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OK, for the past couple of years -- in the midst of this California drought -- we've been making do with a pool that has an extremely high CYA because we didn't want to drain our pool. I forget the exact numbers (tested everything at the beginning of the season) but we were supposed to keep the...

I added some calcium chloride to raise my calcium hardness and borax to raise my pH and am running the pump on a high speed to help mix it all in. How long should I keep running the pump and when can I test to see where my numbers are? Thanks.

FC 6 CC 0.5 pH 7.1 TA 70 CH 110 CYA 120 Not sure where to begin. I did understand from reading different things here that you don't want to dump every corrective thing in at the same time. So how would you tackle this and in what order? There isn't any more algae, water looks fine again. But...

I decided to start a new thread on this in the right forum. So we have algae. We have been using pucks and a very basic chlorine and pH kit, and very occasionally we put in some loose dichlor if the chlorine is a bit low. This approach was fine the first year. This year, we've had some algae...

I don't know how to get rid of this stuff -- large amounts of fine dirt at the bottom of our in-ground pool. It didn't seem to be an issue until we changed the pump this year, to a variable speed pump. We've got a new Intelliflo pump, and we've got an old Polaris that works about the same as it...

I saw a similar thread from a couple years ago, but it didn't quite have my answer, although everyone seems to agree that the Intelliflo VS manual leaves something to be desired in the clarity department. All we want to do is set it. One simple program, to run every day. We want it to run at...

What a great site this is! Thanks for being here. :) We bought a house three years ago with an existing in-ground pool. It's an odd shape, but when we do the math, it's about 13,000 gallons. Small. We think the pool (and possibly much of the equipment?) dates from the late 1980s. It's got a...