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Hoping there are some people who will help some of us make the decision to build an in-ground pool. I would especially like to hear from people on a limited budget in areas where the swim season is short. I can understand building a pool in Texas, Arizona, California, Florida and other warmer...

Ok per the directions the liner is supposed to be slack on the wall. Not in our case, it is really tight around the top. The bottom seam seems to sit evenly on the cove all the way around the pool but the top is drum tight. Is is supposed to be like that? Also on one part the liner doesn't...

I'm not going to drag on about what happened, but let's just say installing a pool on sand (the professionals did) does not work well in a wet and freezing climate. Thanks to everyone here, I convinced my husband that we could do this install. Plenty of you have done it so we should be able to...

I've read about two different ways to put in an overlap liner. The first way (which seems to make the most sense to me) is to hang it similar to a unibead in that it will drape and "fit" along the walls. Then with the shop vac we pull out the wrinkles and start filling. Another way I saw was...

I think I found the answer to heaving. We'll just have to tear down and re-build...doing it on our own. Why all the pool builders think we should put out pool uprights on sand, I don't know.

We are looking to move to a cartridge filter. We've been educated here that bigger is better. Could we get a filter that is simply too big for our pump to move water through? We contacted sta-rite (we have a 2speed 1hp dynamo pump) and they suggested a Plm 125 sq foot filter. I've been told...

I know better than to talk to the pool store, but I love to see what they have to say about pool levels. I told them my CYA was at 80 and I was debating whether I should lower it before I close or wait til the spring since I will be lowering the water level anyway for the winter. I told them...

Our hoa is being the biggest pain. They are taking us to court unless we change our pool to be the exact same color as our siding. They won't budge, even though I explained if we paint it and the paint peels it will look like horse doo doo, plus it will void our warranty. They still insist...

Ok, I know everyone says if your pool is balanced, you don't smell like chlorine, your skin doesn't itch and your suits don't bleach out. Here are my results after a "swim party" yesterday... Fc 7 Cc 0 Tc 7 TA 110 Ch 270 Ph 7.4 ish Borates between 30 and 50 Cya 60 I know the chlorine had been...

Just wondering what you all have for pool rules. My sister thinks I'm no fun because I don't allow any jumping off the edges or ladder, obviously no diving, and I'm pretty strict about horse play (holding each other down). I have a 6 year old and a 9 year old so I want to instill good habits in...

Just have to say thank you to everyone for their help and support. We finally have the perfect combo for clear water! It was so clear the other day that I could see perfectly across the pool when I was underwater! We've never had that! We learned that it is dirt - not algae on the bottom of...

Ok I'm not going into any history here, but husband and I have had it with trying to "fix" our poorly designed sand filter (does anyone else have this system from watson's or family leisure?) So we have a two speed dynamo 1hp pump. I figure our pool at 13,500, but it probably is more like...

After many posts about cloudy water, stuff going into the pool, we think we've figured out the problem with our sand filter. First of all the spaces on the lateral are so big anything but gravel would go through them. Well we can't really fix that but the amount of sand getting into the poll...

Put Rover jr. in to do some cleaning ("shocking process is now over, cholrine coming down and Water boatman back in the pool :evil: ) Attached is a picture of the "white chunks" that it is picking up. This has happened one other time last week. What is this stuff? I added DE to the filter...

I'm going to shock my pool for MA, but I don't want to use up all my reagent and count up to 48 drops twice a day. I know I saw it somewhere, but can I dilute the 10ml sample with distilled h20 and count drops as 1 instead of 0.5? I just need a ballpark for this cause I dont really care if...

So I know my chlorine level was 18 on 5/12, then dropped to 13.5 on 5/13 (night time, removed solar cover), and was only .5 lower on 5/14 (morning). I assumed today it was still high...but for giggles, I used my oto test when checking ph (7.5), and the test sample turned momentarily orange with...

I've read that some people put a sock over the return and found their sand filter wasn't working efficiently. How do you do that? Do you have any pictures of our setup doing this? I just want to finally verify that the silt is NOT coming from the filter and is environmental. Thank you! Michelle

How hard do you need to push the brush against the walls to clean then? I have a vinyl above ground and due to the angle I am outside the pool it is hard to push hard to brush the walls. Is lightly moving the brush over the surface of the walls sufficient? Thanks! Michelle

Test number: Fc 8 Cc 0 Tc 8 Ph 7.3 (can I believe this number with high fc?) TA 275 (up from 250) Ch - didn't test, almost out of reagent, but close to 300 I'm sure. Cya 50 (does temp affect this) I've added 1/2 gallon of muratic acid, and 5 lbs of dry acid and it seems my TA is going up! It...

My post was merged before...but let's start over here. This may all just be a lack of pop too! Fc 10.5 Cc .5 Tc 11 Ph 7.5 (was down to 7.2 after adding acid) TA 250 (down from 280 after adding acid, aerate yesterday) Ch 350 (down from 380. I added metal out yesterday because we have iron in...

After our first half season of pool ownership, we learned that the standard equipment our pool came with is not going to work. We have a 24' sand filter and when we closed, we found out why we weren't getting a "clean" pool. There were rings of calcification and chunks of it all over in the...

This is our first pool closing. We live in MN where the pool will be frozen solid with snow on top. We don't have any trees or leaf issues to worry about (we Have two trees that could shed leaves but chances of the, reaching the pool is small.) After reading about breakage of resin rails from...

I have only had a cc of .5 twice. My fc stays high if we don't use the pool and keep the cover on. We are constantly battling "silt" on the bottom of the pool. Not on the sides. Last night swimming we figured something was up cause the water felt sticky. Checked fc and cc. Fc was 5 and cc...

I'm so frustrated that the place we got the pool from 1. would not give me the pump I purchased (1.5 hp) and 2. wouldn't change it out when they came to figure out what the clicking noise was (air in the filter - still there). Now to make me even more made, it seems like I might as well not...

Ok I know if you smell gas shut it off, but in our old house we had a house water heater with a pilot light. When it kicked on, it smelled. So the guys came and hooked the gas line to the heater and now it smells like gas. Not strong, just a waft here and there. It isn't running yet, just...

Ok just got my test kit. Checking water and the first tests were going well. borate 30 Ph 7.5 Tc 5 Cya less than 20...not sure where it is going. Using pucks and have already added 3lbs. Have another pound dissolving. But my TA test was 300. Could that really be possible? Pool store had me...

So far the bbb method has been going well. The only part that is my battle is the high TA and calcium hardness. Here are my results today - from pool store they do a pretty extensive testing not just strips. Tc - 4.6 fc - 4.6 PH - 8.2 TA - 240 ch - 325 Cya - 20 Borate - 30 Tds - 400 Their...

I knew going into this that I would be facing some initial water issues. The pool will be almost full tonight but the electrician can't get here until Tuesday next week. The pool store told me I could run on an extension cord but the installer said no. The pump is 17 amps and we only have 15...

Ok, so on advice of everyone here (yes, ultimately it was my decision) I started to remove the sprinkler head and line. I tried not to disturb too much area to prevent settling later on. I ran into one HUGE problem. As soon as I found the sprinkler head and had a hole dug, ground water...

I bought some test strips the other day, to get an quick idea of where our water is at. I knew it wouldn't be pretty. Got a general idea that things we're looking like an up hill battle. Thought I'd go to the pool store to have a "free test" (I knew I had to buy metal out anyway). Official...