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Yay thanks so much. Kids are happy. 😃

Was on vacation for a couple days, come home to find a slightly green/cloudy pool. I think my husband left the swg off when he cleaned the filter last Tuesday. I tested the chlorine & it was 0. So far I’ve added about 1.75 gallons of 10% chlorine about 1/2 gal at a time. It kept showing 0 or...

Thanks for the reply! So what do I do when my hose fill water comes out at 190 TA? I'd have to add a ton of muriatic acid to get it down to 50, right?

Hi All. I refilled my hot tub this weekend and followed a combo of the instructions here and the manual from my tub/chemicals. The main difference is my hot tub manual recommends a much higher TA - 125 - 150. My TA and pH were high so this is what I did and ended up with ~22ppm bromine in the...

Hi all. Sorry for this basic question, but I read the bromine sticky and searched but I'm still confused. Basically my husband has been taking care of the hot tub with a pretty lax method, and after the recent news about people dying at the state fair I'm a little nervous it's not good enough...

I purchased the Taylor K-1766 kit and used that. It's brand new since my old one was expired.

OK so I noticed our SWG was on and asked my husband why. All this time I thought it had some kind of sensor and would only go on if it needed to get it to the level we set, but my husband just explained that it will continually output the level it is set at regardless of the chlorine level in...

Oh great! Now if I can only figure out how it got that high to begin with! We turned the SWG down to about 3 instead of 7 so we'll see what happens I guess.

The heat pump model is ACT1100. We've been running then regular pump running from 8AM to 6PM, the heater will only run when the pump has flow. My husband is home all day and he can hear it when it is on, so he's been listening for it. We left the cover off last night and this morning it was...

Well we definitely try to keep it on at night to keep the heat in. I probably should have mentioned I'm in New Jersey, so it's still spring here with temps in the 60's-70's, only occasionally climbing up into the 80's (thanks global warming!). We opened it on Apr 30th. But any time it isn't...

My pool is acting crazy this year. We opened it and set the heater at 84 and put the solar cover on, but within 2 cloudy/cool days it was up to 87! It was a bit green when we opened so I added liquid chlorine up to shock level, but couldn't SLAM since my old test kits expired and I was waiting...

Hi TFP. I have the Taylor K-2006 and Sodium Chloride K-1766 test kits, but the bottles have expiration dates ranging through 2017-2018. I’ve already put in an order for new kits but they won’t come until next week. I just opened my pool 2 days ago and it was a little green, so I’ve been adding...

I have a simple setup and we paid $350 cash to open it yesterday (check would have been more, don't know why).

Awesome thanks!! The timing couldn't be better - we had the worst March/April it seemed like it would never end. Now 2 days after my pool is opened its a heat wave! I just have to figure out how to get out of work early. :)

I have a heated fiberglass pool with swg, 2 years old now. We still get the guys who built it to open and close it, then in between I take care of it using advice from this site. I am happy to say that it was opened yesterday and was totally clear by the time I got home from work! I'm so...