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I have some rubber freeze plugs with wing nuts that I've used in excess of 15 years. I guess based upon some of the input, maybe I should consider replacing this year, although I've not yet had any problems with them.

Understood. But if I put a solid tarp over the mesh cover to keep sunlight out, and use a silver colored tarp to reflect heat, and add a bunch of algaecide at closing, can I "get away with" closing earlier? This seems to be the concept described in the video that Marty posted. Interested in...

Thanks for posting this webinar. I have followed the advice to close late and open early for the past several years with great results--I wait until my water temp stabilizes at/about 60F before closing. But this doesn't happen until almost the end of October, and I'm constantly digging large...

Calcium Chloride from the pool store is very expensive, and I see that many TFP folks buy alternate products. For instance, TFP ("Recommended Pool Chemicals") suggests using Peladow, yet Peladow's spec sheet...

Thank you all for your input.

If you have a mesh safety cover, as I do, then your pool will refill over the winter due to precipitation. So how often you will have to pump water out of the pool during winter months to keep the level below your skimmers & tiles will be a function of your average precipitation and how much...

My pool was replasterd and started up in early July, 2018. It's my understanding that pH tends to creep up after replastering requiring attention and acid addition. But 2-1/2 seasons later, I still seem to be constantly fighting with my pH creeping up. I keep track of acid consumption, and...

I've used the Apera pH20 for about 2-1/2 years now with good results. I purchase bottles of buffer solution to do a two-point calibration, and Apera also highly recommends using electrode storage solution--the cap that fits on the end of the Apera meters is very small, so it uses very little...

Thank you for your feedback and I certainly share your feelings about pool store testing, and I rarely get my water tested at a pool store. The only thing in this case that concerns me is that my cyanuric acid concentration has dropped recently, corresponding with heavy rain. As I understand...

Any thoughts on why I am consistently getting results for calcium hardness that are higher than two local Leslie pool stores? I am consistently getting results in the range of 275 to 300 ppm, and two separate Leslie pool stores are consistently getting results of 200 ppm or less (170 ppm...

Have you checked to see if any of the pool stores near you rent blowers? A pool store in my area rents blowers for a relatively small amount--$10 to $20/day as I recall.

Can any of you help me in regard to the "fading endpoint" issue with the TF-100 calcium hardness test? If I carefully follow the CH procedure, 8 drops of R-0012 gives me a “purplish blue” (my son called it “indigo”) color.9 drops starts to turn into a true blue, and it stabilizes at blue at 10...

Kim, thanks for your feedback. I received this startup card from my plastering company and have been following it as carefully as possible. It states "It is recommended that you do not swim in the pool until the water is properly balanced." My pool water was properly balanced within 3-4 days...

I have read through the article entitled "Start-up New Plaster" and clearly see the instruction not to swim during the Break-In period. But it is not clear to me how long the break-in period lasts and what defines when the "break-in period" ends. The start-up procedure given to me by my...