Recent content by Jameshowison

Makes sense. On it.

Vinyl above ground pool. Question on whether SLAM is finished. OCLT and CC tests are passing. Pool looks clear. Yet when I brush the floor I can see puffs of brown/maybe dark green stuff, minor compared to before SLAM, but still there. Using DE in sand filter and it is reducing. For deciding...

Good to know. I’m going to take it to the hazardous waste drop off!

Mine is Maxblue from pool time. Bought at Home Depot in Texas. Writing is small but I got me glasses :)

Hah, tried this. Won’t do it again. Horrible to load, chlorine smells terrible, risk dropping it everywhere. Sock developed a large hole along a seam overnight. Socks were good before, so I think the chlorine ate them. That meant granules on the bottom of the pool anyway. Total fail. Hand...

My CYA is at 60ppm. I'm trying to get it to 80ppm as we have a happy new SWG (intex). It's an above ground pool and we don't have a skimmer. I used a bottle of liquid gold to get it to 60ppm. I don't particularly want to buy another bottle (especially as quite a few threads suggest adding...

Yup, that is one pretty chunk of aluminum :) Maybe tftestkits should sell the pipettes as an accessory.

If, like me, you enjoy using a speed stir, you might also enjoy using a giant pipette to get your 10ml samples. Beats bending over to stare at your test tube, then trying to remember whether meniscus goes up, down, or even happens on plastic. Plastic from which the scale is coming off anyway...