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Same thing is happening to my pool, only mine is under a solid open air cover. I added about 2 cups of bleach (per pool calculator) 2 oz of algaecide, and 6 oz of muriatic acid. About how long does it take for all that to mix so I can get a pretty good test again? …. moved from another's thread...

I picked up a vacuum head, a pole and a pool hose. I unscrewed the intake cover in the pool and found that when the pump is turned on, it suctions the hose very nicely, eliminating the project of modifying a plunger to suction to the wall over the intake cover. It works GREAT except I am...

I am thinking it would be wise to order a bigger filter pump for my little pool. What the pool came with is a 530 gph model. It just seems like it's not moving anything. I am debating between getting the 1500 or the 2500. 1. I understand there are adapters that I must buy to convert the existing...

Alrightee. In wanting to add borates to my picture, I added a box of dissolved-in-pool-water borax (76 oz) and muriatic acid (about 60 oz) to my little pool last night. To help stir it up I went around the edge of the pool scooping up gallons of water and throwing it back in, probably a dozen...

My concern is two-fold. 1. I bought a little test kit that came with 2 bottles to test ph and chlorine. The acrylic vials have numbers next to them and that typical color bar and I'm to add 5 drops of the appropriate reagent to each side. The ph side makes sense, but the chlorine side has a...

I was in the "fill the pool with an inch of water to see if it's level" stage when I noticed water coming out from the bottom of my new Intex. Great. My first attempt with an Intex and I have a leak after 1". I am going to try to locate the hole (via sunlight, per above) and a dye test, though I...