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I was out on vacation for a week and a half and came back to a nice mustard algae looking pool. I brushed off the algea as much as possible and used a polymer based algaecide and it's looking almost back to perfect now. I did have a hard time brushing off some stains and I actually put some...

Hi, My daughter will be walking around by the summer (1y in May) and I want to make my pool child proof. I want to go for a safety net since it's the least visually intrusive and possibly the safest option as well. I came across the site Katchakid.com. Does anyone have any experience with...

After a few bad experiences at my pool store, I am now purchasing my chemicals from Home Depot. It's close and they have everything I need, except for one thing: muriatic acid. However, they do have dry acid, which should work just fine. Now, just to make sure, I was wondering if there are...

So, I typically always use liquid chlorine. My wife went to the pool store the other day and he told her chlorine powder is more efficient, so she came home with that instead. Long story short, ever since I started using the powder chlorine, I noticed my CYA level has gone up. Is that the...

I'm looking to save some time on my weekly pool cleaning task (I currently do it manually). What I determined so far, is that I would probably want one that is powered by the pool pump. I don't have a whole lot of debris on my pool floor (mainly some leaves). It also doesn't matter too much...

I once read that levels such as CH are best read when the water temp is around 70-80F. Since the water is currently colder than that, I put my test sample out in the sun for a little while until the water was warmer. Will that distort any readings? (the bottle is not clear btw, so I assume it...

I actually have a related question to FCL and CYA levels. My chlorine readings drop like a brick in just a day or two. Ph and Alkalinity and other levels are within range. My CYA reading is only 26ppm. Should I significantly bump it up? Any downsides to a high CYA level? I always thought...

Hi, When we replastered the pool recently, we lost our light because it was no longer up to spec (bringing it up to spec was not worth the cost). It's not too big of a deal but I would like to have some sort of lighting again in the pool, so I was thinking about a floating light, preferably...