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Hi Everyone! Our inground pool was shut down for a month while we retiled and plastered. We just filled it with water and I was doing the pool start up instructions for new plaster - I went to hook up the vacuum and noticed where there is usually suction, it was blowing. And where there was...

Hello! After 6 years of pool ownership, I finally did it - I bought a robotic pool cleaner (Dolphin Sigma). One thing that isn’t clear to me is how to care for it. It has the ability to set a schedule, but do you just leave it in the pool? Do you need to rinse it when you take it out? Feels too...

Hello! The sealant between our pool coping and concrete deck needs to be replaced (see pictures). I asked a pool repair person in the area to take a look and he said he would do a new sand base and mastic install. This is one thing I don’t have any education on. Does that sound correct? Any...

Hello! Since I bought this house with our salt water pool awhile ago, we’ve had tons of trouble with calcium hardness. I’ve never seen lower than 700. Los Angeles hard water mixed with pH rising hourly haha - I can’t win! I stayed on top of it really well until this past year when I had to...

Hello! As of this morning, my pump has taken on air. Pool level is filled, no leaves in any filters, jandy dev60 filter doesn't seem to have any air leaks (we broke down and cleaned it about 2 months ago, so it hasn't been touched since then). I'm not sure what else to look for and was hoping...

Hello! The weirdest thing is happening and I'm hoping someone can help. On the sides of my pool, something green-ish is showing up on the walls that comes off once we brush. I immediately assume algae so I get out my test kit and ... nothing. I get no CC when doing the drop test. I have done it...

Hello! I have had my hot tub going for almost a week now, and I have a question about the chlorine levels. My hot tub this morning was at FC 5.5ppm CC: 0. I went in the hot tub and measured the chlorine again when I got out, just to get a feel for what happens. When I got out, FC was at 4 and...

Hello! Have my hot tub all hooked up and chemicals are balanced well (just finishing up the dichlor part of the process and almost ready for bleach). Anyway, I have a question about the water level. Where it is now, it covers the very top jets halfway. When I look at the two filters, they are...

Brand new to hot tub life (still waiting for electrician to run the line, so haven't even set it up yet), but I had a couple of questions. For reference, I will be using the dichlor-to-bleach route. How do I add chemicals to a spa? Do the pumps need to be running? From what I've read, it seems...

I just received our new hot tub and plan on using the diclor- chlorine method that was outlined here. I do have a random question though! I received tons of Spa Water Polish with this hot tub that they say to add 1 bottle monthly (it also says it helps to keep the FC requirement at 1 .... Yeah)...

pH 7.2 TA 50 CH 775 CYA 60 TC 6 In SoCal, calcium hardness is my troublespot. 775 is after emptying half the pool during spring (and now it's too hot out here to bother again until fall...), so I try to keep my pH at 7.2 to keep my hardness from going up. In the process, my TA has started going...

There are a few "chips" in our concrete pool coping that we need to patch. When I got closer and touched it, underneath the concrete is a very squishy type of material. What is this? Is it normal and safe to use normal concrete sealers? Our coping got eaten up a bit when randomly, with our...

Chlorine: 6 PH: 7.8 (just added acid... Should be around 7.4) TA: 70 CYA: 40-45 CH: 800 Salt: 2960 So the weirdest thing is happening, and I thought Id start here first! I live in Los Angeles county (Santa Clarita valley area) and we've had some rain lately. All around the concrete outside my...

Hi all! Hope everyone's summer is going well. I have a quick question. Since I took over the pool about 6 months ago, my CH has been a problem (~1000) and I will take care of it once summer winds down a bit by doing some drains. In the meantime, to help keep that under control as best I can, I...

Hello all! Our salt water pool is about 4 years old now (we've only lived here for a year), but I think in SoCal with so little rain... The salt is cracking our concrete a bit (pictures below). I have a couple of questions: 1) how can I fix these cracks? Is there something that works wells to...

Hello all! Random question for everyone as I am just trying to understand how all of these pool chemicals work. I have been working to get my CYA levels up from 0 (I am now at 60) and with my SWG working at 30%, my FC shot up to 6- pretty exciting, considering this time last year CYA was zero...

Hello all! Hope you're doing well. I had a question for you about my salt level. My Jandy AquaPure is saying I have a level of 3400, but when I use the aqua check strip, it is telling me ~3000 and when I use the Taylor test kit I get 3200. Is one more accurate than the other? One would assume...

Hello all! I did a backwash the other day and I don't think I did it quite long enough. I swore the water was running clear by the time I stopped and then I added 80% of the amount of DE that is called for. Then today, I went to release some air from the filter because I had just put the vacuum...

Hello all! Question for you... I have been working hard to lower my CH level with partial drains (started with 1100 and now around 750). However, because the chemicals were out of whack with our pool guy for so long, the CH left white on the entire pool. You can see distinct locations where the...

Hi Everyone! I am getting ready to do the first backwash of my filter since firing the pool guy and I just want to make sure I am ready to go. I have a DE filter (Jandy DEV 60) that requires 6 lbs of DE. When I do a backwash, how much DE do I put back into the skimmer? The full 6lbs or only a...

Hi Everyone! It's been a month of reading this forum and finally taking on pool duties myself (thanks everyone!!). I just purchased the speedstir and we may have a problem... Here are my results "swirling by hand" FC: 4 CC: 0 Other numbers that stay constant, regardless if I used speedstir...

Hi Everyone! When I started doing this pool thing on my own last month, my pool actually had 0 CYA in it (the pool guy we had for one year never added any). On Sunday, March 31, I added a gallon of liquid CYA to the pool. 2 days later, my CYA level was at 50. 3 days after that, it was at 40 and...

I am all over this forum today :) I live in Los Angeles and am desperate to get this reverse osmosis done. I called Pool Service Technologies (company that was mentioned on this forum) and was told they won't come all the way up here to do it (they are closer to San Diego). Does anyone know of a...

I have a SWCG and a 13,000 gal pool. I live in Los Angeles and electric rates actually went up 15% this year. What is a good run time? Can I split the time between day and night to save money, since we are on a tiered system? I have a two speed pump. When we run the pump during the day...

Hi Everyone! We just bought a house with our first pool one year ago and, because it was our first, we hired a pool guy. Now, I have just fired him for multiple reasons and am attempting to do this on my own. I live in Southern California where the water is extremely hard- need a new coffee...