Recent content by jellybean7

I will post pictures this evening.

I've been struggling with what I think is pine tree sap in our pool for a while now. The filter can't seem to get it out so I've gone through 2 bottles of floc, waiting 24 hours after each one and vacumming to waste. Each one helped, but once the gunk on the bottom is stirred up with the...

Thank you,that all makes perfect sense. And yes, the water is clear. I knew there was a reason why I stopped going to the pool store! :rant: I'll keep monitoring the chlorine levels as I have and just add bleach as necessary. As always, thank you everyone for your help!!

We have no pets, just 2 kids and small gatherings of people. We do have a lot of chipmunks and frogs in the yard and some tend to get in the pool and drown. I've not found anything dead in the pool in the last couple of weeks though. Haven't thought about something getting stuck in the drain...

I stopped at the pool store today and the guy suggested that we might have an ammonia problem. Never really thought about it and i didn't have a water sample with me at the time to test it. what do i do with an ammonia problem? is there a way to test for it at home?

It's been pretty warm and sunny the last couple of weeks. Once the FC gets to around 1, I add enough Clorox to bring it up to around 5. If the tablets are not dissolving fast enough to replenish the chlorine, what is the best option? Should I add a second floater?

I use the TF100 test kit and test chlorine and pH daily, everything else weekly. CYA has remained around 40 for weeks now. I use Clorox whenever I need to shock the pool, otherwise I use trichlor tablets I got at Costco. I know not all pool chemicals are created the same, but I was hoping...

Over the last two weeks we started to lose chlorine in the pool. We have a floating chlorinator that had been keeping the chlorine level around 5, and I've been testing daily and weekly. Two weeks ago our pool turned milky overnight and the chlorine dropped to 0. I was able to clear up the...

Thank you for your very quick reply. I'm going to shock to pool now, but should I also get an algaecide, or just wait and see what the shock does?

Since we cleaned up our swamp about a month ago, we've had perfectly balanced, crystal clear water. I did a full test 3 days ago and all the numbers were in range. Daily pH and chlorine tests on Wednesday showed 7.5 and 6ppm. We woke up this morning to a completely opaque, milky white pool...

Awesome, thank you! We ended up cleaning up our pool the old fashioned way, but for $50 this is definitely worth having around.

Definitely get a good test kit. We got the TF-100 based on Pool School recommendation and it's awesome. Keep shocking and run your filter 24x7. It may not seem like your pool will ever clear up, but it will. Keep an eye on the filter too and backwash it often. We just finally got our swamp...

I just wanted to send a big 'Thank You' to this board. A little over 2 weeks ago, in a new house as new pool owners, we opened our pool to a flooded muddy mess. We didn't know the first thing about pool maintenance, let alone something as challenging as cleaning up a swamp. We spent the first...

Thank you. I'll take a picture when I get home later today and post it.

Hmmmm ... I looked at the manual (thank you for the link!) and my pilot is not there. If I follow the metal tube from the control, it goes behind the panel with the round holes on it. (sorry for the terrible description) There is no way for me to see the pilot without taking the heater apart.