Recent content by DesertGolfGuy

Richard thanks for your help. Good-to-go now. Extrapolating how much water I had to swap, my guess is my CYA was around 400.......no more trips to the pool store with battles of water! Thanks again for your insights!

Until yesterday, I relied on my local pool store to test my water, and tell me what to do. Last week, before my K-2006 kit arrived, they told me my chlorine was perfect (whatever that meant to them), my CYA was at 40, and all other metrics were in range. Yesterday, doing the testing myself for...

Yes, I've been fortunate enough to get to Augusta a few times. Never played the course - but getting tickets for The Masters was more than I could have ever expected. Seeing the event on TV is special - but nothing like being there in person!

We are in the Coachella Valley in Southern California, and for the past fifteen years, lived in a home with a 10,500-gallon pool. We've never had a "pool guy" - that was me - and about all I could do right was grow green water. I started to read posts on this forum last year, and it really...