Recent content by ACastillo

I'm in my 3rd year of a new pool, that has been run under the TFP method from the beginning. Never had any water issues, and other than having trouble at times sourcing liquid chlorine, it's been a mostly "trouble free pool". Recently, we started to notice that the spillover from our hot tub...

Thanks so much for the suggestion. That sounds exactly like what I have. I may carefully take pumice stone to see if I can take it down and see if it comes back.

Any idea what might cause this? The this volcano looking structure has formed on the pebble sheen plaster in the shallow end of our pool. The plaster is 2.5 yrs old and Ca levels have always hovered around 300ppm. Its hard like calcium but has a cavity in the middle (like a crater). its...

Pool photos

Plaster formation

Are they able to patch without draining the pool? It's about 3 feet under water.

Our pool was plastered and filled on December 12. With the weather warming we heated the pool this month and so I decided to inspect the plaster now that the water is tolerable. Upon inspection, I found about a 3/4" hole in the plaster, that looks to go all the way down to the gunite. I've...

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I appreciate everyone's feedback. I definitely put minimal value in the pool store testing, each time the guy doing the testing was either talking to me or talking to someone else, so his full attention was not on the testing. Texas Splash, thanks for the additional reading materials on the...

I have a new pool that was filled Dec. 15th. Using my TF-100 test kit, I measured pre-fill water as having CH of 150, and immediately following fill up, I measured CH at 100. Trying to bring up my CH, I have added 45 lbs of calcium over the past month and a half, and using my TF-100 I'm sitting...

I also received my Warrior SE from Marina Pools and have been running it for about 3 weeks now. It does a pretty good job in my opinion. I do have several benches and ledges, as well as a tanning ledge, but I just brush those onto the main floor and let the robot clean from there. We have bar...