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Up until a few days ago, everything was going well. 3 days ago my tests were as follows: FC 3.0 CC .5 PH 7.5 TA (wasn’t tested but last week was 85) CYA 45-50 ish Salt 2800-3000 then yesterday when I opened the pool, it was hazy/cloudy and test results were FC: 0 PH 7.2 TA 120 CYA 35 Salt...

Hi, My husband opened up our pool approx 3 weeks. At that time, I just assumed he only turned the pump on, as it has still been cold here. So we hadnt turned on the heat yet. I didnt realize our aquapure system was going at 50% (SWG). Yesterday we decided to turn the heat on and get things...

Our heater in our pool died this year and we need to replace it. Local Pool company suggested a Raypak 266 but then someone mentioned thought that may not be large enough. Any suggestions? We want a reliable heater that works and doesn’t take forever to heat up our pool. We open to any brand...

Hi there, New liner, new water. Working on balancing chemicals. All is good but TA still quite high. Here’s my results so far ( this has included added a little of MURIATIC acid each day to bring down pH to 7.0-7.2 and then aerating back up. Little / slow decrease in TA FC 6.5 CC 0 CYA 80...

Hello, New pool liner, new water, still trying to balance chemicals. One week in and here’s our readings CYA 25 FC 6 CC 0 TA 230 ! PH 7.5 CH 200 Salt 3300 I know I need to raise the CYA and lower the TA, but which should I do first or can I add both CYA and MURIATIC acid at the same time...

We have iron in our pool water ( from filling with well water). We’re in the process of filtering this out using the polyfil filter method, which seems to be working well so far. Some one suggested I may want to add sequestrant as added insurance when this filtering process is complete. I’m all...

Hi , We had a new liner placed and needed to refill our pool with our community well water. When the pool was full, the water looked greenish/ Brown. We knew we had iron in our water, so before doing any chemical balancing, we added Polyfill in nylon socks to our skimmers, and seriously within 2...

Hi there, We just replaced our liner and I’m in the process of balancing our new pool water. my Initial results: Cya: 0 FC:0 TA: 240 PH:8 CH: 275 We have well water and spent the first few days filtering out the iron color in our pool using Polyfill. Looks clear now ( was rust when we...

Hi, we are in the process in putting in a new liner and are now filling our pool with water using “community” well water. The liner company said we should probably treat our water for metals prior to adjusting any pool chemicals. I’m a little confused. We’ve had our pool for 7-8 seasons and...

Hello, We need your advice. We put our inground swg pool in in 2012. Two summers ago we had some problems with algae and thought we had yellow mustard algae. We had our pool at shock levels for a lengthy time that season and after a lot of help from your forum fixed the problem. Since that time...

Hi there, we just opened up our pool and I want check our chemical readings but the pool temp is still only 60 degrees. Do I need to wait until the pool is warmer to test or can I test now? It looks clean and clear but want to make sure we keep it that way. ( I'm wondering about chlorine levels...

Hello, We have a local pool company scheduled to close our pool next Monday. Although we wouldnt have minded keeping it open a bit longer for the season, we had limited options from this company. This weekend is going be 80+ degrees and we were planning to have friends over on Sunday for one...

About a week ago our SWG was reading a number way out of whack: 12700 ppm. We assumed it was a faulty sensor. However when we went to investigate this further it was discovered that someone had intentionally cut our pool wires (another story for another forum)on our sensor. My husband is quite...

Hello: Just took off our pool cover yesterday to look at the pool. We aren't officially "opening the pool" until the end of this month. I decided to just check the chemicals just for kicks to see where everything was at: FC 6.0 CC 0 TA 80 PH 7.5 CYA 0 ( less than 20 when using TFT kit). Pool...

We have been in the process of SLAMing our pool since Sunday. Our test values were as follows just prior to SLAMing: FC 3.5 CC .5 TA 120 Ph 7.2 CH 325 CYA 50. Our SLAM level of Chlorine is 20 and we've been able to maintain or be slightly above this well. SLAMing process has been going ok. We...

Hi there, We're in the process of SLAMing our pool, but need to leave the it unattended during the day. Is it ok to have our automatic pool cover on during the day? Will this affect this process? We're trying to keep the pool open to air out as much as we can when we're home.

Hello, I know you need to turn your SWG off when you plan to do the OCLT, but can you turn the SWG back on during the days while slamming/shocking ( to help keep chlorine up during daytime hours)?

Hi there, We followed the protocol and slammed our pool last month for algae. Pool looked great, (aside from a black residue which we wont able to identify.But this eventually went away too). (Also when we turned our SWG back on, it seemed to not ready currently saying our salt level was much...

hello, When you drain your pool (to waste) is it ok to drain water out to levels below your skimmers? Im assuming the pump obviously needs to be on to do this. Do I need to turn my heater and SWG off while do so? We've never done this before. Basically just wondering the process/protocol in...

Hello, we've just completed slamming our pool for the last week for an algae bloom. During this process we had had our SWG turned off ( so we could accurately check our OCLT). We left the SWG off during the day time as well while we added liquid chlorine. Now since the chlorine level are...

Hello, We've had our inground pool for three years now and havent ever had any problems with it until this year. It first started out after the 4th of July where we noticed our pool started to get a little cloudy and we kept losing our chlorine levels. We have 20x44 inground pool with a SWG. We...