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It's cold here in New York, pool is closed for the Winter. We are on well water and have been renting a water softening system for many years. The never-ending monthly payments have caused me to look at buying a new unit and installing myself. First thing I need to calculate is the hardness of...

I think it is fair to say a good number of people on this forum, me included, have taken on an 'obsessed' attitude towards pool maintenance. :D I'm sure we've all had that situation where at a social gathering someone casually something about a swimming pool, and then before you know it you've...

I'm in New York state, inground pool was winterized last Fall and is still covered. Will probably open in June. The water level has risen all the way to the pool deck. Just this past week we hydroseeded (grass) a large portion of our property in an attempt to expand our lawn. We only have one...

Just finished a full vinyl in-ground pool remodel. 16' x 32' rectangular with 9' deep end. Just got the in-pool LED lights hooked up and first thing I noticed when I turned them on tonight was how irregular the surface of the liner is on the bottom and sides of the pool. It is bumpy everywhere...

This is my second season using the Taylor TF-100 kit + K-1000, so I'm pretty comfortable using it. The start of this season I got a full refill of everything, so all regents are brand new. I also had a pool store test the water, and I have two different brands of test strips that are also brand...

We just had our pool remodel finished last week. New vinyl liner and had water trucked in. Tested using my kit at home the other day and had CYA = 0. Pool stored tested it as well and said CYA= 2ppm. So I went to Wally World and bought Stabalizer/Conditioner, brand HTH. Says it is 96% CYA. I...

We are remodeling a 20 year old vinyl pool. We are trying to achieve this kind of water color. Our pool is in direct sunlight, hardly any shade around it. Out of the liner choices our pool builder has supplied us, we think this is the only one that may be close: To my eyes it has a...

We have a pool that is a 16' x 32' inground with vinyl liner. The pool was installed about 25 years ago, the liner was replaced at least 10 years ago probably before then. Vertical walls are poured concrete, then the slanted walls and floor is I would guess compacted sand. Here is what we are...

I've been through 2 cycles of this over the past month. I have metal stains on my vinyl liner, very uniform over the entire surface. I treat with Polyquat60. I dump 1 lb of Ascorbic Acid into the pool, the stains are lifted. I put a LOT of metal sequestration into the pool. I put a CuLator in...

I want to know if it is OK to add Polyquat60 AFTER I started the ascorbic Acid treatment process? I have a bottle of Poly60, I added 1 lb of AA a few hours ago and 64 oz of sequestrant. All stains are lifted and water is looking blue, slightly hazy. PH is at 7 and chlorine is at 0.

One of my underground lines has a pinhole size leak, above ground, a few inches from where the hose comes out of the ground before it goes into the pump intake. Temporarily wrapped it with Gorilla tape and it is holding pretty good. But how should I permanently fix the leak? Here is an image of...

Started draining the water below the skimmer and noticed the liner and stairs all around the pool below the water level all tinted a yellowish-orange color. Crushed up some Vitamin C tablets in a sock and wiped the stains and they came away instantly, revealing a pretty big contrast with the...

I'll be gone for a week with nobody to look after things. Here are my current numbers... FC 12 CC 0 pH 7.6 TA 110 CYA 90 I cannot do a large scale drain and refill to get my CYA down, I plan on doing that at the beginning of next season. So I just need to work with what I've got. I do...

This is the second time in a few weeks that this has happened. Woke up this morning and noticed the pool water level went down at least 1 inch overnight. This was significant since the water level was already very low, at the minimum level for the skimmer to properly function. I also have a...

I forgot to bring the kit inside one night and it got about 4 hours of full sun on a 90+ degree day before I noticed it was still sitting on my deck railing. Big deal, think it's a problem as long as I don't let it happen again?

I see a lot of posts saying CYA test over 100 ppm is not accurate. But what about after diluting pool water with well water that is 0 ppm CYA and then testing and double the result. Is that an accurate method? My kit has been testing right at 100, so I diluted with well water and I get the...

Tested last night and here is what I had... FC - 6.5 CC - 0.5 pH - 7.8 TA - 120 CH - 120 CYA - 110 I am losing 1 - 1.5 ppm FC overnight. I want to keep FC at 7 - 7.5 while I work on getting my CYA down, but can only do small water replacements with well water so it will take a long time. Looks...

I bought a box of Borax and a gallon of muriatic acid today just in case I will need them this Summer. If unopened, will they do me any good next year? Or if opened and partially used?

I am dealing with a high CYA this Summer, hovering around 100 - 110. Large replacement of water is not practical because of a low producing well and expense of trucking in water. My questions is, what happens with the CYA level over the Winter when the pool is covered? Would the CYA level be...

I saw a calculator here at some point where you could plug in what you paid for a bottle of bleach, size, %, etc... and it would do a cost analysis. Anyone have the link to that? I can't find it.

I've been lurking here for about a month and decided to try the BBB method, and joined this forum. Pool is perfectly clear right now and temp of 82 degrees. I have not started putting liquid bleach into the pool. I have been using granulated 1 lb bags of shock and 3" pucks in a floating duck...