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Where I live in the Pacific northwest, we get about 5 swimming months per year. For the winter though, it rarely goes much below freezing, so we don't close our pool, we just leave it open and stop heating it. Thus far all I've been doing is boosting up the chlorine before the temperatures...

I've just drained and refilled my hot tub for the first time. Our tap water has calcium hardness of only about 10ppm. I measured it with the taylor kit, and as it should, the solution turned from red to blue on the second drop. So, I added some 'calcium hardness plus', intending to bring the...

Just got a new spa a couple weeks ago, and Spa Sentry came in the starter pack. We have very soft water here already (test strip showed CH of tap water as indistinguishable from 0), and the spa store guy suggested using this instead of bringing the CH up. Apparently it's supposed to protect...

Just got a new spa a few days ago. I've done a bunch of reading and think I have a good handle on how everything interacts, as well as what's actually in all the magic products we got in the startup package. (Rather annoying that the vendors try to enforce lock-in by leaving ingredients off...

Hello, I'm a new pool owner, as of about May 2015. I'm fairly confident we have a suction side leak, but I don't really have a basis for how much air getting into the system is "OK" (if any), and would love some guidance on what to try from here. I've made a couple videos to demonstrate...