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hopefully, after my third venture into this arena, i use the right terminology: problem: too much debris is falling to the bottom of my pool signs i'm ignoring the problem: i've tried running several skiming schedules (30 minutes at before normal schedule, 30 minutes after normal...

maybe you'd be a good candidate for borates, as they tend to further stabilize the pH.

i just wanted to say that i've been following the tfp method for the last year and it has been flawless. these taylor kits are amazingly precise and coupled with the knowledge base and community here i'm enjoying a crystal clear, problem free, nearly effortless pool ownership. just wanted to...

intesting image. the guy that did the work on mine, the paver's above ground and the concrete base is ground level. so thats where my confusion is about how to transition between the two.

thanks for the replies. good to know that a 6" overlap is traditional. i considered covering the concrete with some kind of decorative stone/gravel. never considered something like proflex, but it makes sense! just though it was odd because i never recall seeing other people's pools with things...

i put a small patio around my pool. to build it i put down about 4" of RCA, tamped it down with a machine, then a layer of wet concrete to create a flat base, then laid the pavers. unfortunately, the area i projected i'd make the patio is slightly larger than the finished area. so most of the...

thanks guys. i did refill not long after i posted. i stopped about 12 inches from filter because we were getting freezing whether and didn't want plumbing problems in the house. this weekend i finally got the last 6 inches done. i removed the pump. nearly had the cover cave in. threw the pump...

down to first stair (12" from bottom of low end). yikes.

hey guys, so about 2 months ago i started to think my water level had been decreasing. it was minor enough that i chalked it up to evaporation, impossible as that sounded. but somewhere within the last month, the water level definitely got lower. and now i think the pool cover pump i had must...

hey guys. so i presume i'm using the wrong nomenclature. what i have is this: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet so i think that means that i don't have a float valve and therefore cannot prevent air from entering the system. suggestions?

okay, yeah, i meant float valves. i can remove them, that's fine, but when i want to manually vacuum then i just put a plate down? obviously, the closer of the skimmers will have better suction than the further one, without the float valves to adjust for that, right? i'm guessing the difference...

so in the beginning of the season y'all helped me get my variable speed pump situated. *i disabled the main drains, drawing strictly from the skimmers. *i have a high speed setting that runs for 2 hours, strongly generating a circular flow of water around the perimeter of the pool *i have one...

some updates for anyone who cares. my mom says the visible algea went away after 1 day of mustard algea shock level maintenance. but every 3 hours, the pool is still losing 12-15ppm in sunlight and roughly the same overnight. so i've continued to shock it. beginning to think i might have to...

thanks for the advice. my mom will go to the store tomorrow to get a deck brush and some comet. work log: raised FC level to 34 raised TA to 78 raised pH to 7.2

no, they actively use it. my mom is old and she does her best. her biggest problem is trichlor, like we all know, because everything's great until it blows up. i'm glad you guys were able to confirm it looks organic, that's what i figured. i will initiate the SLAM and report back. regarding...

background: 24Kgal pool. 16'x38' vinyl, steel wall. trichlor puck float for chlorination. using my tf-100 test kit. FC: 10 CC: 0 CYA: 60 TA: 60 PH: 6.8 problem: there are some yellowish/green looking deposits that using her older pool brush i can't scrub off and i'm strong. the water is...

yeah, so i bought the 25lb bag too before seeing this thread. i did look up the SDS beforehand.https://www.snowjoe.com/images/gallery/MELT-Calcium%20Chloride%20Pellets%20SDS-R2.pdf oddly enough though, the 50# bag doesn't seem to differ in chemical composition from the 25# bag. i'm...

do i need to add hardness to my pool? ph: 7.5 fc: 7 cya: 70 ta: 80 ch: 25-75 (i'm colorblind and it looks blue to start, maybe a hint of purple) salt: 3400 when i put all of this in pool math, it says my csi is like ~-.8 i was told by the pb that i needed to add hardness, because as water...

it does seem that the spurts in the return are related to the swg. whew. as far as pump basket bubbles, that all seems well and good. so i'm guessing what looks like a low water level (meaning the bucket has the top of impeller input tube at 1/2 heigh and the water's roughly 3/4 height, with...

regarding question one: no, not immediately. if i run the pump for a day on 3300rpm, the basket has no bubbles whatsoever. if i stop the pump and run it at 1200 then at first there are no bubbles, the next day there are a few small onces at the surface, then the next day there is a few large...

so on low speed for many days, the pump basket doesn't fill with water (though it fills high enough that the impeller? input is fully submerged. if it interchange high speed and low speed, the pump goes from little bubbles, to a large bubble, to the basket not being full of water. i noticed on...

Currently the returns all are pointed at 12 oclock. Should I change that? Between the outermost returns in a peninsula, with a return slightly left of the peninsula toward the deep end. There is also a peninsula between the skimmers. The low end return (outermost) has a gulf to its right, so it...

i suspect my skimming is ineffective with my vs pump at "low" speeds. i find that even at 1750rpm, the surface water in low end of my pool accumulates debris that doesn't seem to go anywhere. i only observed it for 5-10 minutes and it basically stayed stagnant or moved around in a circle that...

thanks, mark. all really helpful replies!

so when i run my pump @1600rpm, the pump basket has a large bubble at the top. i don't know if that's normal but no matter how much i bleed air from the filter, it doesn't go away. no clue how or where the air is drawn from. i can tell you that when my pb's tech primed the pump, he did not...

yes, sorry, i guess my chart didn't indicate that i was constantly adding chemicals to the "pond" on a daily basis before i had any equipment running; equipment making the "pond" a "pool". at first i was trying to keep FC above 10, toward the end above 13. when they hooked up the equipment...

so i had to wait a while to get the electrician in to open the pool. i had to wait even longer for the pb to actually open it. so about 2 weeks went by with the water not circulating. here are my logs from those days. i immediately SLAMed the pool and brushed all aspects every day. ph fc cya...

thanks for the reply. i'll adjust the valve to draw 100% suction from skimmers. the pb recommended i use the main drains to help circulate the cold water away from the bottom. is there a time other than cleaning where i'd want to activate the main drains? some other questions: 1) does it seem...

so if i run both the main drains and the skimmers, i get some decent waterflow at 1600rpm. it's certainly not what i was getting at 2800rpm, which is what the pb insists i use. because my pool's irregular shaped, i wonder if i get enough surface movement to properly skim it @1600. thing is if i...