Recent content by Hudsongirl

Thanks for the reply! I've never actually seen it low before, it's usually the other way around so I'll need to grab some more Borax in the morning

Update: got salt to 3100ppm, gonna leave it here for now. Tested PH and it was low today (6.7) after adding CYA yesterday so I added 3# of Borax and it's at 6.9 right now (I have a digital meter that measures salt and PH, it is always in agreement with the liquid test and seems to have a more...

Tested Chlorine last night, was at 7ppm, this morning 1.5 hours after sunrise was at 6 ppm. I believe even though I overslept the sunrise that's a pass. Just added 2 more bags of salt (was at 2600ppm) which should bring us up to around 3100ppm. Will check CYA later today it should be a little...

Awesome, thanks! On to CYA adjustments after lunch. Looks like we'll be swimable in just a couple days!

Got test results today, almost a day out,- of course it's raining fairly hard right now. FC is at 9 today after adding 3 gallons of liquid bleach yesterday (should have brought it up to around 15 at that time) but CYA is below the 30 I can read on the test, so that makes sense. Salt was...

Just opened today and am very pleased considering we have a leaf cover, and I expected a fair bit of debris to make it through. There was a bit on the steps, mostly because we have 2 anchor points for the cover that aren't installed yet because they need to go into pavers This was my first...

Thanks, cell wound up looking good, left it alone. Equipment is up and running, well at least the heater and pump run, waiting for SWG. Glad I hired out the opening because one of my only 1 year old GFI outlets was shot and needed replacing and some tiny little piece that's like a back up...

I've been reading for a couple weeks trying to see if I have the methods straight. 18kG SW vinyl pool. We have a guy coming to open, mostly because hooking up the heater and plumbing stuff is beyond me for year 1. Water still looks clear when I peek, but it's a leaf cover so I'm expecting some...

Just popping in to say hey to a fellow HV resident and to say that filter socks do wonders in May when the pollen settles over everything here like a blanket. Really helped us from having to constantly clear up the cartridge filter. We're supposed to open ours tomorrow (hiring out because I'm...

That's good to know, I think we started with it pretty low, probably 2 feet below the top (we have a 4.5 foot water depth all the way across so even keeping it above half full we can take out quite a bit) but it sounds like I may have just lucked out that it made it to spring without needing...

I know it's late to be asking this but I'm wondering if I was misunderstanding pool water levels over winter. Our inground pool has a safety leaf cover- the kind that allows water through. We live in NY where there is lots of rain/snow. When the pool was winterized the water level was lowered...

Hudson Valley, downstate

That's good to know, thanks! I imagine that will depend a lot on what the weather does. We were waiting for install to finish last year so didn't heat until 2nd week of May, took about 3 days to get to temp then without the solar cover.