Recent content by apastuszak

I thank God I found this place. I did BBB for the first time last year, and it was the first time that I didn't start getting Algae at the end of August. I'm thinking all those pucks I used shot my CYA high enough that I did not have enough free chlorine to kill the algae. Using a CYA dose at...

Ok, here are the numbers that were asked for: Free Available Chlorine: 0.5 Total Available Chlorine: 0.5 Calcium Hardness: 160ppm Cyanuric Acid: 0 Total Alkilinity: 80ppm pH: 7.4 Copper: 0 ppm Iron: 0 ppm Total Disolved Solids: 800 Phosphates: 0 ppm Temperature: 65 I added the liquid...

I did. The paper is in the car. I'll go and fetch it in a minute.

After fighting with my pool for over a month because I didn't cover it for the winter, the pool is finally CLEAN. I vacuumed the last of the dirt off the bottom and added liquid CYA to it today. The fine folks at Leslie's Pool claim the CYA will be fully disolved in 24 hours because I bought...

The water is now almost crystal clear. Just need to vacuum the bottom tonight. One question though. When I bump the DE with the bump handle a whole lot of stuff comes out of the return. It does not do this when I regenerate and add new DE. I am taking water in to the local pool store for...

Poured two huge bottles in last night. Will add more today when I get home.

Well, I took the cover off the pool and the lack of light killed all the algae. It's all sitting on the bottom waiting to be vacuumed out. Doesn't smell very nice, but I think it's salvageable.

It's an above ground. I'm tempted to drain and refill. Or perhaps drain half and refill. We'll see how it looks. I'm putting the filter back together now after an acid soak.

Well, all I have to say is I didn't cover my pool. Well, I did cover it finally on April 30th because I had my son's First Holy Communion party. So, I'm going to uncover it today, in the 99 degree heat and fill it up and get the filter running. MY question is, since it's been covered for a...

Ok, I've been doing BBB since about the second week in July. Overall, I have been very pleased with the results, though I have cursed it a few times when I needed to add bleach at 8:00 PM and was completely out of it. Anyway, I am using test strips to test my water, because budget did not...

Where are you getting that from. I'd love to get some of that!

The bleach actually sat in my very hot trunk for about a week. I smelled the inside of the bottle afterwards, and didn't notice any kind of odor. The pool isn't giving off any kind of smell either, so perhaps the heat of the trunk somehow destroyed whatever was in the bleach that gave it it's...

Poured in 96 oz of fresh scent beach in the pool and it was in before I realized the label was green instead of blue. Is there anything anything I need to worry about? It's been over 24 hours since I poured it in. Andy

My local pool store claimed that I need to pump the water off the cover after every rain storm. I asked him if that was the case, what the heck was I supposed to do with all the snow on the cover? He didn't know what to say.

Two years ago I bought 2 air pillows. After the pool thawed, the cover sank and I found out both air pillows had popped.