Recent content by DR Robert

What % of your total pool area do you have in solar panels. I plan on 200sf for a 288sf pool.

Thanks. That is the main floor. There is a lower level in the back under the master bedroom and living room area that is a basement and media room. Kind of an afterthought, but the slope of the lot makes it an easy build. Yes, it'll be fairly old school with some water color-altering quartz...

First of all, I'm, not a regular poster but have greatly benefitted from the group knowledge here. Now I want to give back. I live in a rented house in the town of Jarabacoa, 1800' ASL in the tropical central mountains of the Dominican Republic. We are routinely 7°F cooler than most of the...

This is an old thread I started a long time ago. I thought an update may be helpful. Originally, I complained about a terrible filtration in a 15k gallon pool that was poorly constructed, and with a sand filter about as bad as one could get. It took quite a while to get the chemicals...

It wasn't enough for .5, but more than zero, so a guestimate. More chlorine (tabs) added after the water test. I'll be getting several big jugs of liquid bleach this week. I vacuumed & backwashed the pool a while ago and must say it looks fantastic! - - - Updated - - - Hard to find DE here...

I paid close attention to your post. I went on tour for 4 days, and before leaving added a lot of chlorine (granulated) and soda ash. I was somewhat skeptical of what I'd find on returning. What I found was the cleanest pool I ever had here except for some debris the wind blew in. Zero algae...

Today's numbers, after rain last night that raised pool level about 2.5": FC: 3.5 CC: .5 TC: 4.0 CA: 50 TA: 110 CYA: 23 BTW: the pool looks great! Very clear, but I'll leave the bags in a little longer.

The local ferreteria said they could get granulated chlorine. Would this be better for a quick boost of TC and CYA? Better than household chlorine? The tabs take a long time to dissolve. How quickly would the granulated chlorine dissolve?

I'll do that this evening...

Today's numbers: FC: 5 CC: .5 TC: 5.5 CH: 50 TA: 120 CYA: 20 I've been trying to keep the chlorine up. All I have to work with are chlorine pucks and bottled household chlorine. My local ferreteria is going to get in some granulated chlorine. I've also been using a lot of algaecide and soda...

Yup, as best as I could.

I need to mention one unexpected result of these filter bags: the alter the water flow within the pool. I had algae pooling in specific spots that required constant sweeping.

(continued) NOTE: this is easy. I noticed with the SlimeBags cleaning is somewhat problematic. But we took the top ring off, turned then inside out, put it over a pole and sprayed it with water until clean. Note the tabs again. 4 cleaned, and back into the pool! The pool became MUCH...

Hola, all! It's been a month and I wanted to share my experience with DIY with my cheap-sumb!tch "micro-filter" bags. SlimeBag is a trademark, and I respect that. Recall I have an enormous amount of dead algae that just wont filter out no matter what I do. The chemicals can be within correct...

Good point. But this stuff is really fine. I mean when I've drawn a sample the water in the tube looks 100% clear, but left stagnant for a couple of hours accumulates on the bottom of the tube in a thin yellow/brown layer. Shake the tube, and the water looks clear again. We'll see. I have...