Recent content by diananr

Thanks Jim and mknauss, tomorrow I will try and scoop up some of the white flakes. I'm not getting any white material in the robot or in the skimmer socks, but I'll try to gather some up. The pump generally runs at 2400 RPM, filter pressure looks to be about 3psi. I'm not sure if we should...

Hi Jim - thanks for responding. The debris doesn't sink to the bottom, just kind of float on top. We have a Maytronics Dolphin 300si, named Dolph for short. I'm attaching a pic of the filter/pump. I'm also attaching a pic of one of the original cartridges. The end caps completely...

I’ve been very lax about pool care for the last 6 months and it is biting me big time. We are new pool owners, put the pool in in Summer of 2019. Pool is 36,000 gallons, SWG. We had a big storm in late January and there was a lot of leaves and sticks at the bottom of the pool. On 1/31 I...

Ok, that makes sense. I sucked at chemistry, but am learning!

I'm sorry Marty, I'm not following. If my fill water CH is 50, how will my current CH of 150 increase as the autofill adds more CH at 50? Will use the sock method on CYA. Will find some calcium chloride and aim to get CH to 200. We are only running pump/SWG from 7am - 6pm. We had it going...

Fill Water PH = way less than 6.8, TA = 80, CH = 50 No idea how much CYA he dumped in. Using SWCG, its set at 50% output

We finally finished our in ground plaster pool. We had a pool guy help with the chemicals and start up for the first 30 days, and now he is done. I’m glad because he wasn’t that informative. In retrospect, that was a waste of money. Our pool fill was June 23, white plaster finish. Here are my...

I'm calling around now to get quotes on trucking in water. It doesn't seem to be that common here. I'm nervous about the cost, but I don't want to ruin the pool finish right at the beginning...

Hi- We are due to plaster our pool any day now. I just got back a water report I had run by a local lab, and I'm concerned that the copper is too high and will damage the pool plaster. We do not have a water filter or softener system at our house. Results are as follows: Copper...

Hi all- Thought I’d post an update. Things have been moving at lightening speed here! On Monday March 11th excavation was done. 3 ½ ft to 8 ft. I got in the pool and walked around it and was initially very unhappy because the pool was not really dug to our plans, they didn’t’ provide enough...