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I'll definitely crack open the valve at the slide to let the water trickle and cycle back to the pool (after flushing the line out a bit onto the lawn). The flexible PVC hose that runs up to the slide cracked last year and we haven't used it much, but I got some replacement hose from Ace...

Matt - as always, thanks for the recommendations and for keeping me on track. At about 11~12 days in, I'm pretty sure we passed the OCLT with a 0.5ppm FC loss overnight and CC @ 1.0ppm. I'm going to continue dosing throughout today, add some fresh (well) water, vac-to-waste some last traces of...

Thanks for the advice, Matt! When possible, I'll have my wife add some chlorine during the day. I'll also keep in mind the deep clean filter idea if it doesn't pass the OCLT soon. I figure I'll tear about the sand filter either way this weekend (for a deep clean or sand change if the OCLT...

Thanks for the reassurance, Matt! Haha... Glad nobody was hurt by the bird - the chlorine was really doing it's job! We keep adding chlorine, mostly in the evening and early morning. Today is ~Day 10 and we've added over 51 gal total of 10%. (The cost of chlorine to date is probably...

Thanks for the recommendation on the MM... I'll look into those threads. I know I haven't really given you any details about the staining or iron in well water situation, but in general, you would prefer MM over Jack's Magic Pink or Purple Stuff? Just trying to line up all the goods in advance...

Husky25 had some good recommendations from the following post... have you already checked all of these?: "Are there any crevices, nooks, or crannies you can think of? The skimmer frame or inside/behind the return jet eye perhaps? There is possibly a piece of foam behind the skimmer weir to keep...

Thanks for the quick confirmation, Matt! Thanks for steering me in the right direction. I'll wait until the conversion is complete, then let the FC naturally fall to a point where I can add the sequestrant and possibly perform the AA treatment for stain removal at that time as well. Do you think...

As a follow up to the water discoloration, I found an old post possibly confirming my suspicion about the iron in the well water: https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/4048-Clorox-turns-water-brown-why When I got home from work today, the water looked better. So I checked chlorine and...

farmerpatti: thanks for the quick replies and added tips! There's no rain in tonight's forecast, so I'm crossing my fingers for tonight's OCLT! (I have a jar in storage with tonight's sample, just in case.. thanks for the recommendation!). Good call on the sand change... I'm looking forward to...

Just wanted to post an update... everyday the water has been getting clearer and over the past couple days, we could finally see the bottom the deep end (by ~day#4)! The 3-4 minute filter backwash 2 days ago seemed to help things along. Backwashed again last night due to the added rain water...

Hi Matt: Thanks again for the suggestions! I'm over 2.5days into the conversion and have been topping up to 15ppm every 1-2hrs from 7am~11pm. Yesterday morning and this morning the FC was at about 11-11.5ppm after adding chlorine the previous night to ~15ppm. The water is starting to clear...

farmerpatti: good to know, can't wait to see the bottom so I can give it a thorough vacuum job! Good job on getting your filter sand replaced. If it was so clean and not all 'gooped' up, and you were passing your OCLT, why did you change the sand? Was it because it's one of the final steps on...