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I trusted my dolphin on our newly refinished pebble finish pool. After a mistake of letting chlorine drop to zero, I just recovered from a nasty algae bloom. With high chlorine levels and Ph and cya not measurable during the Slam Study,the S200, was not in the water. Now back to normal levels I...

My pool builder is recommending 200 for CH but Pool Math indicates 250-300 or more. What should CH range be to not damage the stone or grout and tile? Reread the info about CSI and attempting to follow all details. Maintaining with TFP liquid chlorine (Kem-Tek from Lowes) We are now...

How to close or reduce maintenance over the winter months? New to the house, pool and area, I have learned a lot from the TFP since May. Had a great summer enjoying the pool and becoming the pool guy. After slowly coming to understand the cyclical process, I just completed a slam and the...

WE enjoyed the pool until a week ago but now the temperature is down to 72*, close to our daily outside temp. {Yes, I know. All of you in cold, rainy and already freezing areas are jealous.} Covered with a floated bubble wrap, it is still losing water and Cl slowly and gaining wind blown debris...

I tried rubbing a trichlor puck on several stains on the bottom of our inground fiberglass, painted pool. Although one stain appeared to show a clear line through the rubbed area, another appeared yellow after I left the puck on it for about an hour. Have not gotten any citric acid yet. Hard to...

On a suggestion, I tried using the lower speed of my 2 speed pump. It still has some suction through the hose and vacuum head to pick up leaves although not as well as on high. The filter pressure gauge shows nearly zero pressure. The pump trap does not stay filled with water on the low speed...

After a few weeks learning the ropes I think I understand the need to keep a high FC to get rid of algae. I was pleased with an otherwise sparkling pool (new home owner, old pool) and very low chlorine making it quite comfortable. But I noticed algae growing as the chlorine was getting used up...