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Always on the look out for cost containment, I decided to try a vendor that was mentioned by chem geek some months ago, being especially attracted to what seemed like a loss-leader price for the Taylor K-2006 test kit. The company’s prices for 2 ounce reagents are lower than most other...

Pool owners in Baja California who are at the end of their rope (or just at the end of the peninsula: California Sur) are fortunate to have "our man" in Los Cabos to help them fix their problem pools. Here's a salute for the hard work you've done getting some very troubled pools back in...

If we could expand this just slightly... There was some disagreement expressed in a recent thread as to whether an over-sized salt cell was a wise investment for a pool owner. Most of those posting seemed to have adopted the view that a cell's useful life is correlated to amps applied and the...

Split from spa-plaster-flaking-t18261.html Butterfly Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/training/vi ... s/swim.pdf Is there a pool website in business anywhere on the net that doesn't gently or forcefully admonish pool owners to guard against the evils of excessive TDS? Beware its intents...

Haven't seen discussed on this site anyone's donations to organizations helping Haiti but know that many of you have already given to help the people there. In the past, I gave one-time donations to various groups but decided after the earthquake that I would give on a regular basis the same...

I've noticed that some FAS-DPD chlorine test kits (sold by Taylor and others) utilize Potassium iodide crystals instead of a reagent solution to effect a color change indicating Combined Chlorine (CC) products in a sample. What is the reason for this? Do the crystals provide some additional...

Are the calcuations that were documented in 2007 for CSI still valid? See viewtopic.php?p=14664#p14664 The result differs from my LSI calculation (the CSI tends to be .05 - .25 lower than mine.) If the CSI calculation is correct, additions of MA to lower pH have consistently pushed the...

In a recent post I speculated on what impact salt and other TDS components might have on the freezing point of pool water. Does anyone here have a formula or explanation as to how much a given quantity of salt reduces the freezing point?

Returned tonight from Kauai, HI, where the overnight temperatures hovered in the 68-72° range and daytimes stayed at or below 84°F. Strange thing was... the pool, built into the rocks some twenty feet over the sea (the waves broke over the deck's hand rail,) was too cold to swim in! Yup. I...

Another exaggeration, to be sure... but why does the most moneyed team in Baseball always have to roll over other good teams year after year to take more than their fair share of penants and world championships. When I lived in New Jersey, I was a Mets fan... at that time a new team that ended...

Happy birthday, old man! :-D oops... I mean, Bruce. Have a swell time at Yosemite this week.

In recent months I've had ever-increasing levels of TDS and Salt. That is, according to the Aqua Chek Salt strips and TDS strips I've been using. My doubts prompted me to repurchase both in August, thinking that the strips may have been old (although I'm fairly scrupulous in my care of them.)...

It's been 2 years since my pool was completed, but seeing the wonderful pics of others' pools has reminded me that I too have a story to tell... and pictures to upload. Hope you enjoy them. polyvue[attachment=0:b0lixw3a]00poly2007JUN30.jpg[/attachment:b0lixw3a]

A new user has a problem with a Pentair Challenger spa pump, but I don't know how to help them. See this post in the Swimming Pool Care » Spas and Hot Tubs forum.

Well, I've gone crazy trying to find the chat room (or toolbar link to initiate a chat session.) Does anyone else use chat? (I'm pretty sure this feature exists since I've found a number of posts referencing a chat room and toolbar. See...

Richard (and any others who may wish to contribute to this thread), I would like your opinion of the assertions made by Matthew Griffith in an article I read some months back. When calculating saturation index, I pretty much follow what's printed in the Taylor Testing and Treatment Guide, but...

Would this also apply to Leslie's powdered Tri-Chlor Genesis Shock? The specs are 10 oz bag Trichchloro-s-triazinetrione 67% aka Trichloro Isocyanuric Acid Available chlorine 60.3% I read somewhere that this product has a "neglible" affect on CYA. Not sure what that means, however. ...

I thought I would share with this forum my first notable failure (in regard to treatment of swimming pool water, that is!) Late last week, a routine chlorine test detected a low level of chloramines (0.2 ppm); this is a rare occurrence in my pool and I've always been able to dispense with such...

I enjoyed reading several of the articles that are stored in the 'Newsletters Archive' , so signed up to begin receiving the newsletter via e-mail. It seems, though, that the archive has not been updated since June 2008; newsletters dated from July '08 to date are absent. Could someone with a...

Two years ago I realized a lifetime dream and installed my first pool. After six months of internet research, planning and interviewing contractors I learned much about pool construction. Of course, one never learns enough. But I'm glad I didn't realize at the time how much I would have to...

Hello. I'm new to TFP forum and have a question. I've been told that a pool pump should operate at least 6 - 8 hours every day. In order to save energy (and money) I schedule my pump to run 2 1/2 to 3 hrs a day. Less in the winter. The cleaner (w/booster pump) is turned on for a portion of this...