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ok, I've been doing BBB for a few years now, thanks to the help of this board. I though I had a good handle on it but I am stumped! my pool has been a hazy green for a few days now. at first I thought algae <uggh> and shocked it into submission. when the levels were high enough and there was...

I opened my pool a few weeks ago and things have been going along good. I've been running the filter on and off (mostly on because I forget to shut it off for days at a time) and testing to make sure things are relatively normal, even though there wasn't any swimming--the water was still only...

thanks to a lot of great advice here I went ahead and bought a mesh winter cover for my above ground pool. closing went like a breeze, and all has been well until now. I'm in massachusetts and we have gotten slammed with more snow before jan 1 than I think we got all last winter combined...it's...

I've been using the HTH 5 way test kit all season without a glitch so I figure why fix something that isn't broken...but I just went out and tested tonight only to see some really strange results! the chlorine side was yellow with the first couple of drops but by the 5th it had turned an ugly...

anyone here own the catfish vac that is like the pool buster? I have been searching around for a good price on the pool buster today and a few results that came back were for the catfish by pool blaster. any opinions on how well this catfish works? it's a little cheaper than the pool buster...

I had a huge disaster that involved broken sand bags and a clogged pump this week...I still have a little bit of sand in the pool I need to get out but now I'm afraid to vacuum ANY amount of sand and kill another pump. how else do you get sand out, maybe I'm just not thinking right today but...

OK, so I guess I was a bit overconfident in my pool savy after all the reading I did on here and I needed to be taken down a peg or two!?! in the last 4 days I had 2 pumps fail and the sand bags for my steps burst :cry: I'm heading out to the local pool store to replace pump #2 shortly and...

Hi... latest testing shows that my pH is a bit on the low side. so, after reading all around here I *know that I should add some borax...except when I put my info into the bleachcalc to see how much it tells me to "add 13.6oz of sodium carbonate (soda ash NOT borax)" ?!?! I thought you added...

so..a week into this and we still haven't gone swimming yet :cry: between the issues I had with the filter, cool days and now chemical readings I just want to cry yesterday I took some water to my local store and they spit out these readings: my pool (their rec. #) TC 0 (1-3) FC 0...

I'm getting frustrated -- have tried deleting cookies, clearing history, ect multiple times but still having problems with log in. if I log in through AOL browser I sign in on main page, get a redirect and see welcome amieelynne...then when I click on either forum (on the left) or index (on...

OK, so...the pool is up and running--not only that but it's full!! of course, this means I have more silly questions :oops: I turned the filter off tonight, and was shocked when my skimmer tranformed into 'ole faithful--spitting up water like I never knew possible, if the cap hadn't been...

first let me say hi..I was directed over to this site/forum by my pool installer to learn about BBB and how to maintain my new pool. talk about impressed already, I can only hope that their work is as good as their advice...I'll be finding out next week when they do the install I guess :wink...