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I bought a house this past winter and it has an in-ground pool. The former owners used bromine. I have been using chlorine, as guided by the advice on these forums. And the pool water looks and tests fine. Because we are away from the house for 5 days every week, I have had some challenges...

I need some advice about how to maintain Cl levels all week long when we are only at the house where the pool is from Fri night till Sunday night. For the first 3 weeks, I ran the pump and filters and Cl feeder (Hayward) with Tri-Chlor 24/7. I am still working out how many Cl tabs to put in...

This past winter, we bought a vacation home with a pool. It's about 70 miles from our permanent residence. Most weeks, we'll only be at the vacation house weekends (from Friday evening till Sunday evening). So far, I have not been able to find a pool support person who can do mid-week...

I recently bought a house with a 20,000 gal in-ground pool. It's time to open it for the season, and I have never done that before. A local pool service company took off the cover, vacuumed part of the bottom (pretty gross), threw in 4 bags of chlorine-based shock and left. Two days later I...