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My CYA is at about 70, and tomorrow evening ,my FC will prob be down to 5, maybe even a little less. So yeah, with the cover I am thinking 4 gallons should be about right. My PH is pretty stable, even though my TA is high, about 150. In the past 2 weeks it's gone from 7.4 to 7.5, so I'm...

I leave for 12 days later this week, and I'm wondering how exactly to prepare the pool for this. I've currrently got the pool balanced so I just add 1 full bottle of bleach every 2-3 days, usually 3. So can I just so OK, put in 4 bottles of bleach, throw the solar cover on, and be good...

Looks like the addition of the CYA got me to a manageable level. Probably also helped that I replaced my leaking pump, so I wasn't constantly leaking water and CYA. I haven't re-measured my CYA yet, but I only lost about 3 FC in 24 hours. Looks like I just need to run high CYA's. I way...

So I still don't understand why the new pump blew less sand out, but I figured it out. It wasn't the laterals at all, it was the stand pipe. When I took the multi-port off this morning to empty the filter I noticed there was sand inside it, up where the standpipe ends. But there was no sand in...

I'm in Oklahoma City, and this week has been hot (high 90's) and humid. And my pool gets pretty direct sunlight from fairly early morning until about 5:30-6, when it starts to get shade, but isn't totally shaded until after 8PM So not the best conditions for keeping chlorine in the pool. But...

OK, so now things get more strange. Got the replacement pump today for the one I had on there with the leaking shaft seal. Installed it and turned it on to check everything out. Was happy with the install, so walked over to the pool to check the sand flow, and there was none. Before, there was a...

Set it to backwash for about 5 mins, then rinse for 2 mins last night. Put it back to filter and turned on pump , and a huge burst of sand pumped into the pool again. So I can only assume it is something with the laterals. Although I still don't understand why I still get a small amount of sand...

SO opened my pool 2 weeks ago, and it has just been a constant battle the whole time. First some of the air mattresses we keep the cover off the water with deflated, and we ended up with puddles and leaves on it, and mixing into the pool water (my fault, could have stayed more on top of it). SO...

tim5055, hopefully you are right, because I ended up with a patch over a patch over a patch. And probably some more. The package was only $2, so I used 4 out of the 5 patches it came with to make an overlapping patchwork of patches.

So the peel and stick appears to have worked. Those are so much easier to use than the glue kind. I have no idea how they hold up, but hopefully it's good enough. So I filled the pool back up and checked the levels. FC and CC, were right at about 2, but CYA was a little low at 30, and total ALk...

So actually, after I turned off the pump, nearly everything settled to the bottom. I was able to hook the vacuum directly to the pump and set the filter to waste to get most of the stuff out, and then drain the pool down about half way. It took me almost an hour of crawling around, but I...

Hello, we purchased our house last winter and with it the 24' above ground pool. It was closed for the winter when we moved in, and the previous owner took good care of it (we saw it opened when we first looked). However I stupidly uncovered it 2 weeks ago and just let it sit before I did...