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Pool has been rock solid all summer with dialed in chemistry. Now that the water is cold my CSI keeps pushing down to around -.60. In summer I kept PH between 7.5 and 7.8. Let rise to 7.8 knock down to 7.5 repeat. Have my TA at 70 which keeps my PH rise reasonable. But with the cold water...

Thanks to this site my pool maintenance has been so easy. Pool has been in my hands a couple of months now and I have had nothing but crystal clear water that is a joy to look at and swim in. I've been working a bit on lowering TA and now have it at 60 which really seems to have helped with...

After my new build and having the builder maintain the pool for the first month I have now had 'control' for the past couple of weeks. Currently running my pump 24/7 at about 1700 rpm which is pulling about 300 watts (Builder highly recommended running pump 24/7 at a low speed). Run the Polaris...

Question about doing the test for free chlorine with my TFT100 kit. Right now my builder is taking care of my pool for the first month but I am still testing daily. Chlorine has been a high (5-12). I know how to do the chlorine test using a 10 mL sample with each drop representing .5 ppm of...

In anticipation of actually being able to fill my new pool I tested (with my TF 100) my tap water today to see where I will be starting from. Here are the results. Chlorine .05-1 PH 8.2+ (quite a bit brighter pink than the scale) Calcium Hardness 0 (was blue before adding third reagent) Tatal...

Anyone have a pool done in Diamondbrite Steel Blue? It is in the Watercolors line and is a blend of 5 Tahoe Blue to 1 Onyx. I made mention of this in my build thread but thought the question might not get seen buried in with the specs and photos. Looking to see any photos you might have of this...

We are supposed to dig on January 12 so I figured I would start a build thread to document everything here. I posted a thread back at the end of the summer with a general design and asked for a little bit of input. Made a few small changes based on some input from here which is much...

Been interviewing lots of builders over the past month or so. Have received bids from 6. Surprisingly the bottom line numbers are all within about 10% of each other. I think I have finally found the builder I am most comfortable with. His bid is about mid pack but from my research his...

Been lurking here for a while and have been reading reading reading in order to broaden my knowledge. I've read Pool School in its entirity multiple times and search and browse threads. Have decided to put in a gunnite pool and after looking through thousands of photos and being in multiple...