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Travertine definitely holds up better; we have Limestone from Egypt (much denser than in US), soaked it in Dry-Treat 40SK; and we still did not feel comfortable subjecting it to salt water. We were told to retreat the fountain, carved out of one large Limestone, every year with the 40SK. So...

Believe me, that was our plan, but we spent too much money on natural stone to have it ruined by salt, especially with zero edge, water is always ending up on the coping. No way I can count on anyone to rinse off after every swim. Also, the fountain, no way risk that getting damaged. We saw...

I am really interested in putting in the intellichem, liquid chlorine and acid. I do like to go out of town, so not having the pool looked over worries me; and even though the auto systems do require maintenance, I think I could get away checking it, filling the acid with max strength(last...

@Mdragger88 I have a natural stone fountain in the pool as well as all natural stone coping, we used the stuff that Australia folks use for their stone treatment, but in the end, we decided not to go with salt; too many pools we looked with salt had a lot of etching. Not worth the risk for...

Not a test kit, and I know you know. :) The store guys are good, their numbers are consistent and when I do my test, they are close, within a drop kind of deal. So, I use them out of convenience. There are three employees that do the test, and I watch them closely. Also, the TA is not...

I just lost my argument with the guy, and he ended up adding more bicarbonate. Well, I am going to keep taking data, and I need to have a meeting with the owner of the maintenance company as I do not agree at all with how they are maintaining the pool. The guy that comes over, has instructions...

New plaster pool, and the pH keeps rising to 8.2, it just loves it there. So, I am thinking about keeping it there; between 8 and 8.2 (in the winter and when ready to swim, temp at 74, keep pH around 7.8) FC .38 (I know it is low, and I do have UV) CC .24 pH 8.2 TA 100 (pool maint decided to...

My pool, but I was told I got "too involved" and had to back off with all my questions/concerns/equipment handling. I was told there are only a couple of companies that can even maintain my pool and that it would be in my best interest that I do not get on their bad side as they will drop me...

So, on schedule, I can just set the stop time to 8am and it will run 24/7 no problem, correct? Guy will have a fit when he finds out I am changing his programming, so need to make sure it is right. Thanks!

Hi Chris, to schedule running 24/7, do you set here the start time and stop time as 8:00 AM? My builder put in 7:59AM, stopping it for one minute, his explanation was in case prime is lost it will reprime itself. Does that sound right?