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Thanks for the info about the cream layer. I had wondered about that because in my earlier days, I poured concrete for a living. As to communication with “the office”, I do, all I get is excuses. Thanks again

I forgot to ak some questions of anyone who might know. I have some black streaks in the plaster. I pointed those out, one of the plastet “crew” made brooming motions. I suppose hes trying to lay that onto me which is not the case. I broomed twice a day religiously. What causes the black...

Thanks for the replies. I wish I could say I was just being picky, doesnt sound as thats the case. To answer a question, no, they werent the low bid. Just the opposite, they were the high bid, from a large nation wide installer who has been around here for years.. I will happily more for a good...

We are had a replaster done and I have some questions. How smooth should it be? Should all of the transitions around the steps, the corners, the tile be nice and smooth? Our new plaster has lots of trowel marks, ridges and rough spots. The step edges look like a wash board on one end, on the...

An observation, for what it's worth. This spring when I slammed my pool, just before the slam was complete, when I walked out the back door of the house, I could smell the chlorine. When the slam was complete, no more smell.

Welcome neighbor, you're in the right place. If you choose, these folks here can get you fixed up, they fixed mine! This system DOES work, but, it takes some "unlearning" of what many of us learned as the way to take care of a pool. My pool currently takes a daily test of chlorine and ph...

Thanks Jason............when I started TFP my wife didn't understand, it was always......"you're buying MORE bleach?" Now she says, "the pool sure looks nice, I'm going to the store, do you need more bleach?".........LOL

I just did my weekly testing numbers are FC 7.5 CC 0 Ph 7.8 TA 140 CH 180 CYA 50 I just added 20 oz. MA (by the way, if you buy Kleenstrip Muriatic Acid, the label doesn't say the strength, on their website in the MSDS is says <25) to bring down the Ph a bit and that will in turn reduce the TA...

Yes, we have a solar cover. No, we're not gone every weekend, probably 2 a month. SLAM level and cover, sounds good. Thanks much!

We will often be gone on weekends, if I know how much chlorine to add daily, do I just multiply that by how many days we'll be gone, and add that before we leave?

I started this year with a horrible pool opening............it was the worst it's ever been, just nasty. I had thrown about 30 lbs. of granulated chlorine at it with little results. Then I found TFP, and read, and read, and read. And I found that lots of things I was reading about was what I had...

So, I stopped at my local pool store today........(hold on, don't panic) to see if they had any CYA reagent for my kit. One of the people there asked me what I needed, I told him, he immediately said....."Hmmmm, let me check". (We were standing right in front of all of their test chemicals) He...

For the last 2 days I've been reading, and reading here on TFP. (Of course, it sounds like I've been doing it all wrong) First thing, (as I learned here) my CYA was out the roof, as I sit here the pool is refilling after a (ready for this) 70% dump. (ouch) The more I read, the more I said...