Recent content by kat.hayes

ouch... Thanks.

I have a 27,300 gallons / IG / Plaster pool and am dreaming of extending the pool about 10-ft to make it an infinity pool so it stops close to the end of my backyard/hill. I realize that there must be lots of variables involved with doing this, though can someone give me a guess as to the price...

I'm thinking of resurfacing my pool at some point in the future and am looking for some advice on going with a a dark vs. light surface. I'm guessing that a light blue surface will make my water appear bluer while a darker one will not, though the darker one will retain more heat and keep it...

My CYA is high and I just talked with him about it, and removed my floater with Trichlor tabs based on this forum, so if he used some type of chlorine that includes Trichlor I will not be happy....

He specifically said it was chlorine...What do you mean it has an available chlorine by weight in the 90% range? Are you saying it is chlorine or trichlor?

hahaha I thought that seemed way high compared with what I have. My pool guy is the one who told me about it, and he told me this is what he uses, and he told me where to go get it, so I'm going to go check and see what they are really have for sale....I will just add this as another reason I'm...

Someone just told me about a local pool store that sells 95% liquid chlorine. I'm currently using 10%. 1. Is it a bad idea to use liquid chlorine with 95% chlorine for any reason? 2. Won't a liquid chlorine of 95% have less salt to leave behind? Thanks.

Can someone please tell me what type of algae this is? http://imgur.com/LZGor0b Thanks.

1. How does this chlorine that I just picked up from Home Depot look for daily use and for shocking: http://imgur.com/DFFDtRF 2. Sorry, I'm still confused by the calculation. I know this must be real obvious, though I am missing something here... 70 x 0.7 = 49 ... replace 30% My CYA = 70 Where...

1. Do you use the same liquid chlorine to shock the pool as you would use daily to maintain your FC levels? 2. How do you know when it is safe to use the pool after shocking? What measurements or what indicators do you look for? Do you just want to get back to equal to 0.5 ppm? 3. How did you...

1.) Is 1.5 gallons a day a reasonable amount to have to put into my pool everyday? If my CYA was lower I would need to put in less, right? Does it make sense to even consider draining some water? Are there other benefits to having the CYA lower besides not needing to maintain as high of chlorine...

My water looks reasonably clear, though there seems to be bits of some type of algae in different parts of the pool. As far as I know, the pool is plaster, though I am including a link to a pic for someone else to verify and also check the water appearance. http://imgur.com/ySZN9Kg 1. My FC is...

I kept adding drops of R-0009 until the color stopped changing and I multiplied this by 10. If this one seems off, I will try again. And it was clearly a math error, meant to say 80 :-) Thanks everyone.

All of my tests: CYA = 70 TA = 80 PH = 7.6 CH = 620 FC = 2.5 CC = 0 Can anyone please give me some advice based on these results? Thanks

What is considered a full set of test results? Thanks.