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I'm not that new anymore, but after lots of rain diluting chlorine (I think), my pool was fine one day, but looked cloudy the next morning. FC/CC tested OK but I think I may have tested it on the high side after SWG did it's job . Regardless, I went out looking for pool bleach and a few hours...

I hope everyone who had to deal with this is safe. Best thoughts for quickly getting back to some kind of normal. 5 years, er I mean days ago when the storm started my salt level was 3300-3400 (honestly don't remember exactly). After 30" of rain in 7600 Gal pool, Accucheck strip says salt is...

First off, we need to buy new stabilizer because we bought Clorox and it doesn't do a thing. Read about Protech on another thread but not sure which pool stores sell it. We only have Leslie's nearby, but will travel. Had CYA at a nice level just under 80, then here comes the rain. We've had...

Husband was supposed to add salt to the pool before going out of town and forgot. I came home a day later to find a cloudy pool with greenish tint. Salt was below 2700 so SWG had stopped generating. 2 days in, OCLT this morning showed a loss of 1.5 FC and CC is at .5ppm Still a little cloudy...

SWG panel showed "check salt" light green, Check cell blinking red. Now normal. Went out this morning to do maintenance and panel is reading normal again. We had a slight cold snap overnight night before. Could it be that water got too cold and when it warmed up a bit, I just happened to check...

Last pool was not SWG and it was taken out by tornado in October so I don't know what average water temp is in the winters here. Some years we don't have a hard freeze, some years we do, but it never stays too cold long enough to justify closing the pool. First cold front came through and...

So I have my pool almost where I want it, but still trying to find the sweet spot for generating FC. Right now I'm at: FC 7 CC 0 Ph 7.6 TA 90 CYA 75 CH 180 (tho with vinyl, I haven't checked it lately) If this were still chlorine alone, I'd know what to do, but I'm too new to SWG and don't...

So I just opened new SWG pool, which I'm new at. Before it was all about the bleach. A couple days ago, I only had a CYA of 50 so I added more stabilizer. Otherwise I haven't done anything to effect Ph/TA (at least I didn't think so) Yesterday, my numbers where: FC: 9 CC: .5 Ph: 7.6 TA...

After I got used to old Intex pool, it was taken out by tornado. I again am a newbie (will clean up sig file soon) Pool is almost full, and PB says put 1 bottle (32oz) All Clear stain and scale and run pump for 24 hrs. The bottle says 15oz per 10k gallons. My pool is barely 7700 gal. Should...

Good afternoon, my saviors! Back at pool school learning more about SWG, but right now PB/store says they are looking for a Hayward pump that's 1.5 HP that's 2 speed. She says she's having a hard time finding one because they are usually used for inground pools and can't find a distributor who...

So we weren't sure if we were going to get a new pool until a tornado took out the old intex and we are ready to get a new one. Going with a much sturdier pool that's almost twice as big. (16x32) 48" deep The salt water version is 1k more than the chlorine. I don't want to be cheap on price...

Since my pool is so small and I have swimmers almost every day, the splash out, evaporation and need to add water has lowered my CYA from 60 to low-mid 40's (which I treat as 50 to be safe) a lot sooner than I expected. As a result I'm losing between 6-7ppm FC in 24 hours. I test quite often...

Since I have an intex pool, the liner at the top has a small opening above the top seem. The other day, the kids noticed there were yellow jackets in there. The boys splashed them away and said some of them were dead. I don't allow food or drink near my pool and kids have have clean hands and...

My pool is still sparkling thanks to TFP, but I don't want to cause a problem so here goes: Normally test and add chlorine in the evenings (after the sun stops shining on the pool) I keep my CYA a bit on the high side (between 50-60...closer to 60), so I'm not comfy if FC dips below 5ppm...

Not sure, if this is the best place to post this, but I thought someone might find it cute and inspiring. I've read threads where people are asking "how often you 'really' test?" as if they looking for a good excuse to skip a day here and there. First year with a pool, and my 6 yr old...

Out of CYA reagent. It's on order, but it's late. I know a little rain doesn't make a difference with most things, but we were in that rain event where we drained about a foot of water out of our pool in 3 inch increments and it was replaced by rain water each time. Do you think this will...

So I was losing 5-6ppm FC everyday at a CYA of 30, (good ole TX sun) so I bumped up to 50 and shot for 10ppm FC at night just in case I still lost 6. This morning at (7am) , before the sun hit, the FC held at 10ppm and my occasional pesky .5 CC or less is completely gone. Yay! At last test...

I've been reading other posts in the forum about how much FC is too high to swim in. Am I right in assuming that it's safe to swim as long as my FC is less than shock value? My CYA is reading between 30-40 but it's a bit closer to 30 so if my FC were 10 (CC 0) and shock level is 12, it's safe...

So we drained the pool about 3 inches because it was supposed to rain that much and I thought I could stand to lose another 3 or 4ppm, as per CYA/FC chart. So of course it hasn't rained yet. But that's great for the people who were flooding so I'm not complaining! So I'm looking for 6%...

In Texas with the deluge of rain and inaccurate forecasts, we've been fighting with keeping the pool at least close to balanced so as not to wind up in deeper trouble once this weather pattern has ended. So far so good. The pool is still clear. Friends of hubs who have had above ground pools...

So glad to have found this site. I'm brand new to pool care and have learned a lot from this site already. I was originally complaining about all the rain we've been getting, and it's not going to stop soon. But I'm looking at the bright side. All this rain is really forced me to understand MY...

Have been reading forum for days, but since I'm so new at this I'm not sure what applies to my specific pool. (intex vinyl 16' x 48" approx. 6000 gal) Took forever to get my TA in check, and my FC had gotten to 2 (using 3" tabs with stabilizer) until it rained. Ugh! Shocked last night with...