Recent content by glasgal

I haven't been onboard, very hard last year. death in the family. Now am the pool girl. I can handle the testing and scrubbing but after swimming in a salt water pool and reading some on it, I would really like to try to get it done. Or, with daughter and son in laws help, do it ourselves. He...

Thanks for alerting me about the puck and untreated water we use. I reread a lot of information from years back and realize that math is certainly my my strong suit. The quart of chlorine I added was close to 2 q, what was left in the bottle and thought it would be OK with the puck overnight...

Thanks for the info on the speed stir. And also the whale brush. We are using the basic Taylor test kit with additional CYA and the Fas Dpd test. Didn't get a chance to read everything yet tho. Today's test results were FC 1, TC .5, PH 7.5, TA 100, Cya 25. The last one confuses me because...

Our irrigation water is surface water delivered by "ditches" that the miners used in the 1840's to get the gold out of the "rich soil" that eventually filtered down to you. We have a concrete storage tank that stores it, covered and a separate pumping system that transfers it to plants and pool...

Hello everybody: We have been following this great resource for sane pool maintenance for several years with moderate success or so it seems lately. Our pool is 40 yours old, we are in our 80's and the days sure seem to be getting shorter. Yesterday I spent all day brushing, cleaning up...