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I'm attempting to follow step 1 of waterbear's fabulous how-to on adding borates to pool, but I cannot get the TA down to the target range of 70-80. I did drop initially from about 140 down to 120, but i'm stuck there. It took me a day to realize that I had to add more acid to "fuel" the...

Quick question: does killing algae "consume" chlorine? I'm trying to get my newly opened pool up to shock level, and, after adding the recommended volume based on the pool calculator 3 times total, in the last few hours, my FC reading is still 1! Yes, the water is brownish, the first cycle of...

I am like several other folks who have posted here recently. We bought a house with a pool (vinyl liner, 18,000 gal, one skimmer/one return, with a sand filter), but no manuals or instructions. The previous owner told me it was a piece of cake to maintain, but without any directions, I felt...

has anyone installed a Fastlane unit (made by Endless pools) into an existing vinyl-lined pool? friend's of ours have the endless pool, and love it - i'm just wondering about installing this unit into an existing (somewhat small) pool. the whole point, of course, is that 10yds length means a...

I've been combing through this forum on and off this summer. We bought a house last fall, which came with a pool, and everything was going "swimmingly" until about one month ago, when mustard algae hit hard, and i have been fighting a battle, initially losing, but now i think i have the upper...