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    Thank you TFP!!!!

    1 day after getting running and the pool is SPARKLING!! Finishing the SLAM because I am still losing chlorine, but this is the EASIEST opening I've ever had. Best part is I had ONE trip to the pool store and that was to buy a backwash hose. :-) I'm in it for $25 of shock right now and that's...
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    Cya / Slam chart

    Hi! I am getting ready to open my pool for the season. I was looking for the cya chart and every link that comes up in Tapatalk seems to link to a thread that doesn't actually have the chart listed. Can someone point me in the direction of one that is posted? Been searching in tapatalk and none...
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    Stair weight idea

    I have large wedding cake steps and am trying to come up with an easy way to weight then down. My husband suggested pvc coated dumbbells. Maybe 4 10or 15 pounders. Anybody have thoughts on this idea? Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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    What to do with antifreeze in the filter?

    Hi all, this is my first year opening my new pool. I have never had a filter that stayed outside in the winter with underground lines. The pool builder put antifreeze assuming it was pool antifreeze) in the lines when he closed it. To open it, what do I do with that? Backwash before...
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    Questions on first Slam/ Can I use my robotic vacuum?

    Hi, My pool was cloudy today and chlorine wouldn't hold when I kept adding it. I decided to slam this evening. I have a cya level of 50, so I was targeting a shock level of 20. I overshot and am at FC level of 28, showing CC of .5 now. I didn't test cc before I started (whoops!) Water...
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    Stamped concrete dust turned pool dark brown

    I just had my stamped concrete patio around my new pool installed. They had left all the colored dust all over it and we got a terrible rain storm. My pool is now dark down. I have doubled up on skimmer socks, running filter 24/7. Using my pool robot with 2 micron filter bags 2x a day...
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    It's sparkling!!!!

    It has been a loooong few weeks. We have metals and apparently a ton of pollen in our water and have run the spectrum of colors. We've had turqouise, dark purple/ black, yellow, darker yellow, green and plain old cloudy. All the while, the water has been fairly balanced- it was so...
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    Idea on water clearing

    So the pool water has been cloudy for the last week or two. Water chemistry seems to be good. FC 3 TC 3 TA 150 PH 7.2 (Was 7.6 with a TA of 190...just lowered hoping to clear cloudiness ) CH 200 CYA 15 I tried putting in the cellulose product from Leslies to boost my filter performance 2...
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    Yellowish /greenish water

    I have a 2 week old pool that has been blue for about 2 of the days it has been standing. I topped off with well water through an Ecoone filter the first day and found that we had metals. 2 rounds of metal out in the first week and 2 CuLator bags in the pump skimmer, metal readings are 0...