Search results

Yes very crazy, hot and nasty in the heat, just nasty in the cool.

I'm in North Alabama and just finished my opening SLAM and experienced those same numbers. I too could only pull a sample in the Am and than the evening when I returned from work, I would add a little extra bleach in the AM and when I returned in the PM went right into getting it back to SLAM...

Clear View, Total Alkalinity $1.52 lb Active Ingredient - 100% Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate Arm & Hammer Baking Soda $0.63 lb Active Ingredient - 100% Sodium Bicarbonate For those keeping score Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO3) and Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate (NaHCO3) are the same crystalline chemical...

For what its worth I went through 13 Gal of 10% bleach in 5 days doing my SLAM and had a much lower CYA than you and a smaller pool. With your CYA and pool size I would not be surprise if you went through 20-25 gal of bleach cleaning up your pool.

SLAM is complete, I passed my OCLT last night. - - - Updated - - - Total 10% bleach required was 12.5 Gal

I would be crapping my pants if I was buying 500 Gal of Propane every 2 months here in AL to heat a pool. I have a 250 Gal tank that feeds a gas log fireplace I used as secondary heat to take the chill off in the winter and fill that tank once a year. Cost $450

Yes, I can clearly see the bottom of the pool and no cloudy water. I did put CYA in the sock and that has dissolved but didn't have any effect on my CYA test. I could run a water sample by the Jewelry store and let them tell me what my CYA number is. I'm also pretty sure I have calculated my...

Hi Svenpup Did you ever make it out to Huntsville for that exploratory trip? I came to Alabama from LA back in 1968 than left in 1976 (US Navy) and returned in 2010, have always called Alabama home and visited often as this was where my family lived. I think you will discover a big difference...

My CYA is still unreadable using the Taylor K-2600C as the lowest reading on the comparator tube is 30 and I can still see the black dot when the tube is full. For SLAM purposes I have been using a CYA number of 30 for a target FC. Should I add stabilizer now or just wait until my SLAM is done...

Lot of good advise being thrown your way, my .02 is don't replace anything and repair/service what you have and get the pool online. There is nothing really wrong with the equipment you have and turning the green monster into a clear pool is the easy part. I think you be surprised at how easy...

Had a concrete guy tell me one time if you don't like cracked concrete don't use concrete. Not sure I completely agree with that statement but every house I have lived in has some form of cracks in the concrete.

I hear you loud and clear Pabeader as I think this has been my problem. I starting to wonder if I need to close at all because we only get a few hard freezes a winter and those only last a few days. Now having having said that I have seen temps in the single digits for a week but that is rare...

Sunday 8AM FC 10.5 CC .5 added 28oz bleach Sunday 10AM FC 10 CC .5 added 37oz bleach Sunday 12PM FC 8.5 CC .5 added 65oz bleach Sunday 2PM FC 7.5 CC .5 added 84oz bleach It's now 3PM and raining. I would call the water clarity at about 80%

Just read all 20 pages of this amazing thread, very impressive. Looking forward to the finished product, that pool design rocks!

Yes, first picture was Friday and second picture was Saturday afternoon. We have a storm rolling in at 3PM and hang through the night.

Sunday 8AM FC 10.5 CC .5 PH 8.0 Working on reducing PH, did a acid demand test and came up with 4 drops, Taylor test kit chart calls for 4.62 Lbs of Sodium Bisulfate (dry acid) or 1.72 Qt of Muriatic Acid. I have a 5lb container of PH Down Sodium Bisulfate, should I just go with that to...

Sunday 6AM FC 4.5 CC .5 PH 8.0 TA 90 CH 190 CYA less than 30 CYA is still unreadable using the Taylor K-2600C as the lowest reading is 30 and I can still see the black dot when the tube is full. For SLAM purposes I will use a CYA of 30 and shock to 12. Will be checking FC/CC every 2 hrs today...

Here is a picture from yesterday afternoon, just checked it today and the water is now clear. I will post up a new set of readings in a few.

Before I found this website the jewelry store, I mean pool store would always tell not to worry about CYA numbers. Why, because they want to sell you pucks at $130 a tub. If you can, maintain this pool yourself, much cheaper in the long run.

Let the pump run Friday PM and jumped down to Wally World Sat AM for some 3 B's. Dumped in 4 Gal of bleach at 8AM along with some Borax and Baking Soda. 12PM had the following FC 7.5 CC 1.0 PH 8.0 TA 100 CH 190 CYA still somewhere between 0-29 Rechecked FC at 3 PM and was at 1.0, low CYA is...

Guess I'm not doing the closing and opening this thing right because for the last two years I have opened the pool to only find a green monster. Opened Friday and the water temp was 68 FC 0 CC 0 PH 7.0 TA 70 CH 190 CYA somewhere between 0-29

This pool was already here when we bought the house. I dont think I would ever pay to have vinyl installed.

Can someone educate me on why there are no Gunite pools in the south. I live in Alabama and everything here is Vinyl, why is that??? I lived in JAX FL and had Gunite.

I'm wondering if I should even close it, let it run all year??????

Until I got wise on this site I would take a bottle of water to the Jewelry Store, I mean Pool Store and could never get out of there without dropping $100 to $150 in chemicals.

Water temp is 68, when I closed it I brought it up to shock level and covered it.

Open the pool today and yep another year of green. Time to SLAM. This is getting old.