Recent content by chadly08

Thank you! I will definitely use ascorbic acid next time. Hopefully I won’t need to, but I appreciate the clarification.

100% Citric acid

I did a citric acid treatment + Jack’s Purple to whiten my stairs a few days ago and now I’m experiencing high FC loss. My CC have been 0 all week. My pool is crystal clear. It’s my understanding that the citric acid will be oxidized by chlorine and this along with long St. Louis sunny days is...

Anyone have trouble with getting stains on your hands that won’t come off after testing your water? The stains are a dark black and seem to last until the skin is sloughed off. I’m not sure if the stain is from the fas-dpd reagent or the phenol reagent for ph. The staining on my hands really...

I bought solar naturals from Home Depot for $4/bag. You can easily fit 20 bags in the trunk and back seat of a mid-size sedan.

I’m not sure about the safety of the algaecide. I’m sure someone here will know much more. My neighbor had an issue with ducks landing in her pool and bought a floating toy alligator that helped deter them. Check out Big Joe Pool Petz.

Congrats on the new pool! You’re going to love it. There are people on here that will make you an expert in no time. The first step is going to be to locate a huge stash of liquid chlorine. With your CYA level and algae already starting to bloom you’re going to need many gallons to get to a...

I used bleach on my coping and it worked great. I used a spray bottle to coat the area, let it have some time to work, then sprayed it off with a pressure washer. Concrete comes out clean, and the pool gets a little recycled chlorine and some fill water.

Thanks for your help all!! I ordered some lube to perform some maintenance but I think I was sucking some air from one of the skimmers. Water level was down slightly and letting it pull from the main drain for a bit seems to have cleared the air bubbles. I’m quite relieved. Thanks! Chad

Just a scratch and sun reflection on the clear lid.

I’ve been out of town for work this week. My wife has been home just checking chlorine levels and emptying skimmer baskets. I got home today and checked on the pool and the pump looked like this: When I turn the pump off, half the water drains back out of the pump. It’s doing this whether I’m...

I’ll say I love my universal 40. Get one 2x the rated size and you’re golden.

I doubt that you’d be able to use the circupool controller to control a non-circupool cell. I had asked a question on this site about using a Hayward T-15 cell with a circupool controller and no one had any experience. I wound deciding to just replace both this year. Doing it yourself makes it a...

I had a SWG similar to yours installed on a pool I acquired with a home purchase last fall. It stopped working about a month after I moved in. On mine, even after replacing the flow switch it’d just light up the error light “no flow.” This spring I replaced it all with a Circupool Universal40...