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Thanks. That's pretty much what I thought. Hope to provide some before and after shots once everything is in order.

Hi all, I wanted to get advice on which order to do things to get my pool going this year. I've opened/closed in the past by myself with great success thanks to TFP. Anyway, over the winter I noticed that my safety mesh cover was sagging a lot and discovered that my water level had gone down big...

A few of my mistakes started since last year. Bought the house with 0 pool knowledge and closed the pool too late. My wife and I closed in early Sept. and thought "Let's use the pool as much as we can before it gets cold." What a mistake! Before we knew it, it was Oct. and it was just constant...

I have to agree with the OP. TFPC has proven to be boring but NOT that I am complaining!! This is my first time owning, opening, and maintaining a pool and started with TFPC off the bat. It's gotten to the point where I've gotten the feel for the pool and know how many PPM FC is consumed day...

I say take over the maintenance yourself. If you DIY, you will save money. I'm a newbie pool owner and opened our pool for the first time in June with zero prior experience. I can honestly say after studying the information on this site and applying the TFPC methodology, pool maintenance has...

We've had stretches of high 80's - 90's with brutal humidity and some consecutive days of some powerful storms. Our water temps in the pool have always been 86-90 degrees.

Thanks Jason. I will tell my wife verbatim what you said. :D

So I am discussing with my wife the idea of switching to a SWG but she is apprehensive that salt water is bad for a vinyl liner. After reading some pool school articles on pool liner materials and the thread about SWG I see no mention of problems with salt water pools and vinyl liners. Only...

I'm a new pool owner and have successfully opened my pool for the first time this year using the vast amounts of knowledge and helpful people from this site and my mutt of a pool testing kit: Admittedly, I had purchased the HTH kit from Walmart before understanding the importance of the FAS/DPD...

Ok, I'm trying to comprehend here. You got the salt down to 29,000 at the end of last year's pool season. But today, you got a reading of 44,000? Sounds to me like the pool got flooded again with ocean water? Like I said, I'm no expert, but from what I've read here on TFP, your salt level is...

I'm no expert, but when was that salt measurement taken? Is that measurement in ppm? If that was recent, I don't think your SWG will ever work with salt level that high. I think the experts here would tell you to turn your SWG OFF to prevent damage to the cell. Also, if there was no color...

Soley based on what you've written, it sounds like you have no CYA (chlorine stabilizer) in the pool, are using Cal-Hypo to shock the pool, and you may have excessively hard water. The use of Cal-Hypo in combination with excessively hard water may be what's causing the cloudiness (experts...

From what I've learned here, it can take up to a week for CYA to register on a test and that maybe why you can't measure it yet. As the experts here will tell you, your CC's are high and you will probably need to S.L.A.M. But I think you need to get a handle on CYA level first. Also, what are...

I've been told to use the 8.25% for pool calcs.

I'm a TFPC novice and I can say with confidence the methods here DO work. My pool was green (but not a swamp) when I opened (for the first time ever) in May. It took me 5 days to clear the pool and now my little guy helps me aerate: Since opening all I've had to do is add bleach to the pool...

The best I can find in my area is at Walmart. 121 oz. of their 8.25% Great Value brand goes for $2.98. Wish I had access to a Menards!

I don't have much to add other than to say I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. I tested around 200 ppm CYA and the general consensus here is even that measurement can't be reliably trusted given the high amount. I SLAM'ed the pool according to my CYA level and I used A LOT of bleach in...

I was using poolcalculator. I guess I'll use PoolMath from on. Thanks for clearing that up. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

With my numbers inputted into Pool Calc. Shock level is 41? I measured 45 ppm tonight. Is shock level different from SLAM level, I thought they were the same? Backwards as in, I should have emptied first? As others have stated, I should have emptied first but I don't think I have time to do that...

Thanks for your advice. I don't know if I can pull off a water replacement before Father's Day. I wonder how difficult it will be to get the levels back after a water replacement. I think Pool calc. recommended I replace 80% of my water to get in range. I'd have to do that in a step-wise...

Yeah hindsight is 20/20. Oh well. I have the cya test from TFT. I had to dilute with tap to get a good reading. I had my wife do the test too and she got very close to the 100 line and I did too. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

I'll try to keep this concise as I can. CYA: 200 ppm (I know, I know. Previous owner was a Leslie devotee and regular dichlor/triclor puck user) FC: 45 ppm CC: 0 This is my first time opening the pool and never have owned a pool prior to Sept 2013. I have been reading TFP obsessively though...

That's a good idea. I might as well take advantage of free water. I pulled the trigger on the FAS/DPD test and more CYA reagent from TFP. Your results for CH are very interesting to me....remarkably similar to what I got. I measured 250 with my own test for CH, while Leslie measured 170...

Thanks for shedding some light on the CYA testing and for confirming my suspicions about CH and phosphates.

Yes, I initiated the SLAM with my initial CYA level reading. I don't have my own FAS-DPD test yet, but my TC AND FC were essentially the same (according to Leslie) which I thikn is a step in the right direction. - - - Updated - - - Thanks for the tip and the link. I'm going to order some...

Thanks for the reply guys. You guys are right, I may have jumped the gun on saying I finished SLAM'ing. Admittedly, I am a new pool owner. I guess I thought I was at least close to the finish line after I got results back from Leslie. Forecast calls for a week of heavy rain, so now I just...

Hi all, opened my pool on the 7th and started to apply the TFP methodology to my pool. Pool was only slightly green/clear so I SLAM'ed it and added Borax to bring up the pH. I tested using a newly bought cheapo HTH 6 way test (All I have as of now, hopefully will get a TFT test in the future)...

Thanks jblizzle for the recommendations! I definitely want one of those kits. I'll have to put in a purchase order to the wife and see if it gets approved. =) Right now I have a cheapo HTH 6-way I picked up at Walmart. Hopefully that'll lead me in the right direction before I get a TFT kit. I...