water not clear. Also, I would get big foamy green clumps...

I am in the process of adding stabilizer to my pool. It gets full sun most of the day, and I use bleach only. I've put it in the skimmer in some pantyhose. I read somewhere to check CYA level in 5 days. Here are my questions: (1) What level should I shoot for? (2) How soon can I backwash? (3)...

The screw that held our light in disintegrated, and we need a new screw. The light is a Hayward L-61-38-47. does anyone know where I can get one?