Recent content by grahadp

Hi guys, My pool liner is worn out--it developed a leak about half way down in the fall, and now I am undecided as to whether I should just fill in my pool. Nobody has used my pool for the past 5 years, but I'm not sure if I am ready to fill it in. I have been told it will cost between...

Just want to check in to see if I'm on track! Today, I am in day 19 of my SLAM. The water is still light blue (pretty) but very cloudy. I can see the top 2 built-in steps. Yesterday when I was brushing, I could vaguely see the brush scooting along the bottom of the shallow end, so I can say that...

Yeah I have the thingy at the bottom :(

TOO LOW? argh!! I looked it up in the beginning when my CYA was around 0 and I didn't realize I needed to adjust when the CYA went up!!! ARRRGHHHHHHH.. OK, I'm on it! Yes, I put the pole with the vacuum head in the water, then shove the hose straight down until there is water coming out of the...

OK...I'm on Day 8 of my SLAM. I've used 28 gallons of Liquid Chlorine (the 10% stuff from Walmart). My pool is not getting much clearer though...ever since the first round of shock, it has a milky look but a pretty light blue anyway!! I can see about 10 inches into it, but not clearly. Here are...

OK, thanks for the reply! Follow up questions: 1) Are you saying to maintain the FC level at 10 ppm up until I reach the point where it doesn't drop below 5 ppm ...and at that point I can add some cyanuric acid to bring the CYA up to 30? I was planning on using liquid chlorine bleach from...

Hi, I'm Debbie in Alabama and I've just started trying to work on my pond-like, frog-infested pool. I bought the FAS-DPD test kit at the end of last year, but I'm still learning what the test results are really telling me. Here are my results so far from a few minutes ago (remember, I just...

Hey "JustfillItIn" according to my calculations, if they are right, is that I need about 7 large (121 oz) jugs of Clorox to get it to shock level... but how can I estimate how many times I'm gonna have to do that? i.e. How do I estimate how much Clorox to buy??

OK I checked the CYA/chlorine chart and it says for CYA=60 I need 24ppm of chlorine to reach a shock level of chlorine in my pool. So then I use the pool calculator to figure out how much for my pool volume to get to 24ppm? and then dose the pool every few hours with enough to keep the shock...

Ok, I used the instructions you sent me and I got that my FC was 1.0 and my CC was 1.0. So I ran the numbers of all my tests into the pool calculator and I got a result that I only need about 2 gallons of liquid chlorine to get my FC up to 4. Is that where I want it to be to kill all that...

Hello everyone! I hope I am in the right spot--this is my first post and I have a nasty green pool and I don't know what all I'm doing wrong. :( I started my pump a month ago--didn't cover pool so it was dark green with frogs. I have scooped it out repeatedly and bottom seems pretty clean. In...