Recent content by Grendel2000

This sounds like what I struggled with for years until this year, and I did exactly what you’re doing: SLAM the heck out of it. Still didn’t fix it. I’ve come around to believing it was pollen FWIW and the only thing that’s successfully dealt with it is my new robot that has extra fine filters...

Thanks! My pool is rectangular not oval, so I think I'm close on volume, but I very much appreciate your help!

Is there any reason or advantage to dumping some water to lower the CYA level a bit? I could save on some chlorine I guess. Or should I expect the CYA number to drop over the next week since I only added the stabilizer yesterday? It definitely overshot where I wanted it to be 45 or so)…

Heh - thanks!

Ok, morning test results: FC - 7.0 CC - 0.5 PH - 7 TA - 60 CYA - 65 Temp - 67 deg

I'll do that in the morning - thanks!

I own and ordinarily use a Taylor K-2006 test kit. I hate the CYA reading's subjectiveness so I was lazy today and went to the local pool store (good eye!). Today is literally the first time I've had them test my water in probably five years - I had a ton of issues in the first few years of...

I opened my pool nine days ago (vinyl above ground rectangle - 16 x 32, 15400 gal). I replaced my sand filter & pump before opening the pool and I purchased both a Active 20 robot vacuum and a Betta 2 solar skimmer which have been alternating doing their thing pretty much 24/7 along with...

UPDATE: All in all I'm satisfied. My pool is looking great, although it has definitely taken more cleaning cycles than I'd hoped for to get there. To be fair, it's spring still more or less - the trees around and above my pool are still shedding quite a bit of crud so it may very well be less...

Thanks!

Got it - thank you!

The water is quite cold - my thermometer isn't in it, but it's cold. I'll take it out and check it over again for any non-removed packing materials, but it seemed functional.

Thanks! Also, what's the scoop with people saying they store them so that the brushes don't touch anything? Do they go bad, or deform somehow? How do people go about doing that?

I just received a new Active 20 I bought from Marina and have a few questions: - A card insert in the literature mentions removing a film from the "climbing wheels". Mine doesn't appear to have any. is it safe to assume this card is for a different model? - I ran it through a cleaning cycle...

We own a 16x32 Kayak above ground pool with a deck extension (aluminum) of around 10 ft off of one short edge and about a 2' deck surrounding the other sides. Overlooking the pool we currently have a screened in porch and also a 12 x 16 deck at a heigh approximately 6' above pool deck level...