Recent content by coachmarino

Thanks! Got it floating now...

A few years ago I opened my first pool, and the forum was a tremendous help. Four summers later, I have a crystal clear pool, with the use of bleach, borax, and baking soda. I'm at the next phase, though, in that I have never added CYA, and I think I need some... It's at zero. And I'm...

I have a reliant pool pump, rl2730. This season when opening up the pool, I leaned on it too hard when backwashing and caused a leak. The problem is I don't have a good seal between the strainer housing and the pump cover. The pump cover ended up getting stripped near where it seals, and so I...

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Should I just continue to run the pool filter 24/7? It's pretty much been running for 3 months. I'm not looking forward to the electric bill!

Hi, I'm up and running with our pool. It had been left uncovered for a winter and was a mess, just full of leaves and other debris. After putting in a new filter, screwing up for a couple of weeks, then finding this board and getting on the right track, we finally can see the bottom of the...

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Update Performed the overnight chlorine loss test. Zero loss, and I still have zero combined chlorine, which is good. The pressure was a bit high, so we backwashed. I decided to backwash for a bit longer. I'm putting more fresh water in and filtering. That should help with the FC level...

Okay... So I'm running the Overnight loss test. My FC is at around 28. It was at 32 earlier today. My CC is 0 still, I think. I'm trying to get ahead of all of this... My concerns are not pH, that's in the 7.2-7.5 range. My concern is not CYA, that's in the 30-50 range. I burned through...

My new test results - Not sure how I did, what to do next Merged by moderator, jblizzle. No need to start a new thread with the same question ... my advice not good enough? ;) I have what must be described as mostly clear water. Here are my readings, using the TF-50 and my hth pH test... FC...

I haven't tried the OCLT test yet because the CYA was through the roof. The initial problems were that my girlfriend was just throwing crazy amounts of chlorine in, and we weren't really tracking because I had never done any of this and was just 'taking her word for it,' Then we tried to get...

Help with new test readings... FC - 32 CC - 0 - After adding the R-0003 the solution stayed clear pH - around 7.3/7.4, more than 7.2, less than 7.5 TA - 220 - It says when there's high chlorine, the color will go from blue to yellow, so I'm reading where it turned yellow CH - 100 CYA - Really...

An update... First, please remember that I don't have a proper test for CYA any more, I ran out of the reagent. So I'm waiting for my mail order replacement. Until then, I bought hth strips. I wanted to see if the steps I was having was having any measurable effect on things. After my two...