Recent content by Howeman

I found your thread the other day and have been following, so happy you are making such great headway. you guys must be elated. I've learned a lot just by following your thread and others like it. thanks!

Hi JamesW. That cartridege IS nasty. I have since ordered 2 new cartridge filters as this one came with the house 3 years ago and not sure when it was new. I think I understand your question and am pretty certain the pump is plumbed correctly, I mean water is reentering the pool through the...

So jealous of these temps in the 80's! while picking up chlorine at wally world the other day I saw a neat little floating digital thermometer that I HAD to have. However all it has accomplished is to quickly let the rest of my family know that it is no where near ready for them to entertain...

So last night my FC was 18.5. This morning it was 15.5. I'm thinking there must be some algae then? I don't know my CYA as I am awaiting the reagent. Once I receive that, I will start a SLAM.

thanks Teald024. it WAS chloromax, no more of that! I bought some of the Pool Essentials liquid chlorine and will use that moving forward. I will also do a OCLT starting tonight. thanks!

thanks jblizzle. we have been getting ALOT of pollen lately, the yellow kind. almost looks like smoke there's so much of it in the air sometimes.

Howdy everyone, been a BBB'er for the last couple seasons. don't feel I quite have the hang of things but feel i'm getting better this year thanks to everyone on this site. however, finding some strange substance in my cartridge filter this year and some foaming of the water, which I haven't...

Hi folks, just registered with the forum. Hoping to learn a lot of great stuff. We are semi-new pool owners from Massachusetts, we bought a house that came with a pool two years ago and hacked around last year with the pool store to get our water right. This year I converted to the bbb...