Recent content by donnaw

Thank you Thank you! Ok - I've got my CYA down to 90 after taking some water out and I've got most of the algae gone. I plan to take out some more water this week. Is there any harm in using the bleach w the pebblesheen finish? Donna

I'm still gasping thinking about draining the pool. If I switched to bleach from the tablets, would that be a more gradual return to better balance. If I'm reading this right, it sounds like these tablets aren't a good idea overall and would just lead to the same situation. Do I have this...

Ok, back with my numbers and some info: Free Chlorine 2.5 ppm Total Chlorine 2.5 ppm Combined Chlorine 0.0 ppm ph 7.4 Hardness 345 ppm Alkalinity 85 ppm Cyanuric Acid 100ppm I still have green on the swim benches. The one bench in particular has quite a bit. The spa has never really been a...

Ok, glad I checked my email. I'm headed out the door and I'll grab a sample of water to get tested. I'll post results later today. One thing that's been a little confusing is that the pool builder startup guy said we'd only need to keep the pool at 1.5 or so on the chlorine since we have the...

New to posting on the board and I'd appreciate any advise. We've got a 20,000 in ground pool with a sand filter and ozonator and pebblesheen finish. Over the last several weeks we've had green / black algae on the swim benches and sun shelf and one or two spot on the shallow end of the pool...

Your color combination is really stunning.