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Update: I played around with the valves and speeds a bit this morning following your suggestions. I was afraid yesterday to divert any water away from the returns, but once I set that jandy valve to favor the waterfall/cleaner and opened the cleaner and waterfall valves fully, I was able to set...

This is exactly what I needed - it's so simple when you spell it out, but sitting there staring at the valves tonight, I was baffled. Thanks! Will give it a go tomorrow and report back. Again, in my PB's defense, I don't think my wife ever told the designer that we wanted the waterfall running...

Thanks Jim. Only reason to run the pump that long is because my wife wants the waterfall noise, and I don't have a booster so I have to run the main pump if the waterfall needs to be on. If I had my druthers, I'd cut back on the waterfall altogether because of the increased evap and aeration...

Good news, everyone! I graduated my PB's pool school this morning. (I look forward to your graduation gifts.) Unfortunately, the course on pump run time was limited to "in the summer, I'd run it at 3000 rpm from about 10 to 6." I know that's not taking advantage of the variable-ness of my...

Let us know what your PB says. I had almost the same experience with my Austin build this summer, they poured in 100+ heat and we had cracks in the deck within a week. PB told me they were surface cracks and gave me the same "dime test" line. I know all concrete will crack, just wasn't expecting...

Hi. Have been at a work conference all weekend so haven't done much with the pool other than keeping an eye on the pH. On day 3 I started adding chlorine as per the startup card. No sequestrant because the PB said not to and the card lists it as optional. Have been brushing twice a day but...

So I'm getting conflicting advice about this. The pebble startup instructions say no chlorine in the first 48 hours because of metal precipitation. But I don't think we have metal in our water here, and my PB didn't add any sequestrant (even though the startup instructions say to). On the other...

Yep, we're all set. Right now the chore is keeping the kids from jumping in, the other thing the PB added was two gallons of muriatic acid. I assume to get the TA down from 175 to something closer to the 80 that is recommended for the pebble start-up. Of course, that cratered my pH so I've got...

Bleach!

Thanks! Good idea to just proceed on the assumption of 80 ppm. I think I'm just gonna let him throw the pucks in the skimmer and then remove once he leaves. Will do a full battery of tests (minus CYA) tonight and post results. Thanks again!

Okay, you guys have successfully talked me down from the ledge! I'll leave everything as-is and do a test tonight to see where I stand. I've already got bleach for daily maintenance of my FC in between weekly visits from the PB (I assume he'll just throw some trichlor in the feeder, ugh). How...

I was about to but then folks in the other thread talked me down from the ledge. I'm so paranoid about excessive CYA after reading the forums for a month that it sent me into a spiral. But the experts tell me that even 80 ppm CYA isn't the end of the world and I don't need to worry about...

Maybe I've been reading the forums too dutifully, I was targeting about 50 ppm CYA and you guys had put the fear of God into me about ever going higher than that. But if you think 80ppm isn't going to be the end of the world, I'll just let it go rather than fool with trying to figure out how to...

I'm glad I have the recommended startup procedures to look at, because my PB for sure isn't following them. He just came out to do "startup" and got the pump going, threw a bunch of MA and dichlor in, and then proceeded to dump an entire tub of stabilizer into the skimmer. He's supposed to take...

Re: HELP! Builder's "startup" was a CYA dump! The PoolMath calculator shows that 9lbs (144 oz) of stabilizer should raise my 13.5k pool's CYA to 80? Or am I doing something wrong?