Recent content by DrHfuhruhurr

Thanks to both of you for the wonderful advice! I brought it to 7.4pH and 12ppm FC. I would have gone higher on the FC, but ran out of time before this morning. I bought some liquid chlorine to pour in over the next few days as needed. Quick additional question: Draining the pool for treatment...

CYA is somewhere between 40-50. I have a real tough time reading the Taylor test kit for CYA. Thanks for the advice!

Hi all, we are 2.5-year old pool owners who upgraded/remodeled our pool about 1.5 years ago. It is an in-ground, approx. 14k gallon SWG pool with pebble sheen plaster and an attached spa. There are a variety of pictures in the Media tab on my profile. The coping for the pool is some kind of...

I cleaned my SWG this weekend with muriatic acid, as the automatic reminder popped up last week. I also replaced all four cartridge filters from my filter (Pentair CCP420). It's the first time I've done it myself (after ditching my pool service earlier this year), but followed all the...

Aqua Blue with shimmering sea added. We wanted to go with a deeper blue (perhaps Blue Granite or Blue Surf), but our pool is only 5ft deep at its deepest point and those colors appeared more grayish in the shallows. We were also concerned about the Texas sun heating up the pool too much with a...

Part 3: Where's the Equipment? As requested, here are some pictures of the current equipment setup. I say "current" because I got a text from the builder today telling me he is having trouble getting the new Omni controller (Hayward) to connect to/communicate with our filter pump (Pentair)...