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What % of your total pool area do you have in solar panels. I plan on 200sf for a 288sf pool.

Thanks. That is the main floor. There is a lower level in the back under the master bedroom and living room area that is a basement and media room. Kind of an afterthought, but the slope of the lot makes it an easy build. Yes, it'll be fairly old school with some water color-altering quartz...

First of all, I'm, not a regular poster but have greatly benefitted from the group knowledge here. Now I want to give back. I live in a rented house in the town of Jarabacoa, 1800' ASL in the tropical central mountains of the Dominican Republic. We are routinely 7°F cooler than most of the...

This is an old thread I started a long time ago. I thought an update may be helpful. Originally, I complained about a terrible filtration in a 15k gallon pool that was poorly constructed, and with a sand filter about as bad as one could get. It took quite a while to get the chemicals...

It wasn't enough for .5, but more than zero, so a guestimate. More chlorine (tabs) added after the water test. I'll be getting several big jugs of liquid bleach this week. I vacuumed & backwashed the pool a while ago and must say it looks fantastic! - - - Updated - - - Hard to find DE here...

I paid close attention to your post. I went on tour for 4 days, and before leaving added a lot of chlorine (granulated) and soda ash. I was somewhat skeptical of what I'd find on returning. What I found was the cleanest pool I ever had here except for some debris the wind blew in. Zero algae...

Today's numbers, after rain last night that raised pool level about 2.5": FC: 3.5 CC: .5 TC: 4.0 CA: 50 TA: 110 CYA: 23 BTW: the pool looks great! Very clear, but I'll leave the bags in a little longer.

The local ferreteria said they could get granulated chlorine. Would this be better for a quick boost of TC and CYA? Better than household chlorine? The tabs take a long time to dissolve. How quickly would the granulated chlorine dissolve?

I'll do that this evening...

Today's numbers: FC: 5 CC: .5 TC: 5.5 CH: 50 TA: 120 CYA: 20 I've been trying to keep the chlorine up. All I have to work with are chlorine pucks and bottled household chlorine. My local ferreteria is going to get in some granulated chlorine. I've also been using a lot of algaecide and soda...

Yup, as best as I could.

I need to mention one unexpected result of these filter bags: the alter the water flow within the pool. I had algae pooling in specific spots that required constant sweeping.

(continued) NOTE: this is easy. I noticed with the SlimeBags cleaning is somewhat problematic. But we took the top ring off, turned then inside out, put it over a pole and sprayed it with water until clean. Note the tabs again. 4 cleaned, and back into the pool! The pool became MUCH...

Hola, all! It's been a month and I wanted to share my experience with DIY with my cheap-sumb!tch "micro-filter" bags. SlimeBag is a trademark, and I respect that. Recall I have an enormous amount of dead algae that just wont filter out no matter what I do. The chemicals can be within correct...

Good point. But this stuff is really fine. I mean when I've drawn a sample the water in the tube looks 100% clear, but left stagnant for a couple of hours accumulates on the bottom of the tube in a thin yellow/brown layer. Shake the tube, and the water looks clear again. We'll see. I have...

:D Rental agreements are different here. The tenant is responsible for all that requires maintenance or repairs. When you rent a place here you need to do a home inspection similar to buying a house in the states. And I have an incredible deal on this house: 3500sf, 2-car garage (for our 11...

It's not sand that keeps coming back. It's dead algae, so fine that it covers every horizontal surface when the pump has been off for a couple of hours. I can vacuum the pool and it looks great, clear water! The chemicals are fine, well within range (and I did shock the **** out of it a couple...

I'm not sure. Early on some techs came out and changed the sand. No one said anything about a broken lateral, and it looked like an enormous amount of work. The sand may be a problem. It's not filter sand, but construction sand. I understand some DE may help filtration. I had a DE filter in...

I just cannot filter fine dead algae from my pool without vacuuming to waste several times, a colossal "waste", and even then I can't get all the fine dirt/dead algae out. A fine 1 micron filter is required. My pool has 2 banks of four water returns. I checked with Slime Bags, and although I...

Just when I thought I was on top of my problem, I went out a while ago and brushed the small amount of dirt/algae toward the main drain. Then I turned the pump on to filter. To my horror each outlet-all 8 of them-were spewing brown whatever back into the pool for 7-10 seconds...then clean water...

I have a minimum of 4 outlets. 4 Bags?

That's an interesting solution for the fine algae that isn't filtered. Their website doesn't say how many are needed. Just one? One per outlet? Any idea, Ike?

First of all, this forum has been invaluable to me. I have read many threads and taken much advice. In fact, my TFT100 chem kit came a few days ago. I'm on my way to a TFT PhD...;) Background: I have owned pools and spas in FL in the past. My pools have all been easily accessed DE filters with...