Recent content by Camman

I am hoping someone else has experience with this style of pool. Over our extremely harsh winter here in New England my pool walls apparently buckled under the load of snow, I guess I should have been clearing it off but honestly never gave it a thought because I haven't had to do it in the...

I have a question regarding the return jet/inlet for my above ground pool. The previous owner of my home built this pool and I have always struggled with this really odd inlet connection. It is like a barbed connection but it is way too big for standard flexible pool hosing. Previous years...

Just wanted to come full circle on this post - my pool is finally clear. I purchased some "HTH Super Concentrated Clarifier" from Walmart, started putting some in last Sunday night. Monday the pool was noticeably clearer. Added again Monday night, again marked improvement. Put in a 3rd dose...

I'm with you wmorge, being that the chemistry is looking good, I am passing the OCLT and chlorine is holding I think I'm going to assume it is okay to swim in and continue work on the clarity because I have about 2 months of swim time remaining and I've missed out on a bunch of 90 degree +...

So it's about a week later, and much has changed. Upgraded from the 40 sq ft Easy Clear to a 150 sq ft Xstream CC1500, ran for 3 days straight with no change. Chlorine level is holding, everything is balanced, water feels great, but the cloudiness persists. Its now been about 4 weeks and I...

Perfect, thanks for the quick answers everyone! The 2oz bottle seems like a much better deal than the Taylor bottle and I think my shock process is finally starting to wind down so hopefully I won't have to get anymore the FAS/DPD Reagent this season.

This seems like a stupid question, but, I have to ask to make sure I am not messing up my test results. I have a Taylor K-2006 test kit. I have been ripping through the FAS/DPD Reagent (R-0871). I exhausted the bottle that came with the kit, ordered the .75oz "Taylor Refill" size from...

After doing some searching around here... I am starting to get that impression as well.... I wish I had spent a little more and gotten a larger filter, but I read the "easily handles a 24 foot above ground pool" on the Hayward websites and the positive reviews on Amazon and now I am kind of...

Does anybody have some advice for cleaning up a mess like this with a cartridge filter? As I mentioned I switch from sand to a cartridge filter due to the damage over the winter but it seems like the flow is constantly being reduced but the pressure does not change. Clean, the filter runs at...

Yes the ladder is out of the pool, I'm going to give it a thorough cleaning before putting it back in. FC dropped to 7ppm while I was at work today, just cleaned up the filter and brought it back up to shock level. This sounds strange but the water "feels" better now, like, it feels very...

Well the overnight results are in - lost 4ppm overnight (16.5 to 12.5ppm FC), so looks like I am not done shocking, I was just surprised it was taking so long. Perhaps I need to hit the pool hard with the vacuum today and even though I can't see so maybe I can get some more unseen matter on the...

Good call on that, I had forgotten. Put them into the floater and tossed it in, hopefully that will bring up the CYA a bit with the added benefit of some additional chlorine. I just did my night reading on the pool for the overnight FC loss test. About 1 hr 30 mins between tests and FC...

Thanks for the help everyone. I think I have not had the shock level high enough so I am hoping I will see improvement after bumping up the FC level. It seems like CC has been very low to non-existent the last 2 days or so. I have not done the Overnight FC loss test yet, I will do that...