Recent content by DrRadar

Scrubbed the pool well Tuesday night, including the skimmer wells and the automatic chlorinator well. Finally, Wednesday evening the pool was much clearer but was still not holding the SLAM chlorine level. I had to add 12 cups of 10%. That clouded the water. Continuing to research my issue, I...

I'm drinking the Kool-Aid but... Pouring a bunch of liquid chlorine in daily. Drops some overnight and looks a little clearer, charge it back up. Drops a lot during the day and looks cloudier. Charge it up. And the pH continues to rise to about 8.0 and needs to be reduced. By the way, when...

I feel like we only talk when I have a problem. ;) Like many others that have posted recently, I have been fighting cloudy water for over a month. Currently doing a SLAM but have some other questions that may relate to my problem. My logs including my notes are at PoolMath Logs. The most recent...

Closing the loop on my problem. We survived into summer 2023 but then tiles started falling off. I had several contractors in to inspect and propose solutions. The contractor we went with said he could repair the coping and tile for a reasonable cost. But once he got into it, he learned the...

It is Diamond Brite. Color is light blue...I'll have to look up the official color name. (Sorry for delayed response. Been fighting covid.)

Thank you, Allen. That information will help me in conversations with contractors. One more: Is working on the two-year old plaster a major concern? If it is damaged, can it be repaired properly while the pool is empty? (I guess that's two. ;)

One pool company has recommended re-doing the coping and tile. The rep said it would be easier to replace the tile than grind and re-grout the existing tile. Their estimate to do that is more than what we paid less than 2 1/2 years ago to re-plaster and tile. Chalk that up to inflation?? The...

Thanks for the reply, Allen. I'm a fairly handy guy but I haven't worked with tile/mortar much outside of shower tile repair and cementing fence posts. To do the job properly/adequately, is patching (pressuring something into the existing cracks) a reasonable approach or is it grinding out the...

I have a problem with the tile grout at the waterline. I'll describe what I'm seeing (with pictures!), what I did, and then the recent history. As illustrated in picture 1, there is some kind of build up on the grout that is above the waterline, but not below the waterline (with one exception...