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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I ordered this exact pump from HF, used a 20% off coupon and bought the 2 year warranty with the money saved (I am not a big warranty girl, but the brushing issues made it a smart move). I have everything else I need already. It is set to arrive Tuesday and I...

I wasn't trying to represent the FLA person's skill level. Just providing the asked-for explanation of a dead man. The pipe coming out of the ground is the dead man and there is no water return - that's the idea - to get the groundwater up and away. Yes, I have a gravel bed and yes the pool was...

This is s description I got from a pool builders' forum on DIY Home Improvement Information | DoItYourself.com : "Here is something else that most people in the business outside of fla. don't know. You HAVE to run a pump 24hrs a day on the hole when you build the pool just to be able to build...

No way unless it is the world's smallest pump - the pipe is approximately 2" wide.

My liner installer had a Hayward Super Pump on it - that looked like overkill to me but what do I know? That's why I am here….

Yessir and I have learned from reading in the last hour that I need an in-ground pool pump because it will sit above the level of the water it is pulling out. What do you recommend? Also should I have it hard wired onto dead man - that seems much easier than intermittently pulling it out of the...

Hello TFP'ers! I live in a wet area i.e. clay soil and high water table. Luckily, my pool installer years ago put in a dead man to drain off excess water from around and under the pool. Unluckily, he did not tell me how to use it. So I just installed a new liner want it to last so now I am going...

We trucked in some water because the installer said we needed to in order to hold liner in place. Did not get iron free water as far as I know. I started adding more chlorine this am and it has cleared already. Will continue to SLAM until I pass OFCT. Thanks. - - - Updated - - - We are on well...

So we had a new vinyl liner installed this week. The installer had several trucks of water brought in and we are completing the fill with our garden hose. We are over the returns and almost up to the skimmers - using the main drain in the meantime for circulation. So last night I tested and...

I would never want to offend, as you all have been so helpful with my pool over the years. So I will just post my dilemma and you can give me your feedback. Earlier this season I purchased a brand new Compupool CPSC48 with dreams of further automating my pool. But life intervened and we were not...

So I have had a great opening and at this point only see one point that concerns me - my low TA. I know I can add baking soda to raise it, but that will also send my pH up out of range I believe. So what's a girl to do - just slowly add bs and test a lot? Here are today's numbers: FC - 3 pH -...

It is a good morning here at the beach. I did my OCLT and my loss was.....0! I also did a CYA test this am and I have 30 ppm on that so now I am officially going to start shocking - even though my OCLT was perfect! The pool has only been open two days so there is still some stuff to resolve but...

Got it. OK, so I am guessing what shock level to maintain without CYA reading but what can you do when you first open and haven't had a week for added CYA to register on test? I assumed there would be no CYA when I opened pool..that was possibly a mistake I am thinking now too. But I will wait a...

Robbie - Thanks for giving me clearly more credit than I deserve for understanding this stuff. Why am I technically no shocking at this point? Thought I was... :?

Hi everyone - opening going the best ever thanks to BBB method! Numbers coming on line pretty quickly. Of course don't know CYA reading yet as I just added it 2 days ago so I am guessing a bit on the shock. So I added my last dose of shock (I know, noun not a verb...) about an hour ago and am...

So you are saying it is fine to take off the pool cover and just start running the newly installed SWG before the water is balanced? In other threads it seemed like people were opening their pools for the season, cleaning them up and balancing with BBB method and then installing SWG and adding...

Hi, I am relative newcomer to this site but love it. Have used it over last few summers to master BBB method with great success but am now making the leap to SWG. Just got my new Compupool SWG and am totally over whelmed. I have a few questions for you masters of the pool universe. First, as I...

Here are my AM numbers after 2 days of round the clock filtering and lots of 6% bleach. FC 3 CC .5 pH 7.2 TA 90 CYA undetectable I know I don't want CYA high - had that issue last year but am thinking I need to raise it some to have bleach work. I have a small bottle of stabilized chlorinator...

Hi everyone! I am new to BBB this year and used it to make my pool (and my life) a lot easier this summer. Now I am re-opening a 200 gallon fiberglass hot tub using chlorine. I am getting there but need a bit of feedback. My most recent readings are as follows: FC 10 - just added bleach bc the...

Help - I just poured 2 pounds of stabilizer in front of my return jets - no sock - because I was not smart enough to read this thread before I did it. So I poured it in slowly and just as slowly, it all settled on the bottom of my vinyl pool. I tried to brush it around to get it to dissolve and...

OK - So I am getting there. We had a big rainfall this evening and I am assuming that lowered my FC a bit, but the relevant numbers are now as follows: FC - 2 CC - 3.5 TA- 110 pH - 7.5 CYA - waiting to test as I added stabilizer 3 days ago - also pucks are raising it So I am not using pucks to...

Thanks for reassuring me! Good to feel more confident about this home chemistry experiment I have going here... No, I did not make a posting error. I only added 2 pounds of stabilizer because I read that trichlor pucks will raise my CYA too and I am trying to use them up. I got two 96oz jugs of...

Hi all - you guys and this site seem amazing and truly in line with my philosophy of "if you can't fix it, you don't really own it". That being said, I got my TF50 test kit and have run the numbers for three days. Started with the following levels: FC 0 CC 0 TC 0 TA 90 pH 6.8 CYA <10 CH not...