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Good to know. We immediately text our pool installer and he said "DUDE. YOU JUST MADE MUSTARD GAS! GET AWAY!" So our nerves are shot. Thanks for the advice. He wouldn't give us any (liability blah blah blah) and so we were stuck. We have plenty of baking soda so we will dump it everywhere before...

So DH just accidentally poured liquid chlorine into the muriatic acid dispenser. He saw the cloud and ran. He realized what he did and put a ventilator and dropped a hose in the dispenser then put the lid on. Now we have no idea what to do. There is about 1 gallon of muriatic acid, 1/4 gallon...

We have been pool owners for 2 years now and have always shut down our pool for the winter. However, we recently did a major landscape renovation and don't want to look out our kitchen window and see a dirty, leaf filled pool or a pool cover. Therefore, this year we are going to run it through...

We noticed a bit of cloudiness in the water as well as a slight green cloud when we brushed so we decided to SLAM. We switched over to a SWCG this summer and this is our first time doing a SLAM with it. I turned off the SWCG and SLAMed with 10% liquid chlorine. Did the overnight test and the...

Same as gq_wolf. Got the email, downloaded the app, tried to log in and got an error. I logged in here just to make sure I didn't forget the password and, sure enough, it works fine.

Sorry about that... 1 horsepower Amps 14..6/7.3 Is that what you need?

It is a Purtex Triton Tagelus TA-60/60D Design flow rate - 60 Maximum psi - 50 It has a Polaris booster, saltwater chlorine generator, and muratic acid feeder attached if that helps.

My husband spent the day yesterday replacing the sand in our sand filter. Once completed, we backwashed and rinsed and then let it rip. However, we were surprised to see the pressure gauge running at 24-25 psi. It's important to note that we did have to also replace the pressure gauge as the...

I currently use the Tatylor K – 1000 test, which came in my TF-100 kit, to test my pH. Is there a more exact test available where I can count drops??? I find it very difficult to match the colors when the shades of pink aren't even close to the test shades. Thanks!

Stains are definitely a brownish rust color. No green to them at all. I am on city water that has a very high pH. We do not cover our pool in the winter, and have a lot of trees, and a pool guy told me that leaving the leaves in the pool can cause high levels of iron. That doesn't make any...

I am curious if Vitamin C removes copper stains or if it only removes iron stains? This spring we successfully removed all stains from our pool using Vitamin C. It was gleaming white. Unfortunately, we didn't completely understand how things worked regarding them still being in the water...

Hello all! I'm curious how you handle maintaining your pool while on vacation for a week? How do you ensure chlorine levels stay up and you don't have an algae outbreak or something else? If I filled the "floating duck" with chlorine tabs, how much would I see my CYA increase? We are at 40 for...

Someday I'll figure out all the correct lingo! Yes… We have a Gunite pool with a plaster finish. Looking to get people opinions and experiences on the different types of finishes they have gone with and what they like, dislike, wish they had gone with, regret going with, etc.

We found cracks in gunite which were obviously patched in the past by the previous owners. We knew we were on borrowed time with our pool as it is 30 years old and has never been refinished! Ideally, we would like to patch to get us through the rest of the summer and then look at resurfacing...

No surprise. We have a leak. We are only 15 hours into the test and we can already see a noticeable difference between the water line in the bucket and the pool. My instinct is to start calling pool companies to come out and access. Anybody have any advice on what to look for or ask?

ah SNAP. I think I have a problem. I lose 1" or more every day. I'll try the bucket test...sigh..... Thanks all. Kristina

I am starting to get nervous about the amount of water we are adding to the pool. We add pretty much every day but at least every other day. We do live in the Atlanta area and have been experiencing 85-95 degree weather so it could be evaporation but it still seems like a lot. Just curious...

Thanks guys! That's what we will start doing! On a separate note, you really do need to wait a full week after adding CYA to test. I read someone said they were able to test after a day or two. Our result DEFINITELY looks different a week after adding verses two days after adding!

We got the R-7065 test in the mail today. I was excited to get it because I wanted to ensure we have been doing the CYA test correctly. Now that we have done it we are confused. My husband and I both did the test separately. In fact, I did not tell him it was water set to 50. He thought he...

Thanks pooldv. Am I correct that I need to go back to SLAM? Any ideas as to why one night it held and the next night it 1.5?

Almost positive the only place you can get it is tftestkits.net. They ship fast and respond quickly to questions. I do suggest you go ahead and buy the magnetic speed stirrer when you purchase your kit. It will get you to over $100 which provides free shipping and you are going to want it. I...

Maybe??? We were good about brushing it but anything is a possibility? Full test results: FC: 7.5 CC: 0 PH: 7.7 CH: 200 AK: 90 CYA: Waiting for sun to be up but pretty certain it is 40...it was Thursday. I have added a little dry acid to get my pH down to 7.5. Also, I will be getting the...

UGH!!!!!!!!!! I am so frustrated!!!!!! Why would we pass the Overnight Chlorine Loss Saturday night but not Sunday night??? Went to bed and chlorine was a 9. This morning it is at 7.5. When we were doing SLAM I was diligent about adding chlorine every 3 hours. It was always between 14...

Ok...I thought we were done with SLAM but now I am concerned. Passed the overnight test last night. Today we dropped 5 ppm from 14 to 9. That's seems like a lot for one day? We did add water to the pool and had three children playing in it for three hours. However, that doesnt seem to justify a...

Ok....thanks guys! Here I go!

I did a full test today and came up with the following: FC: 3.5 CC: .5 pH: 7.8 CH: 225 AK: 100 CYA: 40? I am not sure how long it takes CYA levels to settle but we added CYA Sunday night-Tuesday morning via a sock. When I cleaned my robotic cleaner's cartridges today they were, again...

I check every night. FC usually around a 2-3 and I add chlorine to get to 5. CC is always 0. I think that is normal but tell me if i am wrong. KG

Just went to clean the cartridges in my new Dolphin Triton Plus (which I do NOT recommend) and noticed they were green. They are usually brown when they need cleaning from the dirt and debris but this time they were blatantly green. And as I rinsed them the water ran off green. My husband...

I am working on getting my CYA up from 20 to 40. I have following the advice of the boards and put it in an old sock and submerged it in my skimmer. It's been 24 hours. Three questions. 1. How long should it take until the sock is empty? I was shocked to find it is still full after 24 hours. 2...