Recent content by BigKid4Life

water exchange it is. 18 units of water at roughly $8/unit is a heck of a lot cheaper than RO or throwing too many chemicals at the solution. thx again for all of your input.

thx Allen. Is it likely those brown spots are organic not disappearing because the FC is useless? Also - what's the downside of maintaining FC of 20? just too much hassle constantly adding chlorine or is this level actually a problem?

I tried the tri-chlor and the vitamin C and didn't see much change. The vitamic c did appear to fade the quartz a bit so I have a slightly lighter spot where I tried that treatment. I ran the CYA test 4 times with the dilution both 2:1 and 3:1 to compare results and got results consistently...

Hi - We're new to pools and have loved all of the resources on TFP. We're in the process of weaning off of the "pool guy" and maintaining our pool ourselves but we aren't there yet. We've been seeing a few brown spots showing up on the bottom of the pool and we can't figure out how to get...

I decided to use a wire brush to try and tackle a few stubborn stains (of unknown type) and I can see the areas where we brushed are lighter in color than the areas we didn't brush. Should quartz finishes discolor when using a wire brush? I can't tell if the spot is just cleaner or actually...