pool opening

Hi - this is my second season with a pool but the first year we’ve opened it from winterization. It’s been open for one week. Water temp is running between 65-70 degrees F. After 48 hours of the pump running (Thursday) I tested it at the pool store. Chlorine was at 1. Cya at 39. Salt was 2900...

I just opened to deep green, almost brown colored water today and started SLAM, but the filter pressure builds quicker than I'm used to since it's a lot greener than I usually open to. I know im supposed to be running pump 24/7 right now, but does the speed actually matter so long as it's...

33' round above ground pool. Sand filter. Third season with the pool. Last year I switched to liquid chlorine and chlorine pucks through an autofeeder from baquacil. Long story short - didn't understand what CYA was and how it was being added by the pucks. CYA was over 130 last year and I...

We bought our house that has an in ground pool last summer and had a company winterize for the winter. Made the decision to try to open it ourselves with lots of YouTube schooling. Well…we got knocked back to kindergarten! Lol. Thought we had it all done and together. Turned it on and the PSI...

Last year, was my first with a pool. It had to be taken down to level the ground for real this year. I have quite the To Do list before opening this year. properly level the ground clean clean clean the poor dirty pool that has been collapsed and laying around getting gross for months get a...

Hi there, A pool company just opened up my pool, so I have pictures of what the water looks like along with the readings: FC: 1.5 CC: 0.5 PH: Unable to determine (more info below; see pic of attempted PH measurement) TA: 50 CH: 200 (using 25mL sample) --- 250 (using 10mL sample) CYA: 0 (I...

Hello all: I am fairly new to maintaining an inground pool. We had someone close our pool at the end of the last season and in the middle of re-opening, the pool guy has become indisposed. I am trying to get it open myself and it appears all but one plug has been removed. The remaining plug is...

We're trying to open our pool this year and the company we used to close apparently used a PVC pipe in our skimmer that we can't get out. Does anyone have any experience with this? We don't want to pull to hard and break something. We just aren't sure how to get these out!

Hi All. First ever pool opening. I'd like to see if my thinking is moving in the right direction on the opening process. I might be overthinking it so want the folks here to take a look if possible and provide their expertise. Pool installed April 1st. Will have electric hooked by up end of...

So this was the first year opening the pool ourselves (our second season), we noticed the pool company went through maintenance staff last year and someone new closed the pool. I questioned the water level - hoping it isn’t the cause of the following…. now that I have gotten the pool clear and...

I want to pass along what I think is a handy tip for pool owners with cartridge filters. I live in the northeast and I always seem to have a LOT of debris in my pool to contend with each spring. So it's no surprise that my pool filter gets a lot of debris in it from day one. What I learned is...

I'm pretty new to pool ownership. Ive been in a house that has a pool for 3 years now. I've been paying a local pool company to open and close it before and after winter. The first two years when they opened they would pump all the water off the top of the cover then remove the leaves off of it...