Recent content by bmalouf

I bought a foreclosure home which had a pool and posted the progress cleaning it up last year. The pool has been a blast. Last year after it cleared up, we noticed a crack in the plaster under the spa and into the step in the deep end. We just watched it and it has not grown at all. I have not...

Does anyone know if this pool was finished?

Great, thanks for the calculations. And yes as soon as I tested and saw the low numbers I went to pool calc and got my calculations for the bleach and added it. One question I do have is it seems like I am having to add a lot of bleach all the time? In the past few weeks due to high temps here...

Ok have some exact measurments. Widths 30' long 15' wide on either end 14' wide in center Depths 8' deep end 6' center 4' shallow end Steps are 7' long Spa 8' wide by 3.5' deep. Seat is 16" wide at 2' deep(from waterline) Water test Ph 7.2 Cya 90 2 FC Cc .5 TA 50 Ch 320

I've been very busy the past week or so and have not had much time at all to do measurements and a lot of extra things to my pool. But trying to get a list of pool things done this week. I put in an intellibrite spa and pool lite today. When I did the spa I drained it and snapped a few pics of...

Swampwoman; thanks for all the insight on staining. I figured I would have to drain and acid wash to completly get rid of my stains. But I will defiantly try some of your suggestions to try and figure what type of stain I am dealing with. Dickeystorm; you are right I do need to take accurate...

I left town for a week and a half on vacation. While I was away I didn't have anyone that I thought I could trust to take care of pool while gone. My inline chlorinator appeared to have some problems and I was unsure if it worked correctly since I had been using the BBB method. I felt the...

Have not posted in a while but wanted to show the progress. Water chemistry is in great shape right now. My calcium levels were high at like 500 in the beginning but they are now down to 200. The only slightly high reading is my CYA and it's at about 80. But I don't guess that is too bad just...

Hey there. I'm having the same problem with my 3900. 2 out of 3 Venturi jets are clogged. I have beat my brains out for hours trying to get this thing adjusted and I have gotten no where. Did you ever find a solution? I'm about to the point where I'm going to go buy another 280.

Why drain it when you don't have to...kinda cool to go thru the "swamp to clear" process without having to drain. Also in my city I had no real option to drain without having to pay the city a sewage fee.

Sorry its been a few days. I have been so busy with the pool and house that I have not had any time to post. First, boy have I been through a lot of bleach! This has been a fun but time consuming process. Its awesome to see how the water turns from basically black to now blue. I am now on my...

So i did some searching today and found my leak. My backwash line runs into the tree line of my property about 30' away from the equipment. The sight glass on the pipe is so yellow you cannot see what is passing through it. It turned out that my backwash valve is damaged internally sprung a...

Also I have a new problem. Today at around 12pm I filled the pool to right below the overflow drain. I then cleaned the de Filter and started everything back up. I could not tell a difference in the water level. I came back at 4 pm it was down 3/4 of an inch. I think I could possibly have a...

No real problems with calcium test but just seemed like it was a high number and I had to add a lot of drops to get the results. I will do a retest and now that I have the extended instructions I am more clear on things. A few questions, just to be clear. So it takes bleach to raise CYA? And on...

Ok...It's been a busy past few days. We got the cover off and started getting the leaves out of the pool. Boy what a job that was. I got several wheel barrow loads out. I broke 3 pool poles in the process. The spa was mostly drained down so i got the water and leaves out of it. Once the water to...