Recent content by aa62579

Thanks. I just found two completed listings on ebay and sent the links to them. One was used for 3 months and sold for $550. The other was said to have been used only twice and sold for $625. I think that will give them an idea of what they might could get on ebay, but also confirm what you...

Do you think they would have any better luck if they just held onto it over the winter and then relisted it in the Spring?

I have a relative that is asking questions on how is the best way to sell this item. Right now they have it posted on craigslist but no one has responded. http://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/hsh/3454702408.html Any advice on how their price is, anything they can add to the description, or a...

We did not find our hole with soapy water, but were finally able to find it with bubbles, like you buy for kids. Think we saw the to on here. Supposed to be glycerin or something in it that keeps the solution from drying out and allows time for the leak to bubble. We inflated the ring as much...

Wow, so there are two big pools close to each other? (Since I thought I was told you went down through Buffalo Gap to get to Lake Abilene.) I'm going to have to google all this. :) Edit: Looked them up. Your can't see your pool too well because of all the trees surrounding it, but it looks...

Is that the big one by Lake Abilene? Spent a lot of time around Abilene growing up, but never got to go there when I was young or thin enough to be seen in a swimsuit in public!

You need to forget about TA for now. You do need to shock, but you do not seem to be doing the shocking process correctly. You will need to be adding bleach often, hourly if possible. http://www.troublefreepool.com/pool-school/shocking_your_pool

LOL, don't beat yourself up. A little over-bleaching is okay because you were testing in between and never let your levels get too high. As a side note, if you are on a computer, normally when you hold your cursor over the oz of bleach, it will tell you at the top how much that equates to in...

A gallon is 128 ounces. So, 227 oz is less than 2 gallons.

LOL, now I have to find this video!

The one thing I note, is that if you are doing the test correctly (using the 10ml sample size and not 25ml), then it seems like your FC ended up a lot higher than you had intended. Although, you said earlier (and it agrees with the pool calculator) that you need to add 227 ounces. So did you...

I was actually referring to the 0.25 number, not the zero. But that is not the way you do the test. With the test, you count how many drops it takes to turn clear, not to turn pink. If you had no FC, but did have CCs, here is how the test would be run. Add the powder and since it didn't turn...

What sample size did you use for testing chlorine. None will give you that result. It will either be 0.2 or 0.5 if it took 1 drop. If you used the 25ml sample size, 1 drop = 0.2, if you used the 10ml sample size, 1 drop = 0.5. Not so important now since one drop of CC is fine either way, but...

Upon reading more, if you are confident in your 7.6 result, I would only add 20 ounces.

Most tests can't accurately measure over 8.2, so that is why I used it. Whether you want to add 23 or 30 ounces, as you can see by both of these numbers, 128 oz would certainly be too much. I would guess that much would take you into the low 6s. Low pH is much worse than a somewhat high TA...