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ohhhh ok....ty so much for that information. I never knew that. Guess I will always learn something new when it comes to the pools :wink: I will try this and also I am going for a new camera today too so hopefully I will get to get some before and after pics this time. I will let you guys...

Hey Richard! Thanks for the reply. I am going to get some of that today at the pool store when I leave work. I have a question though...you said to vacuum to waste. On my filter system it has a whirlpool setting, backwash, test, and filter. Would I do it as a vacuum to backwash at the same...

Well guys, I had every intentions of keeping you guys up to date and getting a pic on here but many things happened that got in the way :? My camera broke, my daughter is very sick with gallstones (and she is only 14) and it rained a gazillon times so we always had to start over again on the...

Thank you so much for the encouragement everyone! I was having a terrible day that day and felt very much defeated. We have begun the process of cleaning the pool that afternoon after posting and this morning it is a very light green already...yippy! :lol: I can't see anything on the...

Ok, I know I messed up and messed up bad. Our pool was installed April 2007 and I started the BBB method at that time. I have stuck to it and tried to close my pool as best I could understand when the swimming season was over. During swimming season, I only had one issue with algea and that...

Thanks for the reply Dave! Ok what I will do is watch it for the next 3 days and then come back and post on how it is testing over those 3 days. I am feeling confident that I probably have nothing to worry about: You guys are so good :wink: and I love this forum!!!!! And thank you so much...

Here are my pool lvls today: FC - 5ppm TC - 5ppm CC - 0 TA - 160 PH - 7.2 CYA - 20 The alk came down some and so did PH but I was expecting that with using the pucks. I ended up using 3 pucks to see what would happen. I was hoping that my CYA would come up just a little more. CYA is still...

Thanks chem geek! I will keep a watch on it today. I will post later on what my water lvls are today cause I just got back from the dr's office and about to go out and enjoy the pool but also do the normal maint on it too. I am hoping that it hasn't changed and it is just nothing really at...

Thank you so much Jason! I was so scared that I might have done something wrong and might have another algea breakout. I hated when that happened and I learned a great deal from it. I watch my pool like I do my kids...haha My kids are probably wishing I would quit standing over the top of...

Oh wow...I never thought of that. Thank you for that info! My daughter had to have allergy shots for the longest time cause she is absolutely allergic to everything known...lol But she is slowly but surely growing out of some of it. But some comes and goes, like she can eat a strawberry no...

Thanks for the reply's! Ok I have the TF Tester kit. And I was going to do all the testing today on it cause I just got the tester, but right in the middle of me testing, I had gotten a call to come to work early..ugh :( So I will have to test the other stuff tomorrow morning. For the...

Ok so I have not have one problem in the 2 months I have had my pool installed. I go out today as a normal day and test my lvls and this is what I got. Chlorine - 2ppm CYA - 20 (checked this past weekend and it was at 40) TA - 170(checked it 3 days ago and it was at 130 and I did not add...

Thanks so much for the warm welcome! I don't have pictures yet of my pool, still working on getting the deck built half way around it and cleaning up the back yard. Ugh that is a lot of work :lol: We are working on also trying to get a few trees that we didn't know where going to shade our...

Just wanted to update on my issue. I continued to run my filter 24/7, while shocking at around 15ppm, brushing the sides daily and vacuuming daily. By that following thursday, it was almost clear. So I went and bought Polysheen Blue by Bioguard cause I didn't want to raise or lower any of my...

I am by no means an "expert" and this is my first pool season, but I have done lots and lots of research on owning a pool and all the maintenance. I have asked everyone I know who has a pool, which is a good 25 people. And I called every pool place within 50 miles of me. They all said almost...

lol Guess it is about time I introduce myself. My name is Dana and I live in Cartersville, GA. Just installed a 27ft round ABG pool a couple of months ago and have been reading, reading, reading on taking care of my pool. Came across this forum from the other poolforum.com site. And boy am I...

Hi Rob! Sounds like the same thing that happen to us. Our neighbor across the street decided to sell his house and took down his 2 year old ABG pool and gave it to us. I had to replace the liner, and then because we had so much problems with trying to install it, we hired a contracting pool...

We had the same problem when the contracting pool company came in to install our ABG pool. It is a 27 ft round and there was only one area in the back yard we could put it at because of tree's and stump removal would have been costly. So we put it closer to our original deck and going to build...

Thanks for the reply! I do backwash everytime I vacuum. Guess I am just getting worried that I wasn't doing something right :wink:

HI! I am new to the site but have been doing lots of research and doing the BBB method on my new pool. We just had it installed at the end of march a 27ft round and 52inches deep. We have no had on problem with our pool water and I constantly tested the pool water, kept them at the ranges of...