Recent content by barney rubble

Actually, the dog hair is nothing compared to the leaves and pollen. Our pollen in the spring and fall looks like 6 " of yellow snow. I'm not

I replaced our pool equipment last year and while I am generally pleased with it, especially how quiet it is, but I am not pleased with the frequency of cleaning the cartridges. All of our previous equipment was Pentair: DE 60 fns filter, pool heater, and variable speed pump. When it was time...

In November my neighbor's 85 FT tall Oak tree, fell into our back yard. The tree had been leaning against the fence where our pool equipment was located so when the tree fell it wiped out the DE filter, pool heater, and pump along with the gas line to the heater. It also took down 2 of our...

I don't believe I have any metals. We're got 3 inches of rain within 2 hrs on Monday and a daily total of 4, Tuesday we got 3 inches for the day and yesterday a 1 hour downpour gave us 2 inches. I've been adding chlorine throughout the day (except yesterday) and have put as much as 415 oz of...

I'm using the TF100. I think I will concentrate on the PH and follow with chlorine until some of this rain settles down.

I'm fighting an algae outbreak. My pool had looked wonderful up until 1 week ago. The water was crystal clear with no visible signs of algae. Then we started getting unusually large amounts of rain and everything has rapidly gone down hill. I've been throwing massive amounts of bleach into...

Making some progress but still not there. Overnight FC test 20 at night and 14.5 this am. I'll try another Overnight test on Friday or Saturday.

Since I missed your last post about not bothering with another overnight FC test I ended up doing one. After adding another 364 oz at 6:15 I tested the FC around 9:30 PM and it was at 11. I rechecked it this morning at 6 am and it dropped down to 4. I know that's a big drop but I felt fairly...

Actually, the chlorine has dropped to 0 again using the OTO test. It took a little under six hours to use 415 oz of bleach. I just put another 364 oz in (it's all I had left). I'm going to wait about 45 minutes and perform part 1 of the overnight FC test. I'll do the morning test around 6...

Dave; Just as you expected there was absolutely no chlorine. The OTO test was perfectly clear. This afternoon I added 415 oz of bleach based on the calculator to get to 20 ppm FC. After 4 hours the OTO test is still showing high levels of Chlorine but we'll see how that holds up. I will try...

I must be doing something wrong when I test the water. My first test results with my new TF test kit - posted above - showed FC @ 3.5. I decided to do the overnight FC test. I added the recommended amount of bleach (6%) of 176 oz and waited almost an hour to do my last FC test of the night...

So last night I added 228 oz of bleach (6%) per the pool calculator. I was rather amazed this morning to see the green cast has almost disappeared completely. My TF Test kit arrived this morning - talk about fast delivery I just ordered it late Thursday afternoon. The test results are: FC -...

I'm off to Target to get some bleach. I did use the calculator to figure out the amount of bleach (228 oz). How long to I want to keep the FC at 12? Until the stains start to fade? Again, thanks for your input. You folks are great!