Recent content by drummerdan

Just did this on my sand filter. Process worked great and yielded immediate performance increase in filtering. Thanks!!!

I'm having a similar problem. Hey Mark can you explain a bit more info this process please? I've never heard the term back flushing. Are you talking about putting a garden hose up the intake of the pump? Wouldn't that potentially lead to the wrong skimmer (ie. it might lead to the skimmer...

I've had CYA issues in the past as well and had to drain most of my 55k gal pool to get it back under control. Since my drain and refill Ive been using this stuff called Refresh. It's granular 73% cal-hypo without stabilizer sold in 25lb buckets. The pros are it is a strong chlorine source -...

Re: A couple of tips I thought everybody knew. Anybody got I use a butterfly net from the $1 bin at Target to clean out my skimmer before sticking my hand in. Had to come up with something after too many bee stings and spider bites lol

I was looking for chlorine tabs without trichlor. I have a 55gal pool and handling all the jugs of bleach gets old while I am moving to get up to shock value without increasing CYA. Homedepot had a 16lb pail of HTH yellow top pails for ~$55. The yellow top HTH are the line without trichlor...

First of all, MAJOR THANK YOUs to the Admins and contributors of this site. I've owned a pool for about 7 years now, and I'm finally making a dedication to learning the chemistry. This site has great down to earth articles that are easy to understand. Situation: 55,000 gallon pool turned...