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Hello Everyone, I just moved into a house with a green and cloudy pool and the pool uses a Baker Hydropak skimmer with the filter under the basket. It doesn't seem very efficient. When I remove the filter, the dirty water contained therein falls back into the skimmer and some goes out into...

Hello Again, I have been maintaining my new to me pool for a month or two now and I am very satisfied and comfortable with the pool thanks to the knowledge I have gained from TFP forum and I thank you all for that knowledge. But I digress. I find that I only use the R-0870 DPD powder and the...

Hello Everyone, Five days ago I added about 35 lbs of Boraxo and 2.1 gallons of acid to my pool. I ran the pump for 48 hrs. My readings are as follows: ph 7.8 fc 3 ta 100 ch 330 cya 30 borate 30 - 40 difficult for me to see the colors I have been adding a quart of acid...

I have a few brown stains in my pool. They look like comets or something. They are 4 to 6 inches across and taper down to nothing and are about a foot long. A friend looked at them and said that he had similar stains and he hired a man who put pvc pipe into the pool over the stains and then...

I recently switched my pool pump from 24-7 to 12 hours a day. When the pump shuts off, my skimmer basket floats out of its socket and when the pump comes on, the basket doesn't sink back into place, but sits askew and the debris bypasses the basket. Like a real idiot, I put a rock in the...

Hello All, I was browsing the forum and clicked a link which took me to another pool forum, where I found "One hundred reasons for a cloudy pool" and one of the reasons was: 13.Swimming pool water has not been replaced in 5 years or more. Should pool water be replaced every five years?

Hello Everyone, My new test kit arrived today and my results are below. It's been raining alot here in central Florida and I haven't bnrushed or vacuumed today. My water is cloudy and has been for ten days. Before that it was a nasty green with lots of bugs and debris. I brush and vacuum...

Hello Everyone, I am a newbie and wanted to say hey. I have spent countless hours reading on this forum and I absolutely love it. I have an in ground pool of around 15k gallons. It is kidney shaped and I can't get an exact number. The pool was very nasty when I started. It had millions...