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About the water loss. The differences between the water loss in the bucket and the water loss in the pool was 1/2". If I lost more water in the pool than in the bucket, doesn't that mean we have a leak?

The house was built in the 1970's, not sure when pool was built. We redid the plaster about 7 years ago and added another line for the barracuda rather than having it in the skimmer

I've cared for my in-ground pool for the last 10 years thanks to TroubleFreePool. Lately it seems we need to add water more frequently, at least once a week. I've also had to add CYA three times this year. A week ago today I added granular CYA thinking maybe it would last longer. I added the CYA...

We have an older Barracuda that we have been maintaining over the years. Our current problem is the unit keeps flipping over and remaining there. The issue began with the unit not moving along the bottom. Replaced the foot pad. The unit then began unscrewing the hose from the cleaner, the large...

I guess I misspoke, it is a dedicated suction line, not a skimmer. Thanks for your response. - - - Updated - - - Patrick & Kim. I'll need to look at the cost and ease of use. Can you recommend some brands for me to look into? Thanks for your replies.

To answer your questions... - We currently only have the one skimmer so when the Barracuda is attached there is no skimming of the top of the water, once we remove the Barracuda it skims well I guess, being our first pool I don't have anything to compare it to. - This is our first pool, the...

I was unsure if this was the appropriate forum to post this... Please let me know if this should be in another forum... We're having our 1970's 9 foot deep pool replastered very soon. Both bids we received suggested we add an additional skimmer in which case they'll need to "trench, core drill...

I did it exactly as last night. Last night was 28.5 ppm & this am was 29.5 ppm(+1ppm?), last chlorine addition was yesterday morning... Will continue to let FC drop to between 18 - 24 ppm today & test again tonight... Thanks for the advise & I will go back to one scoop once this is settled...

Just finished my FC testing for tonight. I added 2 scoops of powder rather than 1 & it was very dark. I had noticed lately that after I added the powder it wasnt as dark as it used to be but would darken once I began adding the liquid drops, which I thought was strange. Anyway, tonight I used...

I dont mind NOT adding chlorine for a day or two after the many cases I've been through. Although with it being over 100 here my FC once dropped 5 ppm in about 2 hours so it probably wont take too long... Thanks for the responses...

Thanks for the response... CYA was 80 just before we started the shocking process. We did some backwashing during the procees but still used the 80 CYA to calculate FC for Shock Level. I just ran the CYA test again & it looks somewhere between 50 - 60. I have read the CYA level at about 60 but...

Update: Still plugging away, have kept FC well above the 31 ppm recommended. My OCLT readings are all over the place, not constantly lowering as they were earlier in this shocking process.... Here are my most recent readings; 43.5 to under 40 this am (over 3.5 ppm lost) 38 to 36 Sun am (2 ppm...

After all this hard work I wanted to be sure I wasnt in the instance to go another week to make sure the filter was clean.... My OCLT was a loss of 3 ppm... Maybe tomorrow... Thanks for all the responses...

Am I On The Right Track? * UPDATE* Here is an update.. Chlorine loss of only 4ppm last night. Hoping to be down to 1 in the next few days... Light niche is still soaking in a bucket of pool water, had turned the water cloudy white the first few nights but is now clear. Pool water is clear...

That's probably what it is, it was probably hiding behind the light & it got sucked out when we cleaned with the hose. I wont worry about it then. Last night FC dropped from 48 ppm to 41.5 ppm, so a loss of 6.5 ppm, hoping that loss reduces each night to less then 1 ppm this weekend, fingers...

The poles & aluminum are causing the clumps? I've been soaking everything that touches the pool since I began nearly a week ago, I read that on this site somewhere, I think... Should I remove everything but the Barracuda?

Fixed my Baracuda myself. As I was writting my prevoius post I realised I needed to take the whole thing apart, including the hoses. Sure enough I found more of this mysterious granual clumps... Now my Baracuda is jittering right along... Yeah :-D ! Still worry about what the granual clumps...

Forgot to mention that I found white granuales on the poles that were floating in the water after we cleaned the light. The metal pole is pitted this morning & the granuales have sort of embedded themselves overnight. Just now I found what I thought was a crumped tissue or paper at the bottom...

Thanks for all the support :) . DH was able to remove light niche. He said there was a bunch of what he thought was dirt, when I came over I saw a cloud of dirty grey/white. He used the vacuum hose to clean out the hole where the light goes in which was very "dirty" with something dark. We...

Here's a theory... I see a pattern concerning my OCLT. Each night I lose 3 ppm less than the night before, first night I lost 13.5 ppm. 2nd night I lost 10 ppm & last night I lost 7 ppm. At that rate I'm hoping tonight I'll loose only 4 ppm & Wed night a loss of 1 ppm. Does this pattern &...

Your right... I wasnt able to remove the light niche myself, almost felt like the screw was rusted in place... Hoping my husband can remove it tonight...

Just so I understand. After I make sure electricity is off I need to unscrew at the top, hope the wiring is long enough, set the entire piece of light fixture on the deck. Once it's on the deck, how to I clean it? If the wiring is long enough can I set it in a separate bucket of chlorine...

Can you enlighten me as to how to remove the light niche? This is our first inground pool & we have not even swam in this sucker yet...

MOD EDIT: I have moved this post/thread under your active thread on this subject. Please keep posts related to clearing up you pool in this thread for now...It helps us know the history :) -linen This is my 3rd post on shocking this pool. Please take a look & tell me if I’m on track...

Well, after not finding any answers online we decided to pry underneath it all. We found there is a horizontal crack in the cement underneath the tiles that we believe has grass growing from the adjacent dirt/grass area. We removed the concrete that appears to have been added over the crack &...

I have another post on this forum asking about shocking & running the filter. I have a new problem & not sure which forum to post it as I didnt find previous posts on this topic. In the process of shocking, decided to pry some loose tiles to see if there is algae under them. I did find some...