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After noticing our pool level dropped a few inches overnight, I discovered a pretty significant leak at the base of the valve at the water return pipe. There's enough "meat" left above the concrete pad to put a new valve or coupling on to the 2" pipe, but I'm wondering what the best way is to...

Perfect, thanks for the help. I will bump the FC way up then. For whatever reason I never put the CYA level-FC level together as far as "real" chlorine effect on liner and swimmers. I'm also going to work on vacuuming to waste to lower CYA so I don't need to use so much bleach.

Thanks for the helpful replies. Well, 2 days after posting, I was dismayed to see the pool starting to turn green. My FC was at 8 ppm, which I suppose with my high CYA wasn't quite enough. Perhaps I never completely got rid of the algae in the first place and was just keeping it at bay. When...

Hello, I've been having a problem with cloudy water ever since I cleaned up an algae problem over a month ago. The algae appears to be gone, the water is blue, but I can't seem to get it clear. I have the TF-100 kit and my levels are: pH: 7.6, FC 10, CC 0, TA 150, CH 90, CYA 90. The only...

Perfect, speedy information, thanks! That would put my TA at about 40. I'll check out the pool calculator and buy some baking soda. I'm sure I'll have many more questions as I try to figure all this out, so thanks in advance!

Hi everyone: New pool owner here and I'm trying to get a handle on my water chemistry. Last night I measured my TA with the TF-100 kit and I'm wondering about the instructions that say to add drops of the R0009 until it turns red. Does "red" really mean red? My solution turns to pink after 3...