Recent content by farmingmama

Ok great! That's a good point DKT113. There will definitely be more bodies in there this week. I'd better do a refresher course here I think just in case. Thanks for the link Kyle. Thanks all for the quick replies :)

Oh sorry! The CYA is 40.

Hi everyone, I first want to thank you very much for this website. It has been an invaluable tool for us and with the recommended pool chemistry kit we buy, we have had absolutely zero issues with our pool since start up. I haven't been on here in a very long time and I'm sure this question...

Ok, thanks everyone for the great advice. I'll keep it in mind when trying again hopefully in a few days after the rain clears out. Haven't been able to try it yet due to lots and lots of rain but I'm not complaining, it could have been worse. Hoping all of the TFP community is safe after the...

Ok sounds good! Is it ok then to have the swishing and bubbling in the window where the pump basket is when I adjust the main drain valve closed? It seemed like the more I closed the main drain, the more the water bubbled and swished so I was afraid to close the main drain valve any more...

Ok, I'm going to show my complete newbie stripes here by asking what you mean by the "pad"? Sorry! We have two main drains. I think they are plumbed to the pad (do you mean the place where the pump and filter is all set up?) There are three separate lines with valves coming to the pump in our...

Hello everyone, This was our first summer with our new inground pool and every time I vacuumed I just didn't feel like it was sucking enough and took forever. Now that I'm doing the final vacuuming before closing this week, the issue has come up again and because we left the pool for a month...

Hello everyone. My name is Alicia and we've just had an inground pool installed. It's been up and running since July 30 and I just got my TF100 test kit 2 days ago. I stumbled upon this site before our pool was finished THANK GOD!! and was ready for the vultures at the pool store when the pool...