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Hello everyone! We bought a new home about three years ago and it seems we have had nothing but issues with the liner pool in our new home. First, we started losing a ton of water and had American Leak Detection come out and they found that the pool light gasket was leaking. So, in December...

Well here we are again :( Everything was going wonderful, until a bag got stuck in our skimmer basket while we were sleeping last night which caused the pool to ice over. We were able to get the water moving again and we were checking on the pool throughout the day and all seemed decent...

Hello everyone! We did a bucket test last night and we have a pool leak. Our liner is really old and wrinkled, so I’m hoping that’s what the issue is. However, I know the next step is to plug all of the inlets and returns. We have two return lines, one cleaner line, one skimmer, and two main...

Hello everyone! We recently bought a home in May 2021 with a vinyl pool. Our previous home had a vinyl pool as well, so we are not new to pools :) Anyway, I wasn’t sure exactly where to post this, so I’m sorry if it isn’t in the right place, but we had someone come look at our pool because the...

Hello everyone, I have already read through a lot of the threads regarding the weather we are having now in North Texas. We have an underground liner pool and ice has already formed on top of the pool. We currently have electricity and the pump is running. However, the high temperatures are...

I need advice:) The pool company came out yesterday to drain our pool. Monday, they are going to come back out and prep the pool and remove our old liner. On Tuesday, the new liner will be dropped and fit to our pool and then our pool will be filled. My husband and I are worried because we had...

We are currently in the process of having our liner replaced. My husband and I have been talking about a new addition to help with pool care. I have been advocating for a new cleaner while he has been pushing for a SWG system; we're trying to decide what would be the most cost effective route to...

Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have posted on this website. The city I live in, Wichita Falls, Texas is in a severe drought. They say we have enough water to last for approximately 2 and half years. You may have seen several stories about us recently on the news; we are...

Hello everyone! My husband and I just finished removing metal stains from our pool using ascorbic acid and following the advice from this forum. We first lowered the chlorine to 0 (there might have been 2 ppm at most in the pool), added polyquat 60 to prevent algae, set the filter to circulate...

Hello everyone! My husband and I had this problem last season. We are tasting salt in the pool water. I finally bought some salt test strips at Wal-Mart and tested the salt level, which is 2060. Is this normal? We use liquid bleach to sanitize the pool. We used to buy the Wal-Mart brand...

Hello everyone! :wave: I am back once again! My cloudy water issue is gone, and the pool is crystal clear! Thanks to everyone here who helped me get through that 3 week ordeal! :) Now, I have another issue I must address. We have air bubbles blowing out of both return lines. There is air...

My husband and I opened our pool about 3 weeks ago. We never covered it, and the pool was swamp green. Long story short, the pH got WAY to high (hot pink). There is a rough sand paper substance (I assume calcium scaling) on the sides of our vinyl pool (and probably the bottom too, not...

Opened pool to a green swamp! Ran my first set of tests on March 14th and got these numbers: FC-0 CC-0 TC-0 ph - SUPER hot pink (off the charts) Alk - 80 Added what I had left of my muriatic acid from last summer (about 1/2 a jug)--retested, and ph was STILL super HOT pink. Decided to shock...

There are two problems that my husband and I have noticed in our pool this summer: 1. Yellow stains have appeared on our white stairs. I bought some Vitamin C tablets at Walmart and they took the yellow stain off. I read pool school and understand that I need to buy about 2 pounds of...

Hello everyone! I searched and didn't find any answers to my question. I currently have a sock with CYA in it tied to the deep end return. Problem is, I need to add some chlorine before heading out. Is it safe to pour the bleach on top of the CYA? Thanks! Emily

Hello everyone! My pool is super green, and I wanted advice on how to open my pool properly. I own the trouble free test kit, have read pool school numerous time, and have visited here before. I know what to do, I just don't know what order to do things in. **My most important question...

Hello! I am letting some CYA dissolve in a sock in front of the deep end return. I am also shocking my pool (I think I have some algae--due to low CYA and the sun eating up my chlorine) Can I add liquid bleach over the sock with the CYA in it? If not, where else can I pour the bleach in...

Hello everyone! Last year about this time I was struggling with an extremly high CYA level and mustard algae. Things are a bit opposite this year! Here are my test results that I did June 2nd: CYA - 10-20 pH - 7.5 FC - 2.0 ( I kept it this low since my CYA was low...probably not a good idea I...

Hello everyone! I hope some of you remember me!! I had a horrible algae issue earlier this summer--but thanks to this forum--I haven't had any problems since with the water chemistry! I live in North Texas--it does get below freezing here--but not quite as bad as in other places. So, my...

I decided to start a new thread to keep my algae and filter problems separate--if you want to combine this with my other thread--I understand! :) My fiance and I noticed something today that is definitely abnormal. We turned the pump off to clean out the pump basket--turned the pump back...

Hello everyone! My name is Emily. I bought a home back in January (of this year) and it happened to have a pool! :-D I was (and still mostly am) clueless to how pools work, but my fiance and I have a friend who worked at a local pool store. He went up to Outback Pool and Spas (where he...