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Re: Help with next step.... Hi; Thanks so much for the advice. I feel like I keep asking the same questions, but sometimes it takes a bit until I totally understand about things. Pool care shouldn't be this complicated, or so I thought. Its starting to make sense now. Unfortunately, due to...

Help with next step.... Continuation of saga... After draining the swamp as much as I could, tried to use shop vac to get the rest of the gunk on the bottom to no avail. Had serious issues with the unit and gave up. Went on to flushing with the hose until it looked the best it could; still...

Yay! I was able to borrow the wet dry vac from my office. I am gonna give it a go when I get home from work today. =) Then, I'm gonna refill the pool and use the BBB method.

Continuation of the saga... I drained the pool and had this layer of floc/dirt on the bottom. I was going to try to rig my pool vaccuum, but my idea didn't work :( . The next question is, do I refill the pool now with the gunk on the bottom and vaccuum it when it gets so full or do I...

Really? That is good to know. I keep hearing about ruining the liner if it gets drained too many times. Phew. I thought I was in trouble. Now if I could just get all the gunk out of the bottom, I could start looking forward to my backyard oasis. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get...

You know what? I kind of thought about that today as a possibility. I think my father-n-law has one. I have never used one, but maybe he will let me borrow it. Thanks again. I appreciate all the help I can get. =)

My saga continues......... Tried to get water cleared up. I had no luck. Still looked like a muddy pool. Gave up and drained. I know, I know, not good for my vinyl liner. :( There is 1 inch of water at the bottom of the pool with dirt and stuff in it. It looks like a water hole where...

Hi Richard320. Thanks so much for your response. I am all new at this and for the life of me have never figured out the vaccuum thing and have always been stuck messing with the garden hose. It can get very frustrating. I did try to paste in a picture of my filter but it wouldn't work...

Hi All: I hope I don't seem like I'm double posting. I'm trying not to, but I have another question concerning hooking up a vaccuum hose to my sand filter. My filter has great suction when it's filtering. It jets out the water very fast. I have checked the suction for the inlet into the...

Re: By George I Think I Don't Have It.... Thanks so much! I hate to be such a bug, but I am a newbie to pools and my hubby is so not interested in helping me. The pool is not his thing, but I am trying to get my backyard oasis. I'm a big tough girl and like to do things myself anyway. LOL...

Re: By George I Think I Don't Have It.... Do you think I should add some DE to my filter? If so how much do you think? Thanks so much for all the advice. I'm going over pool school also.

Re: By George I Think I Don't Have It.... Oh, I have taken a look at pool school. Wow! Its alot of info, but I was really surprised you can use BBB to take care of the water.

Re: By George I Think I Don't Have It.... Hi All: Thanks for answering. :-D I tested my water this morning and here are my results. CHL = very high, wasn't able to get reading pH = 7.0 ALK = 250 CAL= 0 CYRANIC = 52 Any recommendations of where to go now is greatly appreciated. I feel...

Re: By George I Think I Don't Have It.... Hi There: Thanks for the response. I want so badly to get this right, but feel overwhelmed with it all. I have a chlorine floater in the pool right now. I also had some powder power pro from Leslie's. I threw in one whole bag. I bought the 6...

By George I Think I Don't Have It.... Hi All; I'm a newbie and am trying to conquer my mountain (pool), but my journey isnt going so well. Ok here is my scenario... Started with cloudy water. Added stuff I shouldn't have and water was milky and cloudy. I emptied it down to a foot from the...

Oh, here is a good one. I have an Intex SF20110 Sand Filter. I want to hook up a vaccuum hose to the inlet to the filter, but find that there doesn't seem to be enough suction to vaccuum and I will have to end up using the annoying hose pole variety. Any suggestions to get more suction out of...

Hi Jason: Thanks so much for responding so quickly. Please let me know what testing kit you recommend and where to order. I really want to learn and am not very knowledgeable about pool chemestry. I really like it when steps are one, two, three (easy to understand). It is very frustrating...

I am not new to the site, but am returning. I have an Intex 18 x 48 AGP with an Intex SF20110 Sand Filter. I really like having it, because in the San Joaquin Valley, it gets really hot here. I recently opened it up and the water was cloudy and there was a lot of dirt at the bottom. I...