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Thanks! I guess I was thinking that having the returns closer to each other and the shallow return farther up the pool might "cut off" the shallow end and create like an eddy/dead zone there. But I hadn't even thought about the obvious by just swiveling the return's "eye" towards the shallows to...

We bought a house with a neglected pool last year and it took a turn on us. During the off-season the liner split and it developed an underground leak requiring the returns to be replumbed. We have a contractor helping us out, but we’ve run into some complications with the returns. Due to how...

Sorry I dropped offline for a while again. Thanks for the info, I have been slow on getting to the closing writeups but will be learning quick now and that is a good start. Around here a lot of people are already closing their pools (at least ones with pool companies), but my water temp is ~75°...

Good news to report I think! Apologies for the long gap, but I've been still working at the pool as able and I had some family staying at the house and they were helping take care of the water too. A few days after my last post, I went by and suddenly the water was by far the most clear I'd...

Thanks! I had actually used some cal-hypo originally against the SLAM recommendation (that is what I found locally to initially get the pool from 0FC up to SLAM level), but hadn't put any in for over 2 weeks since I had found the liquid again (I ordered more liquid from Walmart last night as was...

Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't think about getting the chlorine delivered from Wal-mart, etc., they had been the cheapest option by far previously so I will look into that. Also the bucket test seems so simple, but I probably would have never thought about it haha, will do that to have a...

Right, I have noted the rough amount of water drop that it takes me to backwash. I usually prep for that by adding water before and after to try to maintain about the same level. I'm talking more like I put it up to a certain level one night and when I come back it's dropped more than expected...

Good info! I was afraid if I put too little powder in it might turn pink initially but then turn back clear "too quickly" or something when adding the drops. I can usually tell when there is a high chlorine level because the sample goes especially dark pink. I've been adding two level scoops...

Thanks for well wishes! It's difficult since I have been dealing with a flareup of some chronic issues while my wife is recovering from an emergency surgery. She hasn't been cleared to drive yet, so I don't like leaving her alone too much. I am planning to backwash more frequently, it seems to...

Hi, my filter's clean pressure is around 18-19psi (which I was going to investigate a bit at some point). I did backwash after seeing that reading, and it was another large amount of that milky white backwash. I understand that we might have caused things to drag out a bit, some of it was...

Thanks for the responses so far. I feel like I've been doing better with my methods since I first started noticing the variations. However, I do think that maybe I have not been holding the bottle totally vertical as was mentioned, so that might could cause incomplete or different size drops or...

Currently in a SLAM and noticing some of my FC results seem inconsistent. I had done three chlorine tests and got FCs of 11.5, 7.0, and 8.5. The 2nd test was after 30 minutes on the same sample of water that had been on the counter, (I did that test slower than normal too), and the 3rd test was...

Updates: I had missed a day because I was ill this week, and even after no attention for ~36 hours the FC was still 8.0, 0.5CC. I was finally able to find some liquid chlorine at HD (just rolled out a new pallet), so I've been using poolmath to figure the amounts to keep 12FC. The water clarity...

Thanks! I found these pictures on my phone from earlier if it helps. I think the tech was referring to was having to remove all the bolts around the flange to separate the top for access, and then hopefully not breaking or cracking anything. I would think you could try to do a deep clean from...