Recent content by heather.wallace

Go with moss rock. Much cooler and original.

CCISD? To test for calcium, you can also use vinegar (safer than muriatic acid). I'd also dissolve the unknown in distilled water and test the resulting pH. (Don't use a pool test kit for this, use Universal pH paper or a pH probe....if CCISD, you can borrow a GLX pH probe from any of the...

In our gunite pool (Houston), we had an "overflow drain" put in. It is basically acts the same as the drain in your bath-tub when the water gets too high. When it rains too much (or too quickly), the water (and unfortunately all the chemicals) go out the drain. The pipes are tied into the...

You could probably try to determine what each "propietary" ingredient is....there's only so many chemicals that the industry uses in pools. When reading through some of the "avoid this" "reacts with this" and "may produce this", I suspect that one ingredient is copper sulfate and another is...

Most of us that have these items have gunite pools.....not vinyl lined. (Sorry, we may not be familiar with the products available for lined pools.)

Make sure you "fill" the chlorinator with pool water (open the valve) before closing the lid. If not the water will flow through the bottom without passing over the chlorine tabs. Fill the water to the top to make sure that the water exits down through the tabs. Then wait. If working, the...