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We've had a polaris 280 for years now and need a new cleaner. I see on polaris' website that there is the 280, 380, 480, and 3900 sport. I would love recommendations and advice. We do have the dedicated booster pump and cleaning line. Our old 280 has been rebuilt too many times and husband is...

i posted last year about my bug invasion. nothing i did ever got rid of the bugs. i was using the BBB method for the first two years after my pool was built. Its a 17,000 gal gunite. I followed the advice here and did overnight chlorine loss tests a few times. my chlorine was always good with no...

my mother in law found out after it was too late that one of the regular neighbor kids took a swim in her pool who has just been treated for staph infection. His is a really serious case that required surgery to save his finger. they also say that it is one of the worse types of staph that is...

i am so tired of fighting bugs to where i'm just at the point of saying let them have it. every morning i wake up to this. every day i get them all out. this is real old now. i ask other people if they have bugs to this extent. i think everybody does have them, but not this bad. my pool is so...

there is a debate, sort of, over at garden web about CYA levels. i gave the info that i got from here about CYA needing to be higher now that i have a SWG. this one person totally shot this down and gave me this link. i really wanted for someone here, since you guys are the one that i have...

i bought a bottle of aquacheck test strips from a pool store before i got some in from duraleigh because i just could not wait. i figure i will use them all. no big deal. the scale on the back of the bottle where you read your salt level after you test is different. for example, the test strip...

i just got my SWG and decided to add borates too. i tested yesterday, and it looks like my borates are at 80. sometimes i don't read the color thing too well, but i had my son check it out for me. he matched it to 80 too. he had no idea what i was going for. is this going to be too high?

I am happy to report that my SWG is running now and everything is absolutely perfect! This is going to be soooo nice. I was a BBB method person, but the daily chlorox pouring really started getting old after one full summer and winter. I am so amazed at how this thing makes chlorine. I am...

we just got our SWG connected today. yesterday we added 9 40lb bags salt. that was under what the pool calculator told me to add for 3000ppm. we let the pump run yesterday and shut it off. i turned it on again this morning and it has run all day until late this afternoon when we got the...

hi guys, i am a pain, i know. i am preparing for my SWG. yesterday, i checked all my numbers. my cya was between 50-60. i tested with the colorQ photometer and TF-100 to make sure. I added three cups of stablizer following the pool calculator. (target-70, now-60 16900 gallon plaster using...

my pool builder just called me asking me which SWG i wanted. i don't know. these are the two that he tells me about. the aquarite, they have used for years. the resilience is something new.

we are about to convert our chlorine pool to SWG. i use the poolcalculator and have figured how much salt to add. i am trying to find out the best way to check my salt from now on. i have the lamotte color Q photometer test kit. is there an electronic kit for salt? Or, are test strips good? I...

We are planning an outdoor cooking area soon. I have been designing and think I have finally come up with a plan. I have lots of outdoor kitchen do-it-yourself books. In all of them, just about every kitchen area is built using the cement blocks instead of the steel studs that I see here being...

Forgive me if I didn't search correctly on this topic, or if the info is right under my nose and I'm not seeing it. I think I may want to convert my chlorine pool to salt water. I switched to the BBB method not long after my pool was started up because of the great info here regarding the high...

Hi, I am finally able to log on to my computer since being hit by Gustav on Monday. Its been a real pain in the _ss trying to clean up without power. We are running on a generator and we now finally have internet back up just now along with cell phone service. So, I will be able to use my...

I just wanted to come back and post some photos of how my deck came out after the 'deck renew' paint job. I ended up choosing the 'dark sand buff' after getting advice from other forum member here. I think that it came out pretty close to my virtual photos I did in Photoshop. Here is the...

I have Frontier Deck by Steigmeir. They make a deck renew paint that you can paint over your existing deck with. My deck is just like kool deck, just a different company. Anyway, I want to go with something darker because of stains mostly. I had the company send me actual samples and I then...

I feel as though I have wasted $110 on the ColorQ test kit. I have the TF-100 kit, but have always had trouble reading the ph. I have been comparing my TF-100 kit to the new colorQ kit for 3 days now and every test is off except for the ph and alkalinity. I had heard that the FC and CH should be...

CYA test results I just got in a ColorQ test kit by LaMotte. I have the tf-100 test kit, but really have trouble with the Ph readings. I did a comparison test of the two kits twice now, one yesterday afternoon and one this morning. The only two readings that are the same are the Ph and...

With all the discussion about chlorine pucks and feeders, why are there no 3' pucks avaialbe without CYA in them? Is it impossible to produce chlorine pucks without the stablizer in them? I'm to the point now, (and I was warned here by a few that it would happen), where my CYA is getting too...

I was trying to find photos of different algaes so that i can know what they look like. I was brushing my pool this morning when I noticed what looked like a leaf but it wasn't. Its not really black or raised. I can't feel it all when I rub my fingers over it. It kind of looks like a tea colored...

My pool was completed in November '07. since then, I have lots of trouble keeping my Ph down. I use the pool calculator and the test kit from here. I know that newer plastered pools have high Ph, but for how long? Mine is about 7 months old now. My alkaline used to stay between 100-120, but now...

Is is alright to use the borax and baking soda, but still use my chlorine feeder? I don't know if I'm ready to give that up, its just too convenient. I find that my CYA level stays at around 40 all the time.

I was told at a pool store that everyone has to shock their pool about once a week in the summer. Is this true? I thought that I read somewhere that if you keep your water balanced that you do not have to do this. I have the TF-100 test kit and my chlorine is always good. I have never had any...

I have white areas on the bottom of my pool. They seem to be getting worse. I have been keeping a record of my test results since my pool was first started up with the sticker on the trouble free test kit box. I was going to use a jandy stainmaster to get these spots off, but will not do that...

I've tried a search on this, and I'm sure that it has been discussed before since its been out for over a year now. I do have the test kit that I bought here, but was looking for something to use for my everday quick test. I find that reading the ph number is quite difficult sometimes with the...

My pool was finished around the middle of November '07. I have not wanted to show it yet because of the yucky mud around it and no landscaping done. Weve planted some rye grass and I've managed to get a little landscaping done so far. I have been learing how to maintain this winter, and I really...

Hi, I am able to log in now, but still not able order the test kit. Its strange because even though i am already logged in when I add the kit to my cart, when I go to checkout it wants me to log in again. This is where my login is failing. My pool was just completed two weeks ago today and I am...

My pool was just finished two weeks ago tomorrow on the 22 of Novemeber. I'm glad that I found this forum and am sure that I will be a regular here. I just joined for two years and then tried to purchase the test kit. For some reason, I can add it to my cart, but when i go to log in to go to the...