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Thanks! When I opened the filter, the seal was in very good condition and I was able to re-use it. Just re-conditioned it with some silicon plumbing lube and it went back in just fine. I also found that my filter had glass media rather than sand. Pool builder looked at it and said just a deep...

Where do you purchase O-rings from? I have PF-50 and just redid the back yard (replaced concrete deck with pavers; drained, chipped and now waiting to replaster the pool) and I want to clean out the sand filter before refilling the pool. The PF-50 still works but I had been seeing a gush of...

Thanks for your response, Abigail. Regarding not SLAMing, the day I came back from vacation and realized I had a green pool, I took in a sample to pool store and found out I had 0 FC. I purchased and dumped into the pool 6lbs of lithium hypochlorite (Burnout 35.) By next morning, I noticed a...

Thanks for the feedback! However, I saw this after already running my morning tests (about 14hrs after the last set of tests.) FC: 17ppm (no change from last night) CC: 0.5ppm (was 1ppm last night) pH: 7.4 (was 7.5 last night) TA: 100 CH: 200 (up from 140 last night due to my adding 11lbs of...

Ok, lots of progress made today: I got some DE from a local pool installer. They were willing to sell me 5lbs from their own stock but when I told them I needed just wee-bit, they gave me 3lb for free. :) K-2006 kit came in today and I ran the first tests: FC: 17ppm CC: 1ppm pH: 7.5...

Jerry, I am also battling my second algae bloom in two years. The first time I was pool-stored and I ended up wasting a lot of money and time mainly due to the high CYA (and the shock they sold me kept raising the CYA.) This time around, I almost followed the pool-store method of BurnOut 35 to...

Here is an update. The Kit is supposed to arrive today. I drained 1/3 of the pool are filled it up with city water. This lowered my CYA from 110 to 55. (Aqua quip did two readings and got 50 and 60 so I am averaging the two.) I also had them do a diluted FC test and they came up with FC 16 and...

I recently came back from vacation to discover a green swamp out in the back-yard. Apparently, either the folks who had promised to keep up the pool in my absence decided not to follow my instructions or they held frequent block parties (more plausible) in my pool. This is the second bloom I am...