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Hello All~~ I'm asking for a little extra help, above and beyond the usual..... My laptop isn't getting along with the Pool Calculator--I'm getting some very unrealistic numbers as results for what chems to add, so please can someone do this for me? Here's my info: 23,600 gallon pool...

Does anyone have ten minutes to use their Pool Calculator for me today? My laptop is being weird, and I cannot get the Pool Calculator to work for me. DH is unreachable, and if I go clearing caches and fiddling with my computer, he will be upset with me. I wish to lower my TA. Here are my...

Hello all, I need your ideas.... DH came home late last night (after huge storms and tons of rain) to find pool pump not running. I am stuck in NYC until Monday. He has no working computer with him, so I am writing this.... We know from online monitoring that the pump was happily running...

Hello all, DH discovered something on his own recently; I wanted to share it: We have many trees in our yard and neighborhood. We keep our pool running year round, but we do cover it for fall and winter. Before we covered the pool this month, we started with an immaculate pool, skimmers, and...

Hi Everybody~~ DH just told me that our 12% liquid chlorine will go bad--that it has a finite shelf life. We keep 3 or 4 jugs of this around, stored outside, just in case of a power failure or whatever. Now he tells me that it is not like Clorox. It has a shorter life. He says that bleach...

Hello all~~ I am posting this in the Under Construction forum because I wish to attract the opinion of builder/contractor folk as well as those members who have recently gone through a pool build. Earlier this year we had a complete renovation done on our inground concrete pool. All payments...

Hello All~~ Our pool has been happy and balanced so far this summer. This evening I got an unexpected, surprising, and significant drop in FC test. The question is: Can the addition of salt throw off a FAS-DPD chlorine test? Here's the story: Our Aquacheck salt strips had been saying we...

Any folks in the business?..... Can you please arrange in cost order the following pebble surfaces on the market now? Pebble Tec, Pebble Fina, StoneScapes, QuartzScapes, and Beadcrete, plus the myriad WetEdge products... I thought that I and DH were all set with our choice of PebbleSheen for...

Does anyone here have any experience with having a Poolsmith pH Control System (poolsmith dot com in Arizona) or any other brand of CO2 tank control of pH? We are seriously considering adding a CO2 system when we renovate our pool this year. I searched around these boards, and I could find...

Hello all~ I would appreciate advice on coping and deck/surround materials that will easily tolerate the splash-out from my salt water pool. Also, please advise which materials to avoid. We are planning a pool renovation and don't want to install a material that will erode easily. Maybe...

Hello all~~ I live in the Triangle area of North Carolina: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. If I decide I can afford to have my ancient cement in-ground pool resurfaced, and I decide I want a name-brand surface, such as Wet-Edge or PebbleTec or Brand #3 or #4 (that I don't yet know about), who...

Hello everyone~~ The new SWG has settled in and leveled off, from a very high level of 25 a few weeks ago to keeping us at an FC level of 5 or 5.5, and we are in the later stages of lowering the TA. Things are humming along nicely, thanks to everyone at TFP. I've been doing twice-daily...

Hello all~~ This is a cross post. I've had a thread running in Chemistry 201 regarding our addition of an SWG, but now we are facing a high FC, and I mostly wanted to rant, I confess, so I am posting the body of my recent post to the other thread. >>>Here it is, a day later (Friday June...

:-D Beginning tomorrow, Saturday June 6th, we will be readying our pool for our addition of an AutoPilot SWG on Tuesday, June 9th. My husband is flying into town on the latest flight there is tonight, and it is delayed, hence my appeal to you for opinions. I have done the local shopping...

Hello All~ First of all thank you to everyone here at TFP. I have been lurking/learning for several months; so far, 1000 questions have been answered with Pool School and the boards. This is my first post! We bought our old 1952 house (Chapel Hill, NC) in August of 08. Back then I was able...