Recent content by bordelond

I am curious about what is preventing the chlorine levels of your bleach from dropping as fast as it would, say, it were stored in gallon jugs left outdoors on a concrete patio in full sun. Having that barrel buried (assuming in mud/dirt, not in concrete) will keep the bleach much cooler than if...

Just curious: 1) How long does 55 gallons last you? 2) Where do you store the barrel? 3) What's the 'born on' date of that barrel? 4) Any freshness issues when you get down to that last several gallons? I was thinking I might have overdone it when I bought 24 gallons of fresh 10% (21 of those...

Thought I'd post a wrap-up in case anyone has a similar issue and searches to find this thread. That "little bit of haze left to clear" on Sunday 6/16 was totally gone by Tuesday 6/18 -- "TFP clear" water ever since. I think that the little bitty 1000-gph filter pump would've cleared the water...

The last two weekends I've gone and purchased four boxes of exactly this product at our local Home Depot (suburban New Orleans). I've always been able to find dates no more than three weeks old ... and the most recent batch I bought were all dated "19 169" -- that's last Tuesday, June 18th. HD...

My pool is on level grass with concrete tiles under the legs.

Now that I’m looking at this photo ... the walls got straighter after a drain & refill a few weeks ago. But when I first filled the pool two years ago, the sides bent in a bit just like yours. Stayed that all through that recent refill. Not sure why it’s straighter now. Either way, I can tell...

That bending is natural, TomTom — don’t worry about it. I have a very similar Intex Prism Frame pool (looks exactly the same, actually) and it still has that little bend in the sides even when it’s filled up.

I am wondering whether or not there is copper in the soil and water supply around Breaux Bridge -- at least enough copper to make a noticeable difference in pool water. The federal EPA has had a two-decade long agreement with the Louisiana Dept of Health & Hospitals to sample and monitor the...

In that photo, there seems to be some haze obscuring the pool cleaner. Is that a pic before or after you added 3 gal of muriatic acid? For all that muriatic acid, a pH of 7.9-8.0 (post #16) seems quite high. That was a day after your pH tested 7.0 (post #1)?

Just throwing stuff at the wall: Jdking, any chance you're dealing with copper in the water? EDIT: The hills of Eastern Tennessee are rich in copper, and were once the center of a rich copper mining industry. I wonder if there is a significant amount of copper in the ground around Nashville...

Jdking, when you say "green", can you describe the color with more precision? A pretty clear jade green, with little to no brown mixed in? A swampy green-brown mixed-looking color? A pale milky green like the color of (plain) Crest toothpaste? Something else? ... I gotta say ... any kind of...

CYA down from 35 (we'd round up to 40) to 20 in two months? Absolutely possible. See this 2017 thread where I bring up pretty much the same concern. That summer, our pool lost 30 ppm between early June and mid August. That said, I don't think all that loss was due to environmental conditions...

No one has asked you yet: Do you test your own pool water at home with a titration-based kit (drops of liquid reagents, and not paper test strips)? If so, do you know the cyanuric acid (CYA) level of your pool water? And the levels of free chlorine (FC) and combined chlorine (CC)? If you know...

Wish we had deals like this locally. I am really curious about what makes chlorine prices vary so much region to region.