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Thank you. We do have gas going to a grill but I thought it T'd earlier in the line instead of going out and back. That would be strange.

Thank you for the explanations. Do you know why there are two verticle lines coming out of the ground on the gas line?

Our heater needs to be replaced this year and I sent pictures to our pool company and they asked why there are two conduits going into the heater. I'm guess he means these two lines (are there two gas lines) if so why would this be? Or is it something else, these are the pictures that I sent...

We opened our pool about a month ago and all seemed well. We had the salt water generator cleaned this year and the pool is about 4 years old. I noticed that the flow into the pool was not as strong as it typically was and that there was a small air pocket in the pump basket. I back washed...

Got the new kit and all is well. I'm surprised that it went off after a year but they do say to get a new kit every year. Now I'll know. Thanks for all of the advise!

Thank you for all of these helpful suggestions. I just tested a bottle of poland springs water and the TA is 160. Is this high for bottled water? I did have my well water tested about 2 years ago and the TA at that time was 160. typically my pool reads around 100. Thanks for all of your help!

I just checked my well water and I added 30 drops with no color change (except the quick change each drop makes immediately when added to solution) I'm guess that it is the reagents. I'll order refills for my test kit ;). Is there any harm from high TA levels? Also, could temperature play a...

yes, when I added drops after about 10 the drops turned pink then quickly green.

I did not have to add any more water as the water level was actually very high at opening. I asked the company to not add anything except liquid chlorine so I hope that they respected that. I added 2 drops of R-0007, 5 drops of R-0008 and use a speed stir. I then added 40 drops and stopped...

I just had my pool opened on Friday and tested the the water today (they added liquid chlorine during the opening and I waited for the fc level to normalize). I use the TF-100 test kit but it is last years kit. Here are my numbers: FC 8 CC 0 ph 7.5 CH 100 TA over 400 (never saw a complete...

So it has been about a month and everything was going great, I've kept my cl between 2 and 6 for the most part. I have a bit of a problem with the pH constantly drifting up so I average around 8. my CYA is finally at 80 and I now have to balance the CH which is at 100 and the TA which is at...

thanks for the great directions. That was a very helpful suggestion. sorry, my test kit is the Tf-100. I only had a cc reading on my first day of testing which was the day after delivery, it was 1.5 but I didn't have any fc at that point and it was the only time I saw a positive of the cc...

Thank you for all of this helpful information, it is hard to put it all together in the beginning. Thanks kim, I have a few more things to balance out. is there anywhere that talks about how soon you can use the pool after adding each chemical? I have to increase my cya level still and...

Thank you so much for all of your help. I woke up with a nice looking pool this morning. I'm not sure if it is the sun shining on it now but some of the blue is back and it looks like it did before I started adding the chemicals. The trucked in water was our local city drinking water so it...

I had most of it trucked in but I topped it off with well water. I noticed last night when I was doing my last reading that there was a brownish orange band of stuff that I was able to brush off at the water line. I'm not sure if that helps. When I took a sample to the pool store they said...

Thanks for all of the help. I'm just curious about if I even needed to do a slam with my cc being 0 this morning. I'm holding fc at 12 and will check in the morning, that will tell me if there is anything left in the pool and I'll know. Im a bit concerned about this color change that...

thanks so much, I am all on my own which in some ways may be better....just jumping right in ��. thanks for the links Kim. I have read through those and am finally starting to understand but I don't have the experience. I didn't add the stuff from the pool store. I added...

Ok. That is good. I also forgot to add that I took another reading to practice my kit and get a baseline before I shocked. my numbers this morning showed no cc?? Why would that be gone with no chemicals? PH 7.5 fc 0.0 cc 0.0 ch 50 ta 80 cya 0 i shocked anyway because I thought it would be...

I hope I didn't just screw up. I just put 5lbs of stabilizer in a sock in the skimmer. Since it would take a while for it to show up in the tests I figured I would go ahead and add the bleach figuring it the got used up due to lack of stabilizer I could just add more tomorrow. So I added 5...

I just got stabilizer but it is a granule. Do I have to put that in a sock in the skimmer or can I disperse it in the deep end? How long does that take to dissolve so that I can get an accurate measure before I start adding bleach? Thanks

I'll get some cya this morning. I'm guessing I should get the liquid so I don't have to wait a week before it is at 30. How long do I have to wait with the liquid stabilizer before I can get an accurate reading and add my bleach? thanks for the help! I'll fix my signature too.

I've been reading up on think stuff since I decided to get a pool but thought that I'd be starting out with clean water. I'm not sure what to do now. We had 33,000 gal of water trucked in last friday (6/17) and topped it off with our well to about 35,000. Our pump was not functional until...

Re: New pool in upstate NY...help with startup Just wanted to modify my title

It has been a long, and unpleasant process. But we finally have a pool with water. We had water trucked in last friday (6/17) and topped it off with our well (total of about 35,000 gal). However our pump has not been functional (it should be up and running tonight). We have been swimming in...

Kris, Thanks for the advice. That is what I am trying to avoid. I don't mind making things curved and the steps and walls have been resolved. We are just trying to determine if this is a place where we can make adjustments. Basically they would do a paver coping and where the wall is not in...

this is the floor of the shallow area. As for temperature, it was about 65-70 when they poured this. we have not discussed this with the pb yet because there were other issues that came up first.