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For the past ten years I’ve been using 12.5% bleach for sanitization, but I’ve been mostly in the dark about levels. I know you’ll hate to read it, but I’d balance everything at the start of the season using the local store’s WaterLink SpinTouch tester, then just wing it on chlorine for the rest...

I have a Waterway Defender 140 that was installed by the local pool company about a month ago. At the time, everything seemed ok. Two weekends ago I went to pull the basket from the housing and felt a prick as my finger hit the water. Figuring I had a small cut on that finger that I couldn't...

Everything in the water is dead. My chlorine levels have been sky high, but the filter just can’t clear the water fast enough. It would takes weeks at this rate. So the pool store sold me Bacquacil liquid floc. It’s been 48 hours and just caused some clumping on the surface. How do I get it out...

I normally by my bleach at BJ's. For whatever reason, the standard blue box was gone and a pink box in its place. Same price, same location, so figured it was just a new color scheme. It wasn't until I dumped 6 gallons worth into my 20k gallon pool that I noticed the fragrance and foaming. It...

I'm pretty confident my pool is losing water faster than it should, though my wife thinks I'm crazy. This past Friday before leaving to go camping for the July 4th weekend, I filled the pool because it was at the minimum point for the skimmer to work, and I didn't want to have to worry about it...

My first post here, because I'm at my wit's end with this pool. I have a 16' x 32' inground pool, 3ft at the shallow end, 8ft at the deep end. It is part of the house I bought last year, and it has been a nightmare. We started looking at the house in the June of 2012. At that point, the pool...