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:party: UPDATE! :party: Hello All, Just wanted to report... after fixing the O Ring over the weekend the water cleared dramatically... my wife vacuumed the pool over the weekend, we got the Kreepy Krauly moving about 24/7 pm Monday, and I've been maintaining the levels every day. I am happy...

Just wanted to drop a quick update: By the time I got home last night the pool was bright blue... but still cloudy. I added some PH down and some Chlorine. By this morning my Chlorine levels were still maxed out. (My cheapy test kit only goes to 5) and my PH was down to about 7.6. I decided...

Thanks for the replies guys! I'll hang onto the powdered "shock" packets if I ever need to raise the CYA as you suggested Jason. Thanks for your input to dman... nice to see another CPA around! I'll adjust the PH tonight and Shock using Bleach and Chlorine according to the Pool Calculator and...

That's pretty awesome that they market a product as "Shock" that isn't really a great product to Shock with! (I hope my sarcasm is apparent here! haha) I guess I'll go ahead and just use the high amounts of liquid Chlorine and Chlorox to get the Chlorine levels up and return the remaining shock...

Looks like this is the chemical data sheet for the Shock I have: http://www.kem-tek.com/MSDS/040%20MSDS.pdf

Thanks for the replies! I will go ahead and adjust the PH down when I get home tonight and according to the schedules in the Pool School looks like I need to be about ~20 for the shocking process and I will maintain that until things clear up. Thanks for the link on the Test kits Butterfly, I...

Thanks for your replies! Jason, Thanks for the CC clarification. I have edited my original post to show 0 for CC. The water is not nice and clear. It is very cloudy, no longer green as of this morning, but you can barely see the bottom of the pool. (and the pool isn't that deep!) As far as...

Hello All, I came across your site earlier this week looking for information on Automatic Pool cleaners as I was picking up a new Kreepy Krauly to help hopefully reduce some of my "Weekend vacuuming" chores! After I got that information though I became intrigued by "Pool School" and the "BBB...