Recent content by dieseltim2

Check Home Depot. I know the ones near me have DE. I bought 25LBS for $25.

Oh ok, the prices I have seen on the forum were closer to $600. My mistake for not checking prices first hand. At that price it would seem to be an easy decision to replace a Salt system or upgrade from manual dosing. Sorry for the misinformation about pricing.

Sorry, I haven't checked this thread in a week or more. It has a screen inside the belly plate that catches all the trash and dirt. I have found pine needles, whole leaves and lots of heavy grit (from the kids dropping pool toys in the dirt and returning them to the pool with mud still on the...

Yes the install is much the same, but at about half the price.

Great. Thanks Chem Geek. I was hoping you would drop in and give us an answer that I could understand. So, if I understand correctly, the most important part is to make dead sure the test volume is accurate. Then if I'm testing above 15 or more the 20% margin is not enough to really worry too...

I had asked a similar question about 3 weeks ago and never got a reply. My question was / is if I'm at an elevated FC level, and only using 5cc for testing, how far off will my accuracy of my test be? I'm talking FC in the 8-20 range. In other words for the course of a SLAM if I needed to...

Ok, I'm not up on my chemistry as well as some of the others here, but didn't you say that you pulled out a fountain did you mean you put it in the pool? Do you have it running now, or did you remove it from the pool? If you are aerating with the fountain then this will drive up your PH.

Looks to me like the bubbles are coming out of the return. If that is true then you are sucking in air from somewhere before the pump or you still have air trapped in your filter that is slowly coming out. Have you bleed out the air from the top of your filter? Do you see an air pocket in the...

Alex, I would like to suggest another option that I am using on my pool. Have a look at a Pulastron Pump. It seems to be doing a great job of maintaining my FC without having to do a manual add everyday. I had the pump left over from another job and thought it might work, so I got a large 8...

I know that this is a bit off subject, but in the interest of trying to help clear the water in your pool, have you thought about looking on Craigslist for someone that is getting rid of their pool so that you might find a bigger sand filter or even a cartridge one from an aboveground pool. If...

cherylt327, Sure it will probably help but if you have a sand filter, you might want to try adding a little DE to it the help get the small stuff. I know it really made a big difference in my pool after a SLAM. You don't have any info in you sig. so it is a bit hard to tell if you have a...

Also remember the CYA is going to take as long as a week or more to fully show up in your testing. So, use poolmath to get close on the amount of stabilizer to add and just wait for a while to check it. Just pretend it is already there for your FC calculations in poolmath. Hope that is not too...

Ok, so pool math says to add 74oz to a 25000 gal. pool to take it from 8.2 down to 7.2. So, if you want add a quart of muratic to start with then run the pump for 30 mins to an hour and recheck to see how close you got before adding another quart. Then retest again in 30mins - 1 hr. and keep...

Most robots are not going to climb the walls on their own. If you can get by with just cleaning the floor and brushing the walls by hand, then you might find a lot of unit will do a good job for you. I personally have an Intex auto pool cleaner that does a great job on the floor of my 24ft round...

Yes I have one that I really am amazed by. I installed it on a 24ft round pool by building a few fittings to adapt to the thread size needed. I liked it so much I bought 2 more for parts, what do you know they worked too.:D LOL. Worth every penny just because I haven't had to vacuum since June...