Recent content by Jamann

Hy folks, while prepping for a party today, I went to fire up the pool heater. To my surprise, the RayPak wouldn't fire. Put it in spa mode, and it fired right up. Put the panel in service mode, flipped the switch on the heater on and put the thermostat to high, and same result. No fire in pool...

With OCLT results of 0, CC at 0 and sparkling clean water I am officially calling my first slam a success. I love this forum.

Evening folks, we recently came back from vacation to find out pool with a very fine layer of algae on the bottom. I tried just putting the FC back to normal, to very short lived success... so I just began the SLAM process. My question is for those folks with a spa built in. Do you SLAM your spa...

Great videos! Using the Speedstir, 25ml sample of water for the TA test. Took 24 drops, but the last few just took it deeper shades of red, if that makes sense. I did add pool chlorine right after testing, we are now at 5ppm. Lucked out and have a HASA vendor very locally, picked up more...

Pool chem 7/8 Fc-1.5 CC-.5 Cya-40 Ph-7.2 Ch-175 Ta-240 I replaced filters a couple weeks ago, and the pool is plastered. These numbers could easily be off, i As I am a novice. I am following the step by step instructions in the "Extended test kit instructions" thread. Thanks for all the input!

To clarify, I should lower my TA first? I picked up some calcium chloride today to get the CH up. I also picked up more conditioner to get the CYA closer to 50. I will add acid tomorrow to bring the PH down to 7.0. I'm guessing because of the alkalinity it will automatically drift back up, and...

Just added chemicals to the new water yesterday. Fc was zero, as listed about an hour after. Have yet to retest CYA after adding stabilizer. Fc-5 CC-0 Cya-0 Ph-7.5 Ch-75 Ta-280

As some of you may know, I just bought a house that came with my (potential) Dream pool. Well the water and maintenance was pretty well neglected, and upon refilling the plaster has started bubbling and chipping away in the shallow end. We had planned on a resurface, but thought we had at least...

Thanks! I drained everything except for the few inches the sump pump couldn't get, and am replacing it with city water.

Understood. Didn't realize I should test the tap water. I will post results tomorrow!

Hey all, so my pool has been drained due to sky-high CYA, and it is currently filling. My question is, what order, if any, should I add chemicals? Should I SLAM it right away? I appreciate your input!

Agreed. Going to pick up a pump t drain it hopefully tomorrow. Will see what the county has to say...

The water is crystal clear.

Also, it seems the previous owners exclusively used trichlor pucks for chlorine management... would explain the sky-high cya... I have disposed of them, as well as the 3 floaters.

Understood. I will call the county and see what I have to do to drain and refill.