Recent content by belle4397

That's basically what I had been doing with my pool prior to now. I very rarely had to add baking soda and was just trying to keep pH below 8. We had a pretty good routine going, I just was curious whether the routine would be disrupted significantly by starting with fresh water, or if I could...

There's a truck that brings the water?! I didn't kniw that was an ootion!! We just filled with hoses, it took 3 days 🤣 I too was pretty excited about a fresh pool, since who knows what the previous owners put in this one. I only ever put in chlorine, stabilizer, acid, and baking soda, but...

The book came with the test kit, not the pool itself. It is a vinyl liner, but in-ground. I'm used to having to bump TA higher, if anything, so the higher reading was outside my experience so far. But, since it wasn't "too" high, I was hoping we wouldn't have to worry about it.

It's not exactly that I'm hesitant to post results, I just didn't think the results were particularly relevant to the question I was trying to ask. But maybe the problem is that I didn't even know the question I *should* be asking, which is maybe the question you all are trying to answer. Lol...

I guess the answer I'm looking for is that there isn't anything particularly different about a pool with new water vs an established pool. The question I was asking shouldn't have anything to do with my test results, because I just wanted to know, in general, if there are any differences...

There isn't anything going on. I've just never had to refill the pool before, so I'm just curious if there's anything that may be a bit different to start with that I should keep an eye on. Something that I may be unaware of since I've only ever taken care of an "established" pool before.

Hi, I've had a pool for several years now and am accustomed to taking care of one, thanks to so much help from you all when we first started! My question now, is we just got a new liner the other day, and so just refilled the pool with fresh water. I'm just wondering if there is anything that...

Ok, that makes sense. I will stick with the higher minimum for now then, since I am tired of slamming (and sadly I think I missed the last few days of pool weather because of this stupid algae 😭). Thank you!

I have just finished the mustard algae protocol and my chlorine is on its way back down to normal. I noticed on the mustard algae chart, it listed a "mustard algae minimum" chlorine level. Since I've had mustard algae now, should I use that as my new minimum chlorine level? Or, if I followed...

That's funny, because last year when we bought the house, we were clueless. We were using the trichlor tablets, so our stabilizer got super high before we realized what was going on. We didn't have any issues with any type of algae though until this year where we've gotten our CYA down to...

Sorry, I thought I had already created a signature. Since my phone normally doesn't display them, I didn't realize it was missing 😬 Not sure why it didn't occur to me that I could remove the light before scrubbing it! I guess we'll just do the best we can with the ladder. Thanks for the help!

Mostly the ladder and light. We can get most of the ladder from outside the pool, but not all the nooks and crannies. And the light doesn't seem possible without getting in.

Relatively new pool owner.... After weeks of confusion (algae developed... Tried ro SLAM twice, then maintained perfectly balanced water, just to have it come back over and over) I am 99% sure we have mustard algae. I have read the recommendations, which say to raise FC and THEN scrub...

Thank you!!

Oh, I switched to liquid chlorine! Forgot to mention that, sorry! I am just wondering how quickly it drops.