Recent content by dearliza98

@Griswald Thanks!

@YippeeSkippy I hear you. They sold me on the chlorine and steel wall package and then said I could switch to saltwater at no extra cost but it would void my lifetime warranty due to the salt damaging the steel walls over time if a leak occurs. Apparently, if I keep it the way it is, my...

So I checked my CYA before I added any liquid chlorine and it was around 50ppm. I added a gallon of chlorine and in two short hours, I went from basically 0 to 3ppm so that’s pretty awesome. I expected a potent smell putting all of that in at once but there’s nothing. No more tabs for me! Now...

Thank you for the HDX tip at Home Depot. I bought some liquid chlorine with a date of Sept 23 so that’s pretty good. I’ll be rechecking my CYA and hopefully pouring it in today and will report back. On the saltwater chlorine generator, we have a steel wall pool with vinyl liner and the pool...

@ajw22 Thank you for the liquid bleach and pool math details. I had no idea how hard it is to find just regular bleach. Everything I'm seeing online (Walmart, Lowes) is either splashless or has the coloromax technology... Do you have any secrets where to find the regular stuff? I'm going to...

@Bama Rambler @wireform Thank you both for the info. I am by no means married to the tablets... that's just what the pool company told me to use. After doing some homework, I realized that I've just been dumping stabilizer in there with every tablet and probably created this issue. However, I...

Hey all. I’m both new here and a new pool owner. We put in an in-ground pool this summer and it’s been great. My water was perfectly balanced until recently. This may not be great but I had been using Clorox brand 3” stabilized tablets with no apparent issues. I recently switched to In The Swim...