Recent content by bekeylou

OK now i have a test kit not THE test kit, I am saving in my piggy bank for that, I have about a dollar and thirty three cents saved up. but here are my numbers now FC 0 pH 7.5 TA 130 CH 80 CYA 0 ? ok so im not entirely sure that the chlorine is right because i dont have the good test for...

no she can't. my husband did ask her if shes ever read the labels of the stuff though. she doesnt think its chlorine at all. she thinks its magical sanitize and clear your pool potion and she doesnt think that chlorine even does that. she also thinks the chlorine smell is too much chlorine...

Well I am thoroughly stressed now. But not about my pool. My sister in law thinks that burn out is something special that kills bacteria and nothing else will sanitize your pool and keeps telling us to use it to clear it up. We are planning to shock tonight but I told her I did not want to...

Well I thought I did this yesterday but I guess not. So here are my new numbers. FC 2.5 TC 2.5 pH 7 TA 63 (adj 54, should I use this number instead of 63?) CH 86 CYA 30 that was only two days after putting the stabilizer in and I put in what I had which I thought was one and a half to...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and help. They do carry borax at our wal-mart but today they were out and also were out of stabilizer. Yes, I found the pool chemical section, in the stupidest place. It was no where near the pools and stuff where it used to be and not even in the garden...

I recently went to wal-mart with my husband, and baby in the shopping cart, and we had a cart full of bleach and I sort of glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us funny but I don't think anyone noticed. Not even the store clerk. :( I told a friend to put a quarter cup in a kids...

Yes I know. Wal-mart doesn't have it, nor do the Dollar Market or the Family Dollar store (where I work). I read somewhere someone found it in a walgreens, havent looked there. I will most likely have to go out of town and look, but thats okay, it's the town I have to go to if I want to do...

Borax will be much easier for me to get. I've never seen washing soda anywhere here where I live and I've looked because I have read a lot on this site, but I will keep that in mind and try to look elsewhere. My husband did another round of bleach after brushing and backwashing and sticking...

my water is cloudy blue, my sample water looked clear im about to order a GOOD test kit but heres what i got from the pool store today TC 1.7 FC 0.6 pH 6.9 TA 51 CH 60 CYA 0 i have put my numbers in pool calculator and have jotted down a shopping list soooooo..... what do i put in...

Well, sort of. Get ready to read cuz I'm about to tell my pool life story. My husband and I just bought a used AG and finally after 20 days of rain in May our friend the pool guy came to help put it up(for free!). It now has most of the water in it and his above ground crew supervisor is...