Recent content by donspublic

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    Bleach Prices 2014

    Lowes in north houston and the store off 10 at Blalock has the Kem-Tek 10% for around $3.70 a gallon
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    Pool has taken over my summer

    zea3, I see you are in Houston also. My concern is are there any issues draining a pool this time of year. If I need to drain a portion it, I am tempted to just fully drain it and acid wash it to get rid of all the black algae. There are also some darker blue spots where the sunstone pearl...
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    Newbie needs SLAMing advice, and how much sodium hypochlorite in Clorox Bleach?

    Darlene, I have just spent 1 hour going thru this thread. I am totally impressed with you and what you have done here. The extent of my wife's relationship to our pool is "are you going to take care of that or do we need to get someone out". I might pay for you to have a vacation in Houston...
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    Pool has taken over my summer

    Ok I have a salt pool and am tired of the thing going out and constantly costing me a fortune for parts. So I decided to switch to Chlorine. I made the switch at the beginning of summer after I had already brought the conditioning up to 60 CYA. Everything went fine until we went on vacation...