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I have had an above ground pool for the past 7 years. It is a vinyl round 26 round X4 foot pool. You have been a big help throughout. I have mostly been on autopilot after our first year. However I have been battling high TA for a few years and can't seem to lower it. We just filled the pool...

Hi all! I have had my above ground pool for 5 years now and am so glad I found your sight early on. I have not had a reason to SLAM my pool because your info. has been so helpful. We opened our pool this year to brown yuck! I threw in some old Shock crystals I bought early on, but knew I...

Hi all! We have had our above ground pool for about 4 years. This weekend we opened up our pool to see that the skimmer basket is cracked near the top and the bottom of the basket. Any suggestions how we can fix it without putting in a new one? Thanks!

The guy at the pool store said Algae Destroyer by (Nature's Way) was what we needed when we asked for polyquat algaecide. (I looked at "Pool School" thread Winterizing above ground pools.) Is this what I should use. It has poly (oxyethylene (dimethyliminio) ethylene(dimethyliminio) ethylene...

This is my second year of owning our pool and the TFP method has been great. I am just wondering if I have been adding too much chlorine. I was reading an old thread on this topic and heard anywhere from every day to once a week. I have been adding about 1/2 a gallon of 8.25% bleach every...

I am freaking out!! I came home from work and found THREE dead birds in my skimmer and 1 floating in the pool. Not more than an hour later there was another dead one floating in the pool. Does anyone have any advice how to keep the birds out of the pool AND do I need to worry about any diseases...

Thanks in advance for all of your advice! I opened my pool this weekend to water that was just beginning to cloud up and I dumped some of the pool cover water in :( oh well, stuff happens! Anyway, we filled it back up to the mid skimmer level and turned on the pump. After testing the water I...

Hey everyone! Well the pool season is winding down for me; we're back to school and work and the weather is cooling down. It was a very trouble free pool season thanks to my friends here at TFP. So now I have a new question for all of you. What are some of your suggestions for shutting down a...

Hi everyone - I just want to say I love this sight. I have been on it for a week now and people are great. I have been asking a lot of questions and responding right away. It has really helped my anxiety about all of this. I think I was posting on the wrong part of this sight. Since I am a...

Hello all - I am New and Confused! I am not even sure I am doing this posting thing right, so forgive me if I am in the wrong place. We just installed a Sentinelle 24 foot 52 inch above ground pool. We have a cartridge filter (and disconnected the Zodiak Vision system b/c of what I read here)...