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With a deep AGP/small kids, if you take the ladder away the kids can't climb in, so this can be a good safety advantage too.

I must be lucky - I test every day but usually I only add bleach every other day and never go out of range, 2-4ppm at CYA 30 I have even left the pool completely unattended for 3 full days, topped up CL to about 5ppm before I left and it was still over 2ppm when I got back The pool gets sun...

Welcome to the forum! Are you in Northumberland UK?

+1 for a rest of the world section Thanks to the great info on this forum, and some very specific advice from the ever helpful mods I have kept my very first pool 100% trouble free for two seasons :) But it does take some investigation to make use of TFP wisdom outside the US. For example I...

Welcome to the forum Basil! My summer pool last year was exact same size as yours, it's a wide shallow pool so the CL loss is high at about 4-5 ppm per day when the weather is 30C Using the cheap 1.5% tesco value bleach we get here in the UK that's about 1.2 - 1.5 liters every day for this...

The PVC fountains are used to help with adjusting TA, but there are plenty of ways to adjust TA without a fountain so you don't need a fountain as such - think of it as an enhancement not a necessity

I had real bad Ph bounce due to high TA when I first filled my pool, was adding MA twice a day to start with Test daily and use poolmath to calculate correct MA dose - keep a note of this and you will see that as the TA drops the MA additions get smaller and further apart, until you get to a...

+1 for get a sand filter, you won't regret it! Worth looking for a used filter/pump set on craigslist, ebay etc. I got a Emaux FSF350 filter & pump set in perfect condition for about $100, even came with plumbing to fit my pool as a bonus! Just needed a deep clean and was good to go (would have...

There are a few threads about the multicylone on TFP, do a search Consensus seems to be that they do work - a poster was even complaining that the Muticyclone was catching the DE powder before it got to the sand filter

I'm in Europe so perhaps we have different model numbers - but I'm sure you have a better choice locally than we have over here I guarantee you will wonder how you coped without a vac - I lasted about two weeks before getting one, then had to upgrade the pump & filter too +1 for trading up to...

Welcome to TFP - you won't find a better place for advice - good call reading up before getting started! Got my first pool last year, had perfect water all season and didn't have a single issue I couldn't deal with easily thanks to the helpful folk on this forum

I have bestway vac set 58236, came with a bunch of different size adapters that screw direct onto the side outlets not sure if they are the same size as Intex 2500gph pump should be plenty for suction - I have a sand filter but it's only 1000gph setup and works perfect with the vac Regarding...

FAS-DPD test is very expensive ($200+ for K2006 or Lammotte 7022!) and hard to find in my part of the world (England) which is strange considering the test was originally developed here by Dr Palin (as in Palintest) I use only DPD tablets and a comparitor and have had no problems, albeit only...

Isn't the elephant in the room CYA 80? (OP didn't mention a SWG) I think the trick to minimizing FC loss is to try to match CYA level to the individual pool i.e. sun exposure, surface vs depth etc. Obviously cleaning/backwashing and removing organic debris promptly (leaves, dead insects etc.)...

Borrates do a great job of keeping bugs away from the pool altogether I used to get lots of dead flying bugs each evening and it was a daily chore to fish them all out (I don't have a skimmer) but after adding 50ppm Borax there were no bugs at all, don't know how this works but it does!