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I misread FC after starting to SLAM last evening and thought I had exceeded my target of 28. In reality, FC was 14. This was about 90 minutes after adding enough bleach to bring FC to 28, based on Pool Math and my test results. Today FC was holding steady at 14, CC less than .5 and the water...

Thank you, I'll go find that sticky!

I have never cleaned my filter myself. How hard/complex is it to do and where can I find instructions for dummies? Also I don't know what is meant by "vacuum to waste."

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I've been having a lot of debris in my pool this year, too. I did have to SLAM shortly after opening but even after I passed the OCLT and my CC was below 0.5, I was still seeing those clouds of dirt. I think it's just pollen. In my area everything bloomed late because it was such a cold and long...

So there was a dead mouse in the skimmer today. I assumed I should bring FC up to shock level. Did I do right? Is one day enough?

I let the last of the chlorine tablets in the dispenser get used up and the rest of the supply will be for when I go away and need to keep the pool clean. From now on I'm a BBB gal! Thank you to everyone who answered my posts.

The tail of my Polaris 360 broke off and it needed a new sweep hose barb. I've got it now and am trying to take the old one off. It's not very straightforward and I've had to remove several parts just to get to it. I'm still not really "to" it but I can see where it's attached, however I can't...

I made the rookie mistake of not testing an hour after adding the bleach. According to pool math, I needed to add enough bleach to get it to 26. It was 22 yesterday. I backwashed because the filter was sluggish, did a lot of cleaning (brushing and vacuuming) and added more bleach, again...

Update: did the pool SLAM yesterday after draining and refilling several cycles to get CYA down. I also backwashed the filter. Before SLAM, FC was 7.5, CC was ?? (testing sample didn't turn pink), ph was 7.4, CYA was just under 60. Using pool math, I put in the bleach and then left the filter...

Gotcha, thanks! I had read it before posting but it's a lot to absorb. My head was spinning just reading through the booklet that came with the test kit. :oops:

Ok, I got my testing kit yesterday and just finished testing. FC = 15 CC = 2.5 PH = 7.4 TA = 40 CH = 100 CYA = 100+ Now what does it all mean? Is it possible I over-chlorinated thinking I had algae and maybe it's not algae? If it's just dirt, we've never had this level of dirt before. I've...

Okay, thanks. I figured algae, too, and I put some bleach in the pool (two separate applications) but reading the info. here I'm guessing what I did wasn't enough. I'm freaking out a little bit because I'm working tomorrow and will have a very small window between 4 and 6 pm to deal with this...

My pool was opened last week by a company I hadn't used before. It's always dirty when it's first opened but clears up in a few days. I put the bot in to clean it and ran it several times. Once all the big stuff was gone, there was still some fine black debris in the places where the walls meet...