Recent content by Caspian

Thanks tim5055. As of Tuesday night, I passed the overnight chlorine loss test. The chlorine loss for the full night was 0.5ppm (from 20ppm to 19.5ppm). Since pool water is clear and there is no other sign of algea, I stopped the SLAM process three days ago. I have been monitoring the chlorine...

I have been following the instructions and have been SLAMing the pool for last three days. With my CYA of 50, I am trying to keep my FC at 20. After three days, I increased my FC level back to 20.5 last night. Before sun was up, I woke up and remeasured my FC level and it was 19. I thought that...

Yes, will do that starting from Friday. Thanks for the detailed description.

Thanks again. I will SLAM but most probably I have to wait until Friday so that I can do a better job over the weekend instead of trying to learn and SLAM the pool while at work.

Thanks Mr Bruce and Texas Splash for your input. I added more liquid chlorine this morning and I was wondering what happens if I don't do SLAM and keep my FC levels as suggested. since I have a crystal clear water, will that be a problem in the future. Should I try to do the overnight test...

Hi everyone, I just did my test with my TF100 test kit and here are my results: FC: 2 CC: 0 TA: 130 CYA: 50 PH:7.8 CH: 400 I will add more liquid chlorine to increase my FC level. Other than that I have couple of questions: 1) should I worry about my TA level and should I try to reduce it? 2)...

Thats true actually. I just ordered 1 from Amazon and I will get it by Wednesday...

NEw update: I spent quite a lot of time yesterday to fix pump priming issue as suggested here and also used magic lube for all the o-rings and it was still not working as of last night. This morning I tried again and it worked great for the first time. No air leak and priming is so good. I still...

I have been trying all the suggestions that DeanP66 mentioned above. I checked the o-ring, used pool lube and filled the basket with water and released the air from air valve of the filter, but still no luck. I have a valve between vacuum cleaner and skimmer line that goes into the inlet pipe of...

Thanks for all the input. I added the liquid chlorine and the stabilizer as suggested bu the poolmath calculator. Now it seems I have another problem. Pool pump wont prime anymore ( both at skimmer or at cleaner, wont prime) and there are air bubbles coming out of the return lines. it seems...

Thanks Rob. I live almost 5mins away from Gilbert Rd. and 202. I will definitely go there to check.

Thanks Mr. Bruce. I will check my local Walmart/home Depot store today when I go there to buy liquid bleach. I will go with the solid kind as you suggested..

Thanks Peirek for your input. First I will aim to increase my CYA to 40 with FC of 6. Poolmath calculator tells me to add 70 oz of 10% liquid bleach and 152oz of liquid stabilizer. I also read that liquid bleach will not affect CYA values so those should be independent , correct? One last...

Just updated my signature and posting this to test...

Hi everyone, I just finished filling up my pool after my 2nd (almost complete) drain. Here are my new values: FC : 1 CC : 0 CYA : ~0 (filled the full CYA test tube and still clearly see the black dot) PH : 7.5 TA : 140 CH : 400 According to my 2 weeks of experience and reading pool school...