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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    on the asorbic acid we applied directly by hand to the stain the white plastic parts which are all new are still white not yellow I took an LED light we bought that attaches to one of the returns and is under water is still white. The stain is only on the vinyl hence my post title... I will have...
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    we have tried asorbic acid...
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    ON the pictures I uploaded the #97-98 and screen shot the last pic show the variation in the vinyl colors of the pieces I mentioned. #99 shows the bottom of the pool curve where it looks like yellow on the seam #2001-2 show the step with what does look like rust but I was able to remove with...
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    we have repeatedly tried vitamin c to see and we paid over 200 for the phoenix metal remover by the pool company... yet the stain is there
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    BTW I wanted to say thank you to all who have replied... I know everyone is busy and all that.
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    one more pic on the step pic I literally spent 10 sec with my finger wiping what does look like rust off but not sure it is rust anyway this is the weirdest problem and 4 pool companies have been out here looking at it none have answers
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    Apologies it was 4 Bio Guard products used in order: Erase stain, pool magnet plus, sparkle up, and klean it. Wanted to clear up a few things: On the water testing we use Leslie's one store to keep the consistency. We test with them once a week or twice a week, we use the the taylor kit at home...
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    Apologies on the taylor kit it does not test for metal, we do have another test kit that does test for metal I believe. I will check tomorrow, we have had the water tested at the state drinking water facility as well as leslie's and the various pool companies who have come out. The original...
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    Hi sorry about the delay, we don't have pics of the vinyl right when it was installed but we did point it out to the installers at the time of install and again during the fill. We have never seen copper above .02 in any of the tests.. Problem is, we have a falling out with the installers'...
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    Any cases where a Latham vinyl liner is permanently stained?

    Hello group, I am trying to help my friend out and we're stuck... after 3 years of planning my friend had her indoor pool repaired with a new vinyl liner, repaired return line and cement work around the top of the pool. The vinyl liner install company and another pool company told her they would...
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    Old school Hayward 244t with organic sand, is this outdated for an indoor pool?

    indoor 13k gallon pool, Hayward 244t sand filter not sure on the pump we have a robot cleaner machine vinyl liner
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    Old school Hayward 244t with organic sand, is this outdated for an indoor pool?

    Hello AK, I am not a pool person I'm 100% new to this world, after all the repairs she finally got to the point of filling this pool in mid-June within 4-5 days we started seeing the metal ring on the vinyl liner waterline... Started working on that with metal removers and all that goes with...
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    Old school Hayward 244t with organic sand, is this outdated for an indoor pool?

    Hi group, newbie here, have some big problems after 3 years of no pool, my GF has a home in CT with this 39x13x5' indoor pool. After many repairs the water was filled about 2 months ago with only a week of use. Got a pool guy out who was really pushing a filter swap to a DE and wondered what you...
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    Newbie.... new to pools, to water, to chemistry, filters and everything!

    Hi all need to post about our issues!!! Awesome story for a summer...