Recent content by Dawngee

I just read online for Ohio that chlorine needed removed prior to draining to the sewer.

Got it - I will try that. Thanks for your help

One question about draining - I have to get chlorine down to zero to drain out to wastewater sewer, but then what about my algae? Won’t it grow like crazy? The weird thing about last time is when the pump was off it didn’t seem to grow much. Hopefully that happens again? But we will be draining...

Thank you. Luckily after diluting the pool I got a reading of under 100 this past time- but this is good to know.… I also bought the “standard samples” along with my test kit to make sure I’m doing the test right. CYA was a little tougher to be sure, since it seemed like the dot didn’t...

Oh no- I was afraid you were going to tell me that. Bummer! thank you for your response though!

Hi - new house/pool owners here…first opening and we are getting frustrated - it’s been about a month after opening the pool and still battling what we believe is mustard algae….and also high CYA levels. Our CYA reading was 128 (Leslies) on 5/25….I also tested it when I received my TF-100 kit...

Thanks for your quick response!

Sadly my first taste of pool ownership is awful - we bought a new house/new pool , where the aqua smarte system was being used since the pool was installed in 2018. Also previous owners used a styrofoam floater / chlorine tablets. Long story short, after opening to some possible mustard algae...

Thank you! I have been reading lots of info here and am ordering the TF -100 test kit.

Hi everyone! I found this site after googling about how to treat yellow/mustard algae o_O We recently bought a house that has a pool and we have no experience in pool care, and have been relying on the wide variety of advice (and products 💰💰💰) that we are getting from local pool supply stores...