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thanks. it wasnt sealed before. im pretty sure when my cover ripped 2 years ago and a ton of leaves made it to the bottom, and i just turned it on thinking id just clean the pump basket it got pretty plugged. ive swam down and cleared a bunch of debris from the pipe but i can feel stones even...

Hello all, hope all is well and all that! I have a gunite pool that was constructed in the late 1950s. It used to be an indoor pool as well (prior to my owning the house). Over the years ive learned a lot about proper pool care (meaning i wasnt as diligent as I am now about keeping things...

Yeah, it was strange. It felt like an air leak somewhere in the system but I couldnt pinpoint it... FWIW its a sand filter, and the (separate pump) only stopped prime when set to filter or recirculate... /shrug... onto the next problem! thx again!

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Thanks for the ideas. I actually ended up taking the filter completely apart and thoroghly cleaning the sand. I put it all back together and its working as expected. Thanks again!

Hey all, long time no post! Going through the motions of opening the pool this year. Everything went well until i tried turning the filter to actually filter. On backwash, waste, or the lever in the open position the pump pulls water very well... when I switch it over to filter or recirculate...

So I was in the pool all weekend... Literally over 12 hours in 3 days! :) Water felt great, looked great, and the company had a blast as well. Friday night the water was cold, and still a little dirty. As I was having friends over I really wanted it to sparkle, so I took some "drastic...

There was a lot of risk involved with emptying mine, I am about 2 miles from Lake Ontario to my north, and a very active underground spring to the south (basically in my backyard.) Water table is always extremely high, and being a novice, everything I had read scared the Crud out of me! This has...

And today I can see the bottom through the entire pool. I was very diligent in my measurements each reading keeping it at shock levels at all times. I am out of the fancy accurate FC/CC reagents(at least the drops) so I will be going by some guesswork from here on out but all in all, minus some...

When you say Chlor, is that total chlorine, meaning FC + CC? If so then then based on your #s your CC would be 1. So based on that, yes, you would still want to be shocking your pool as the FC is being consumed by killing stuff. However I don't think you would need to buy a shock product, you...

You say the CYA is 0-30. That is a pretty big range given the process you are going through. Having a good idea of there these are allow you to shock effectively. You want your ph to be 7.5 -7.8 so lower that to start. Get an accurate CYA to ensure you are dosing the correct amount of cl, then...

Another update -- still foamy on top, not sure what thats all about but it seems to slowly be going away. Got home last night and I could completely see the bottom in the shallow end, and now can see the 3rd step on the deep end ladder... Friends ask why I didn't just drain and it and start...

There's a lot of variance, but most the robots can run on a timer, and are self enclosed. Meaning they typically have a filter bag installed and collect the dirt and what-not, and then you pull the filter bag out, clean it off, and then re-insert.

Mike -- A remote is like having a remote controlled car, for your pool, that cleans! Definitely not neccessary, but helps to force the bot to go to specific areas, plus it can be a little fun too :)

I inherited one with my pool, and so far just getting my pool ready it has been invaluable. It's an older aquabot turbo t-jet II, and for the shallow end, it's spotless, but it gets real confused coming back from the deep-end. If/when it dies I will invest in another, preferably the remote...

In theory it might help, but it could also make matters worse while you are shocking. Flocc is typically used in conjunction with turning the pump off, stopping the movement of the water, cl, etc, while stopping filtering as well. While sometimes it can be used as a filter agent, I wouldn't...

Alas some more progress. I woke up to more foam on the top today, but when I was scooping it out I decided to touch the bottom of the shallow end with the pole...and low and behold, I could still see it! For an instant gratification guy, this has been painful... I cant imagine how slow this...

In order to establish the right Cl level you need to first determine the CYA level. If your tester does not check this, then your local pool store can probably get this test close for free. I would hold off on the extra bleach until you know where the CYA is just so you know you arent tossing...

Yeah I have been shocking for a full week solid now. Seems to be getting better, but this morning I noticed a lot of foam on the surface. Only details I have on the pool is it was installed around the time the house was built, and the house was built in the late 40s. Originally it was all...

Well the weather was gorgeous this weekend, so I did some extra cleaning around the pool, and kept all the FC levels up and roaring etc. The one test I had not done yet as it did not appear to be one of the "gotchas" until you got going was CH. I ran it, and this is a gunite pool, and the CH...

Oops, I wrote 8, then edited some spelling and it disappeared ha! so to reiterate -- the lowest FC since I started testing was 8 :) Last full test I ran was last night: FC - 8 CYA - 25ish PH - 7.2 CC - 2 TA - 120 I added more chlorine after backwashing the filter about 15 mins after this...

The lowest I have seen the FC since I started testing a few times a day is , which is a little low but not terrible given my CYA of about 25. I do the more accurate tests at night when I get home. I havent bothered with the overnight test yet since its nowhere near clear.

Re: going from green to clear - FC does not seem to be dropp When you backwashed, was the water exiting discolored or clear? It may just be a matter of time. I have read a lot about the Cl not being used much at all, and then all of a sudden it kicks in and starts burning up! If you run the...

Yes pump is on 24/7. I only have a vague idea where the inlets are in this pool. It was built and installed in the 50sa, and actually used to be fully enclosed in the house! When I first turn the pump on I can see a few air bubbles where the inlets are. I can also see the water circulating...

Re: going from green to clear - FC does not seem to be dropp When was the last time you backwashed the filter?

I thought I should post a few pics of the progress, and thank you all so far for the help! The initial swamp After tossing in some bleach not knowing what I was doing After some more low octane bleach, before I got my test kit 2 Days after getting my tf-100, raising the cya to 25ish, and...

I researched someone opening my pool for a few weeks before taking the plunge myself. The reason behind it was cost: 150/hr. 2 hour minimum in almost all cases, plus the cost of the chemicals you will need to buy yourself. Some extra detail from my experience: My pool is extra special, over 2...

Getting there. Given my work schedule it has been a little tough to maintain the high FC levels for shocking. I did not notice much a difference this morning when I got up in the color/clearness. Still can only see down about 1-2 feet max. This morning I only had time for the quick OTO test and...

Yeah I measured it out. I am guaging my pool to be about 11k Gallons, so based on the calc. the amounts I added would have been a bit low. I have read everything about CYA being the silent killer :) Now that I tested it and saw it was still visible (well below 20 but fading as the tube filled...

Small update -- Ordered the tft-100. While waiting for it to arrive I thew money at liquid chlorine, and it started to look a little better, aside from days where i would try cleanding some sludge of the bottom, at which the ploom of brown overtook the pool. First readings were low ph (6.8)...