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I can't believe it's been a little more than a year since the wonderful group on this site provided so much help to me and my pool. During the past year life for me has presented a few challenges, keeping me from visiting as I'd like, but I wanted to take a minute to let Dave S. and the rest of...

Hi Mark, Been following your thread and although I can't offer much technical advice, I'm sending you some encouragement! These kind folks sure know what they're doing and will help get you blue in no time. Following the advice on this board, I went from green to clean in about 10 days...

Your theory sounded good to me waterbear. I added 2 scoops of the powder and the pink color held. I commenced to adding drops. I got up to 100 drops before deciding the pink just wasn't going away. I must have a major overdose of C. As a side note my brown golden retriever took a swim and...

Hi Dave, The basic test kit shows a dark orange color for the chlorine and shows 7.2 - 7.5 for PH. I double checked the bottle numbers I was using: the R-0870 DPD powder and the R-0871 chlorine test liquid for the FC test.

This old man needs a little more advice. This time on testing FC. I think I'm doing everything correctly but I'm not getting the expected results. I fill the tube to 10 ml and add a heaping scoop of the powder and swirl. The water turns pink with the addition of the powder but during the...

AnnaK - thank you for the positive feedback. But I have to say it wasn't difficult to trust and follow the instructions from the people who posted in this thread. I had spent a lot of time reading stickies and other threads in this forum before I posted mine and it was clear that not only did...

The difference between the pic I posted earlier in the thread and the one I just posted is night and day! Count me in as a converted BBB'r and a STRONG believer in the appropriate tools (like the right test kit - THANK YOU, you know who you are). My water has been clean and blue before, but...

What an improvement!

Update: For what it's worth I had the pool store check the water this afternoon to get a new CYA level after the refill. I was perplexed to see that it checks at the exact same level as it was prior to the refill - 151. Makes no sense. But I'm guessing that their test is inaccurate - can't...

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I appreciate the encouragement dpool, and right about now I need all the POP I can muster. I emptied the pool about half way through yesterday and this morning. It just finished filling with "fresh". I checked CYA with my kit test (black dot tube) and I STILL get a reading of well over 100...

I really appreciate the encouragement, and I'll get my sig line updated with my pool info soon. I'm well into my partial draining and tomorrow sometime I should be done with the refill and ready for a new CYA check. I've learned more from this site in the last day than I've ever learned about...

Thanks for the input Dave, I think your advice is spot on. Trouble is, I'm one of those older folks on a fixed income and am not in a position to splurge on that fancy kit. Unfortunately I'll have to rely on the kit I have and the pool store (ugh.....) for my testing. I've got the pool...

Ok, makes sense. Off to go sump pump shopping. Going to pick up some POP while I'm out....... :-)

Ok, get my CYA lowered before anything else. I've got no way to drain (filter doesn't backwash) but I do have a bit of room to fill with fresh water - provided I can put enough "new" water in it, I should get the same effect, correct?

Sounds like I need to get a an accurate chlorine test kit that will read the high numbers before I proceed further..............without it, it sounds like I only have answers to part of the puzzle.....

Gee, didn't expect replies so quick - you people are awesome....................

Thanks for the reply tagprod. I'm not sure what a SWG is so I'm betting I don't have one. I took a sample to the pool store and here are the numbers: CYA - 151 TC - 10 (his test doesn't measure any higher) FC - 10 (again, test doesn't measure higher) Tot Alkal - 187 Tot Hardness - 453 So my...

I stumbled across TFP while researching solutions for my algae problems. The amount of information here is astounding! I'm battling the same thing I had to last year - a huge algae outbreak. Last year I followed the pool store advice and it cost close to 600.00 and weeks of my time. This...