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Lol I accidentally added splashless a few weeks ago after my husband brought it home on accident. Splashless Clorox is not a pool sanitizer. If you add it, you will have soapy bubbles for a few days. You need to buy unscented 8% bleach...typically generic store brand is $3/gallon.

My CH was at 750 last summer but through rainwater, it's down to around 450. It's not a huge deal, but I keep my ph at 7.2 to keep my calcium saturation index (CSI) in check to avoid getting calcium scale on my tile. You will see by plugging in numbers to the pool calc that the easies way to...

Re: CSI From what I understand, if your csi is too high (above .6), then you will get calcium deposits, and if it's too low (below -.6) your water will try to correct itself by leaching minerals out of your plaster and can cause pitting and rough areas on the surface of your pool. The fastest...

I dunno about closing the pool for winter, but I just read all three pages hoping for a pic. :) An easy way to post a pic is to go to tinypic.com. After you upload your pic to their site, copy and paste the second line of code, then paste it in the comment box. I prefer tinypic because you don't...

After heavy rains, less sparkle and hottub is kind of green.

Water is crystal clear, no haze, vivid blue/no green. Sparklypoolitis:

Cool thanks! I put some in my skimmer for now. The pucks in the inline chlorinator have gotten wet and look slightly eroded but not 5 days worth of use. I wonder if there is a blockage at the bottom because it seems like water is entering the top. Hopefully the skimmer trick get some cya and...

Good question! I don't want to drop $40 on cya when I already have it at home...trapped in my half full bucket of chlorine pucks. ;) I do t want to use a floater because about 20 years ago my brother went to the hospital for chlorine inhalation because he was playing with the floating...

Hello, I typically use the trouble free pool method with bleach. However with splash out and heavy rains, my cya level has dropped from 70 to around 25. My pool is chewing through a ton of bleach...maybe 3 or 4 gallons a week. It was much easier to maintain proper chlorine levels when my cya...

I have a Super Target near my house that has a full grocery store inside. I think the trouble free pool method is becoming more popular because the shelves are stocked and cleared out every few days. My people! :) Walmarts great value brand is also $3/ gallon if you don't have a super target...

I buy 8% bleach at Target for $3 per bottle. :) I've yet to find a pool store that carries 12%.

[color=green]Split off of here. Please ask questions in your own topic. JasonLion[/url] Wait...bottles of chlorine are marked with the day if the year it was made? Cool I just checked my Clorox and it was made on day 175 too.

Okay so you are in the south! It's been incredibly rainy. My cya was at 70, but now it's around 30 because it's been incredibly rainy here. The good news is that you only need 2-6 ppm of chlorine and that's easy to maintain. Unfortunately 1 trichlor puck a week won't do it. Each trichlor puck...

I agree...no tabs unless you are going on vacation. I've gotten heavy rains this season and I will bump up my chlorine by adding a gallon of bleach during a heavy rainstorm. It's not exactly scientific and the true TFP mods might not like my advice. I do know that 1 gallon will raise my FC by...

I know what you mean. When I got home from a 2 1/2 week vacation, I had a little bit of algae. I had a blast scrubbing my walls and SLAMing my pool. It felt awesome to have the necessary info to raise and maintain my chlorine level without buying magical potions. Now I'm back to sparkly perfect...

I'm curious to know what your TA is. Can you post complete test results?

I started off the swim season this spring with a cya of 80. I was going to drain it partially because my CH was at around 750...but then the rains came. Now my CH is around 450 (yay) but my CYA is around 25 (boo). I was on vacation for two weeks and had a little algae when I came home, so I'm...

Thank you so much. :)

I've mastered my chemicals but my pump is still a mystery to me. I'm going on vacation and I want to make sure my main drain is open. When my spa drained last month, I started cranking valves and I'm not sure if I left it opened or closed. I tried testing it by sending my 9 year old to the...

Today I went to Target to stock up on bleach and their $2.99 store brand was cleared out. I went for the $3.49 Clorox and I love it. Their bottles are more ergonomic and they have an air flow hold built into the handle. As I slowly dispersed the Clorox and walked around the pool, no bleach...

I'd trust your own tests. My pool was brand new and at the beginning if last summer it was 450 but by the end of the swimming season it was 770. I tried to keep my ph at 7.2 because that suspends the calcium and prevents it from causing scale in your pool. We've had a ton of rain and now I'm at...

Alrighty I googled a little and I think one of the automated actuators are busted. I removed one actuator and now I can manually turn the valve. Since I don't have a good understanding of what valves do what, I randomly chose to remove the actuator that is farthest away from the pool heater. I...

Pool was off all night and now it's super cloudy from having 10 kids swimming all day and night. I'm going to try shutting off the main drain to see if I can run the pump without losing spa water.

I've shut it off and I probably won't have anyone able to come out until Tuesday or longer. My pool is still under the 1 year warranty until June 21st. It will be free to have it fixed but I'm at the mercy of their schedule. And it's pool building season so I'm low priority I'm sure. :P I hate...

If I turn off the main drain, does that include the spa?

More play by play. I agree that something maybe glitches so I turned it off for a few, filled the spa a little, reset my intellitouch panel and now the baskets are priming. Oh yay...spa return is filling the spa again. Let's hope it doesn't drain out again. I'll keep y'all posted. - - -...

We turned the pump on and for a few minutes it started to fill, but then it stopped filling and the drain opened up and drained the small amount of water out. I turned everything off but here's what the pump and valves are set to. Should I close the main drain?

All of my hottub water went to my pool. Any idea how this would happen? - - - Updated - - - Just want to add that it's not "gone" but the pool water level is duper high. It seems to be a closed circuit of water but none is staying in the hot tub.

Yes I am working on lowering my TA in an attempt to keep my ph from drifting. Now that I'm at a TA of 70, my ph stays at 7.5 a little longer before it creeps up. My target is to keep my ph at 7.2 because I have insane CH. It got up to 700 last summer, but now it's around 550 from all the rain we...

I managed my pool with a CYA level of 90. It was more expensive to keep my FC at 7ppm but I made it through the summer without getting algae. We had a ton of rain during match and April of this year so fortunately there was enough spillover to lower my CYA to 60. Anyway I totally recommend...