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i know y'all are ad-free but if you're sending me somewhere to purchase something, i'd like y'all to get a kickback from it. i'll be ordering the test kit that comes with brushes and other goodies. there's just the one convenient pool store and they're the one i don't trust. i figure...

howdy. my mom decided she wanted a working pool now that she's retired, so we're starting over. again. new liner installed last week, three eyeball type returns, one at the steps and two in the deep end. pool guy said the one on the right back there doesn't work but doesn't seem concerned...

thanks, y'all! i'll do some poking around and if i can't figure it out, i'll post a picture. thanks so much!

hi guys. y'all were super helpful a couple of years ago when we were trying to get our (circa 1975) inground pool going. unfortunately, just about everything that could go wrong, has, and we are simply giving up on it, gonna cover it up and just ignore it for the time being. :salut: we...

we're in NWGA - just a couple hours from Huntsvegas and/or the Tenn state line. just for reference. i grew up with an inground pool, and we never covered it or really did any closing maintenance. we just sorta wandered away for a few months. the water was always green, but there were very...

i don't know if i understand what you're asking or not, but i asked a pool-friend the same question, about how to get ours out, and he said to unscrew the outer part (that sticks out into the pool, that you can sometimes unscrew just by hand) and then to use a wooden paint stirring stick, like...

that's so strange! i had the exact same thing happen yesterday, and again today! it even happened yesterday when i didn't have the vac connected, just the pump running circulating water. (turned it off and started it over, making sure it was all properly primed and no air anywhere it wasn't...

it is? hunh. we got that size after calling several places and giving them the measurements of our pool (again, my husband was telling them we had a 36,000 gallon pool) and all of them said that the C900 would be the right sized filter for our pool. as far as i can tell from the notes i took...

i'm sorry i didn't keep this thread updated, but i've been swimming a lot for the past two days :party: the water still isn't 100% sparkling, but all but the very bottom of the deep end is gorgeous. and the deepest part of the deep end is clear enough for me to see tiny leaf crumbs (before i...

that's just it, though, Carl... i *don't* know for certain what our CYA level is :oops: ever since we first started working on the pool, and we measured it, my husband (who's much more numbers-inclined than i am!) has been saying it is a 36,000 gallon pool and i don't know enough one way or...

CarlD : the only test strips we've actually purchased are the 5-way ones. and we got those with some leftover store credit, so we didn't really pay cash-money for 'em. the 6-way ones i have were a gift from a friend - she accidentally packed them up after their last move and they don't have a...

splitting the "IN" would be a fantastic idea, but i'm not that handy and i doubt i could convince my husband to do it - plus we can't afford the PVC right now. but what i am doing, instead, is putting the vacuum head on the pool hose, connecting that to the "IN" and putting it down in the...

well, the sun came out for awhile today, so i thought i'd snap a couple of pictures! these are clickable thumbnails, should you care to see the larger version. pool steps, showing how clear the water in the shallow end has gotten: and more shots of the shallow end, this is jusssst about...

aha! gordyjamz, thanks :) the water is definitely particulate-cloudy. we don't have lights in the pool, but when i was laying beside the pool so i could scrub the scum-line and make sure i'd gotten all the algae loose.... i could see the little teeny bits of stuff in the water. my eyes are...

Buggsw: you bring up a good point about the sample! luckily, the post office and the pool store are all within a mile of the house, so even if he'd gone to the PO first, it would have been less than five minutes difference. but i believe he went to the pool store first....when i see him next...

thanks again, waste!! :sunny: i'm trying to keep this thread updated partly for my own benefit later (assuming i get this pool cleared up and usable!) and partly in case anyone else has a similar situation and/or knowledge to toss my way. my husband had to go to the post office today, so i...

thanks! :goodjob:

*siGh* our skimmer isn't connected to anything and even if it was we don't have a plate in it, and i don't know where the holes in the bottom go. we disconnected/plugged/capped off/sealed the old plumbing because there's a leak somewhere. all this is in my first post in this thread. we put...

ok, so i tested the water (5-way strip) about half an hour ago and here are the results: (click the pictures to see the full sized versions) three shots taken within a few seconds of each other. the darkest square on the comparator chart is 10 on the top two rows (TC & FC), 240 on the...

thanks, crek31! i mean, i know the getting a good test kit is fantastic advice. and if sales were going better for my husband (who is self employed) or if i managed to get a job (i'm unemployed, but not for lack of tryin'!) then we'd be able to get one this year. but i'm not gonna count on...

gsxr1181: if we hadn't already gotten SO CLOSE this year, that would be good advice. but since we live in Georgia and the swimming season can last clear until October (at least, i know i swam pretty much almost up until Hallowe'en when i was little) i think it is worth it to get this pool to a...

Re: How to clean a cartridge filter we picked up that brass nozzle at Lowe's a couple of weeks ago (i only just saw this post tonight!) but we picked that one up because we noticed that it screws onto the end of the regular, plain old fashioned solid metal spray thingie for the hose. so...

thanks, again. and, i think, yes, the thread got way off topic. we utterly and absolutely cannot afford the good test kits. maybe next year, or maybe i'll get one from Santa. but not before swimming season ends around here this year. i did look at wallyworld and Lowe's, and neither of them...

yes, well, i'd love to get a nice test kit but i can't. we've got maybe $75 total to spend on everything (not just pool stuff) nonessential for the rest of the month. so i can either get bleach and some sunblock and some OFF and maybe we can go out for a fun fast food lunch/treat, or i can get...

yeah, i've figured out (the hard way) that this test kit just... isn't good for anything. i'd never even heard of test strips until we took a sample to a pool store to have them test it, and they had some for sale. (no, we didn't buy these strips there!) my husband insists that the pool is...

half an hour after adding the two big bottles of bleach i used a test strip (AquaChek's 5-Way Test Strip tests for: Alkalinity, pH, Total Chlorine, Free Chlorine, and Calcium Hardness) and i think the TC is between 5-10 & the FC is around 3 the colours don't quite match up with the comparator...

thank you SO MUCH for reading my huge, crazy long and convoluted plea for help! and also thank you for being so nice, i honestly appreciate it ♥ to begin, the test kit is from Ace Hardware, we got it last year when the pool liner was being installed. and the manufacturer is Jed Industries -...

we have a mid-70's in-ground clipped corner Grecian with a vinyl liner (had a new liner installed last year), 1HP Pump (possibly original), and a newly purchased Hayward C900 Cartridge Filter. we estimate that our pool is 32,000-36,000 gallons. we had a Heldor / Baquacil pool when i was little...