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I use liquid chlorine to start the season and switch over to SWG once the water warms up. My pool has been open for three weeks and still using LC, plus having a few gallons to use up

Scoop them up with the net. Empty the net and go back and scoop again. Use a hairnet in the skimmer basket to help save on the cartridge filter when you get the pump running. Throw the robot in to clean what is still on the pool floor. Clean out the robot filters after the two hour run...

What would you recommend as “once in a awhile.” Yearly? Six months? Monthly? Weekly? I did a successful AA treatment and added Jack’s magic in October before closing for the winter. The pool is open now and looks good.

Spring rains will probably take care of it from the bottom of the skimmer to the middle.

I would leave alone for now. Higher water level will support the safety cover if/when the snow arrives. Can always pump some out later if it gets too high with a wet winter.

I always try to make sure to keep my water level below the cantilever coping in case it freezes. Yesterday was a warm day and I checked mine and it was in the middle of the skimmer. I lowered the water level to right below the bottom of the skimmer as we are suppose to get 1 to 3 inches of...

My fiberglass pool has been closed professionally since 2019. Water level has been right at the middle of the skimmer. Elbows and gizmos added to the two returns. Gizmo added to the skimmer. One gallon of antifreeze added to each of those three lines after they are blown out by the cyclone...

Same thing has happened to mine. I have gray skimmer faceplate.

Closing is scheduled for this Friday, Oct. 22nd. I added Poly 60 on Oct. 9th and did the treatment on the 10th. Starting raising the chlorine on the 11th. No issues after the treatment and iron is sequestered in the water. CYA is 30 and have been raising the FC daily back up to 5.5 of the...

Here is a view of where the vitamin c was applied. The first step is an AA treatment? Then followed up with a sequestration agent? Since my pool gets closed for winter I assume it would be best to do closer to the closing since FC should be lowered? Or do at an early spring opening before the...

When you say “manage the water” does that mean using an sequestering agent to keep the iron soluble in the water and not attaching to the pool? When does the filtering of pool water into with poly fill come into play?

It must be the elevated FC. I have kept my FC on the high range and actually above. First summer with SWG and my FC will drift up when don’t use the pool and being covered with a solar cover.

I am on well water, but have not added any well water within all of 2021 due to the rainfall this year. Unsure why it popped up now. Maybe it has been there and just now noticing more so since my water level dropping to previous levels. I’ve kept a couple of inches higher this summer thinking...

Moved from HERE My fiberglass pool just started having a similar coloration on the water line. Followed this thread and crushed up some vitamin c and placed in a sock. Rubbed along the waterline and the coloration faded. I assume it is iron staining?