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Everyone figured out the magic that is liquid chlorine! Thankfully I was able to order 10 bottles from a Menard's in OH and my girlfriend's sister lives near the store. She's coming up Wednesday anyways to visit so I did a store pickup and she'll just pick it up for me. That should last me...

I'm in the very NW corner of PA near the OH border. The closest Ace hardware is in OH as far as I can tell, if things get really bad I could drive out there.

Absolutely no pool chlorine at 3 different Walmarts in NW PA (pucks or liquid). There are bags of shock but they are extremely overpriced. I haven't seen any at Home Depot or Lowes either. I have a month supply of a mixture of 4 bottles of 12.5 and gallon jugs of regular bleach, but I'm...

I pick up 7-8 bottles of the Pool Essentials every 2 weeks when I go grocery shopping and use about 1/2 a bottle a day. One tip - check the label to make sure you're getting the "freshest" chlorine based on the born on date. Easy way on the Pool Essentials bottles is to check the 3 digit date...

I second this, it's a spot that you may not check often especially when you brush the sides of the pool

Once the water got pretty clear I brushed and vacuumed again and then popped in the new filter. Overnight it made it super clear! I think we're almost ready to swim :cool: We're leaving the solar cover on for a few days to soak up the heat we'll be getting this weekend, and either Monday or...

Also is this just a PVC pipe hose? Primered PVC only takes about 20 mins to seal after applying bonding cement, it should be a 30-45 min fix if you want to just cut it and use 2 couplings. Make sure they're pressure rated not normal house plumbing! Pressure rated PVC couplings are slightly...

If all else fails you could bottle it up and sell it to some gullible people as "raw water" for $5 a pop! :laughblue:

I often wonder how well a pool store would do if they just used TFP's methods. Without selling a bunch of chemicals and only the basic things (equipment, filters, chlorine, CYA etc) and telling people just to use liquid chlorine would they even make money? ? Especially when people would realize...

Thanks! It's hard to find reviews on them but I can tell you that after 4 full days of running the pump my pool is way clearer than what it was when I took the cover off. It has to be moving lots of water, and when I put some stabilizer in an old tied off shirt near the jet it was moving pretty...

I second, third, and fourth the advice that you're getting here. As far as a pool store goes, in my experience they might think they're being helpful but 99% of the time they want to sell products. The first pool guy we had come out to our swampy pool just dumped 2 bottles of chlorine and 2...

Good thing I got some TFP cards when I ordered new reagents ;)

When I closed it, the pump had died so I had to drain it with a submersible pool cover pump. But I drained it below the jets, took the jet covers off and then put a Shop Vac in the return line (using the exhaust port) and blew them out. I then put on the caps. I didn't use antifreeze though. I...