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Pool is crystal clear! Levels are all good. Kids went swimming yesterday, they are nuts... only 61 degrees (surface temp)!!! Thank you Poolstored for the great advice and keeping me focused on the right way to do things.

Great! Step 3 done, no issues. Going to proceed with the CYA and SLAM, and will report back. It will probably take some time... thanks again!

I added too much baking soda... not sure what happened but it's up to 100. I used the calculator. PH is at 7.4 now. Is 100 TA a problem?

I did a good job of cleaning before I closed and had a safety cover on all winter, so not a lot of leaves. Likely a dead critter or two.

Thanks guys, really appreciate the help. One more piece of info, water is green, visible algae. Didn't realize until I just now pulled the whole cover off.

A year old (I think) could be older Edit: just checked, almost exactly 1 year old. Retested, still getting 10 ppm. PH is definitely low. The Ph test resulted in yellow that was a little off the chart (less than 7.0)

It's been a while since I read that, thanks. Do you recommend I do an oclt as a first step here?

Sorry forgot, Cc is 0

FC 0 Cya 0 PH 7.0 (maybe a little less) TA 10 Salt 400 ppm I'm planning on slamming first, then getting FC and cya numbers in order, then I'll test everything again and figure out how to address PH and TA. Is this the correct order?

I'm just realizing that emptying it only 18" will actually make it tough to winterize in the first place, since the return jets will be underwater. Maybe I drain it where it needs to go to winterize, and then make sure it's filled up to 18" before we get the snow and ice that will weigh the...

Thank you!

I get that, thanks. The question remains: Do I ultimately go lower than 18" below the coping against the safety cover directions but below my return jets so ice doesn't reach the (covered and winterized) jet height? Or 18" max and not worry about ice outside the return jets Thanks, I get what...

LOL I always do that... The Intakes are 2 skimmers (basically in the surface) and the return jets are the lowest part that I'm concerned with. I do blow everything out as described (although I don't know what bungee plugs are?), and cap the returns once I get as much of the water out of the...

I'm installing a mesh safety cover this fall for the first time, directions say that you shouldn't let the water drop more than 18" below the pool edge with the cover on, for proper support of the cover by the water's surface. When I close the pool I always drop the water down much lower to...

Anyone else? BPerry's method looks like it will work great, but he really just extended his concrete deck, which isn't possible in my case.

Thanks! What length did you use (if you remember) and how much concrete did you end up using per tube? These won't be in grass but I figured others might have and it's close enough to what I'm doing.

I'm hoping someone on here has tried this and can let me know how it went. My pool deck is about half brick (on compacted gravel and sand, polymetric sand joints), half loose stone on top of compacted gravel... less than ideal for the brass anchors to support the mesh safety cover I want to...

It's the worst! And I've found the instructions and forum advice to be inconsistent and adding to the frustration of a very difficult and flawed test: Cya and fc are the most important factors to a chlorine balanced pool...but the test is plus or minus 20 and it doesn't matter as long as it's...

Thanks that is helpful. What about cost for a heating system? Just looking for ballpark.

My pool is somewhere around 41,000 gallons and I live in RI. We have a natural gas line at the house. Roughly what would I be looking at spending to get a heater for the pool to bump up a few degrees or so. Would it be worth it for a pool this size?

Thanks Pat

Spring time in New England!!!! Or at least it feels that way. We've been surprised by April snowstorms before.... Anyway, the nice weather is motivating me to get some work done ahead of pool season, and one job I want to tackle is redoing the PVC for the pump, filter and valves. I'm pretty...

One of the inlet valve handles is broken and sharp, the plumbing is kind of sticks out more than it needs to, and now I have a suction side leak that I can't track down. I'm going to replace it all this Spring. I'm probably change the paths of the PVC a little, any tips or stuff I shouldn't do?

Bring it inside when you close the pool. I use the tft ones with glycerin but they still go bad if I leave them installed through the winter. I took it inside this year and it's working great this spring. Not sure if you all close pools in the winter down there in 'bama

Thank you both! The thermistor arrived from Amazon in 2 days, I installed it and everything is working great! The soldering was a total pain, but I my iron is old and was the real problem. With a better soldering iron it would be a lot easier. The legs of the thermistor were too big for the...

Worked great, used a ton of it to SLAM and only saw a few bubbles. Thanks all!

Thanks! I'll go through the thermistor checks.

3800 67 21.7 0.00 100P -0 AL-0 r1.21 I'll lookup what these mean and edit my post to include it.