Recent content by jimmyj126

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    Repaired lateral, now what to do with the sand.

    We had a broken lateral. It was repaired today but I still have 20-30 lbs of sand at the bottom of my pool. The shallow end we can sweep up most of it it dustpan, but the deep end it something else. Can we vacuum it back to the filter or to waste. Will it do any damage circulating thru...
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    Tips and Tricks

    Re: A couple of tips I thought everybody knew. Anybody got Starlings/Cackles,(birds)-When the young are born the mother constantly cleans the nest by taking the poop and dropping it into standing water-i.e. your pool. For the couple of weeks in the spring when they dive bomb our pool we found...
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    Help-losing my pool

    The store that put in the pool advised to add more shock this morning=that is why the second bucket was added. Here is what is on their printout from this afternoon temp 81 CYA 0 Free chlorine .6 ph 7.6 total alk 111 adju alk 111 total hardness 294
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    Help-losing my pool

    I have an I/G, vinyl, salt water (pentair), 30,000 gallon pool, sand filter runs 24/7. We left the house last Saturday morning everything checked out good. Our area received .07 or 7/100 of rain Saturday night. We got back Monday and the pool was cloudy. We dumped 2 gallons of Acid in it...