Recent content by chadly

Thanks for the tips. I'll try again tonight and measure in the same spot.

I'm so confused. I'm a new pool owner and this is my first foray into all of this. I posted earlier about how I was SLAMing the pool. Well, I tried to do the OCLT last night. After the sun went down, I measured FC of 12.5. I turned the SWG off (set the Aquapure to 0% in the iAqualink app) and...

Yes, using TF-100 test kit. I'm pretty confident in CYA reading, although that was the one that I was most iffy on (new pool owner) when I was doing all the tests.

I did a FAS/DPD test after the sun set and got 3.0 FC. My pump ran all night over night with my SWG running at 30%. I woke up and did another test before the sun started to hit the pool and got 2.0 FC. I was expecting the FC to be higher so I figured something is eating the chlorine. I ended...

Thanks for the info everyone. I'll be patient and report back how long it all takes to dissipate.

Ya'll were right. Apparently I don't know how to buy bleach. I have been using Clorox with chloromax for a few weeks now. Should I do anything to correct that other than stop using it?

We have bubblers and two scuppers which are currently scheduled to run for an hour each day. I can turn that off. The pool filter pump is "connected" via the spa (hope that makes sense). So, whenever the pool filter pump is on, it is always also filling the spa and spilling over into the pool...

Hmm, let me check when I get home. When I bought it, I was specifically looking for plain bleach with none of the extras (after reading about it here first). I'll recheck to make sure though.

That was a point of contention with the PB when he was installing the system. He assured us we can run it without the cartridge and didn't put it in (although not really sure how to verify that). It's just regular old plain bleach from Costco. Up until I added the bugoff, I was using that...

Thanks, updated my signature. I was hoping it would just dissipate over time. I guess I was a little worried today when it seems like it is still bubbly after a couple days of SLAMing. Do you think this is a few days type of time frame or like a months/year type of time frame? The water looks...

Just finished our new pool in the last month. It rained a lot on Thursday of last week and on Friday morning we woke up to a hundreds of bugs in the pool. After a little bit of research, we determined that they were probably water boatmen / backswimmers. We were having people over for the first...