Recent content by akaedge

Thanks for all the advice given. I finally after a week passed all the tests and then it rained so it's clear and dirty now. :? But at least clear of algae. I proved my man wrong... I love it when that happens. It felt so good to be in our pool again after a couple of long weeks. Thanks TFP

Well the evening after posting this I passed the test!! We did get in the water but chlorine was too too high and quite overwhelming so we ended up getting out and calling it a night. The next day we were ready to swim and what do you know a storm blew in and dropped about 6 inches of rain in my...

Thanks for all the replies. Generally I have been keeping the FC above 30 since I had it at the recommended level for 2-3 days without much difference in water appearance. I think CYA levels are maybe a little higher than the pool stores results. And yes once I run out of the dpd reagents I...

Sounds weird to me but last night I put chlorine and tested about an hour and a half later the reading was I think at 35ppm or maybe 32 I wrote it down at home but anyway I tested it at about 7:30 this morning (when the sun is out but hasn't hit the pool yet I don't think) and it was at 13ppm...

I posted up a week ago with help for my green pool after vacation. Well we have been shocking it since last Friday. The water looks so good but it hasn't passed the overnight test. We want to swim, it is sooo hot here in Texas. Can we get in anyway? My husband is very frustrated with this whole...

Yeah I saw that post but it mde my brain hurt. :-D I bought 10% sodium hypo "liquid shock" is what is says on the bottle.

I am in the process of shocking my pool to get out the algae and bought a whole bunch of liquid chlorine from home depot on Thursday. They keep in outside and it looked kind of old but bought it anyway and the lady said if it doesn't work to bring it back. I have put 8 gallons of it in so far...

Thanks for all the great advice. I just finished ordering the kit to test the chlorine levels. This should help tremendously once I get my CYA levels in check. I'm also going to cancel the sand replacement. I hadn't noticed any problems before the algae took over, so it's probably good. I'll let...

Ok so the sand is fine? How do you know? How long does it typically last? The last owner didn't replace it and he lived there 5 years. I have heard 3-5 years and 5-7 years. Of course the psi reading is only at 18. I made an appointment to get it done for Friday. I get so many different views so...

Hi I am new here but have reading through topics and pool school for a few weeks now and I am having a hard time with my pool now. We just bought a house with a pool and it was awesome for the first month and a half and now we are having constant problems with algae. I'm pretty sure I know what...