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thanks so much! will do as instructed.... you guys are the best!

last night, actually... added about 3 inches of city water. whoo hoo! will give that a try. can't seem to find it at any of my local pool stores tho. :(

ok, just back from the pool store. they used a strip test, and she said there was 0 copper, and yes, there was some iron, she showed me so fast, i didn't really get a chance to see what the reading was, but it was the 2nd color up as far a recognizing the iron in the water. not really sure if...

absolutely. did the AA treatment, then the drain. thank you, i will take a sample down to the pool store.

hey all. last year, i fought with iron stains coming and going, because my husband wasn't willing to drain and refill the pool. so. this year upon opening, i added the ascorbic acid, got the stain lifted, and drained the pool until there was but 5 inches of water left in the bottom. we...

yup! vacuuming once a day, scrubbing a couple times a week, unless i get sick (which is what lead to this prediciment) ;) I will go by what the water looks like, instead of relying on that part of the test. If it's green/brown and cloudy, it's algae, right?! I just wanted to be sure I wasn't...

cartridge was cleaned on monday. psi is 11, it's never gone up or down, that's where it always is, but we clean the filter a minimum of once a week. i'm so sorry i'm confusing everybody, i'm realy not trying to be :). when doing test for chlorine, i filled the cylinder to 10, add the powder...

sorry, bad combination of dyslexia and lack of caffeine..... ive got the talor kit. here are the correct #'s with the proper letters assigned to each. C-16 CC-0 TC-16 TA-120 PH-7.5 CH-100 CYA- 40 that looks better, eh? and yes, i am slamming, and the test really didn't turn pink after...

Hey! had a gorgeous pool just a few days ago. missed 48 hours of keeping up on my chlorine, and an algae bloom started. had the green cloudy water. no worries, i tested and made adjustments, kept it at shock level for 24 hours. i tested the water and had it at shock level last night at...

will do! thanks much :)

Since joining this site, reading like a feind, and getting the proper test kit, with your help, my pool has been fantastic. never looked better. Friday afternoon, we had 2 of our gkids in the pool. They had sun screen on, but i didn't think it was overly much. Saturday morning, the pool was...

hey thanks! sorry it took so long for me to respond, we had a wicked storm come through about noon. 75+ mph straight line winds, so, i've been working on getting half a tree out of my pool. and the dirt! oy! the pool's going to be cloudy for days just from the dirt. i'll see if one of my...

the reason i ask this question, is because last year, we had a pool store experience (and ended up with quite a bit of copper stains) got that cleared up, but this year, the stains are coming back. (so maybe we didn't get it cleared up like we thought we did!) i did the metal stain protocol...

girl power!!! much to my husband's pleasure, i fixed it all by myself. (well, i did have to have neighbor boy/man come over and muscle the inlet elbow off) i got both a new elbow and hose, put them both on and ta-da! pool is pumping to beat the band. no air pockets in the pump nor champagne...

thanks, cnj! - the water drips literally from the inside of the hose where the hose and elbow meet. so, i'm thinking i'm gonna go get a new hose AND a new elbow. might just as well make sure i've got it covered, and it's not like we won't eventually need those parts anyway. she's a 17 year...

i'm almost 100 % certain that the end of the elbow is smooth. that's how i remember them being, anyway. until i can get the inlet elbow off, i can't do anything, and i'm still working on that. maybe i should get neighbor boy to do that for me. ;) but i've got a 2nd clamp, and i'll go put...

so, we've got bubbles. didn't take long to find the source of the problem. (mind you, this has been going on since we opened the pool, it just wasn't high up on my husband's list of things to do). so now that he's out of town, i'm looking into it. the leak (a very steady drip drip drip) is...

ok. first i need to apologize. i started another thread yesterday, and realized i wasn't supposed to do that. my sincerest apologies. sorry. here are my #'s this morning- FC- 6 CC- 0 TC- 6 CH- 325 PH- 7.2 TA- 80 CYA- 30 CSI (?)- 0.25 (from the pool math page) water temp - 87 so yay...

:) this pool has been a great investment for us. these original ones are quite well made, apparently. in all the years we've had it, we've replaced the pump once, and will be replacing the pool bladder later this week - that's it. this yankee let her husband know that she wouldn't be living...

well, guess who passed the overnight test?! this girl and her pool! woot woot! now, i'll do the rest of the testing, and see where i'm at. you guys are the best, and i can't thank you enough. :D

ok, good to know that it just might be a bit slower because of the cartridge filter. it's an original sof pool, she's about 17 years old.

said crud does not move at all. wish it would. you can't see the crud in the pictures in the first post?

will do. thanks! is it safe to assume (!) that the crud on the bottom is just super tough algae, and will eventually leave my life?

ok, then. i'll just keep at it. and i'll tell my husband that we're sticking with this method until further notice. i do the same, work with the burshed in the pool, get out, test and raise FC, wait a few hours, wash, rinse, repeat....

i checked the cya on the 11th (wanted to make sure it got up to 30), but i'll check it again. i've got a hand brush for the skimmer, but there's a couple of spot that're really really hard to get at, right under the bladder, and right up against the wall. i'll use my grand daughters...

here she is from above, sorry about the shadows from the trees. to your questions: i added the cya the night of the 6th, and started slamming the morning of the 7th. I can feel no difference with the "stuff". most of the bleach was fresh-ish. i had a few jugs of bleach that i found out...

no lights. just added the pool ladder 3 days ago, and i was tired of hauling my 50 year old self out of the pool without it. ;) i'm being extra aware of the skimmer, tho.