Recent content by Kellyp

Do you have freeze protection to turn on your pump when Temps get low? This will be the 5th winter I've had a pool and I've never closed, nor had any problems. My equipment is in a pump house that stays fairly warm, but I do worry a bit more since the big freeze in Texas! I know a lot of people...

I would make them fix it. Two feet is a huge difference. There is nothing the grandson and I love better than diving down and swimming around the bottom of the pool. I only went 6 feet deep, that was a mistake. If you wanted 8, I don't think you'll be happy.

I run mine just high enough to let the swg work, 1200 rpm, and let it run round the clock. I keep this schedule year round since though it gets too cold to swim, the pool stays open through the winter. When the swg stops working due to cold Temps, I add chlorine manually, but don't need much in...

Well, it seems obvious that your salt water chlorine generator is not creating enough chlorine to overcome the algae, so, yes, add more to keep it at bay until you can test properly.

The only thing salt will do is make them retain water, am I right ladies?

I'm in the north Atlanta suburbs. I've never closed. When the leaves fall, I scoop them out for about 3 weeks and empty the skimmer baskets daily. After that the only thing in there are wolf spiders so i tend to not check them more than once a week. I don't run my robot again until spring. As...

Dept, everyone has you well covered on the topic of eradicating algae. I'm gonna weigh in to say I have 5 indoor cats currently. I tend a colony of 12 ferals who decided to live on my back porch 12 years ago, they drink out of the (salt) pool every day. I haven't ever had algae, and all of the...

Gunite for me, no question.

Welcome to tfp, start here: Pool School Come back and ask any questions you have. You'll love having a trouble free pool!

Doh, bromine. Glad you caught that, not sure how I missed it! Apologies poolin!

Welcome to TFP. That looks like algae. Do you have one of the test kits that TFP uses to make recommendations? The TF100 from tftestkits.net or the Taylor K2006C, available from Amazon. With one of those kits in hand, you can perform an overnight chlorine loss test. If you lose more than 1ppm...

Thanks all, and especially Kimkats, I'll show your reply to my daughter, she was pretty proud of that one!

Daughter snapped this one, she has a much better eye than me!

Hi Dannym, I think most of us are pretty busy with work, family etc. Home testing takes literally 10 minutes. Much less time than running to the pool store. There is no need to shut your pool down for 4 days, as long as your chlorine in between minimum and slam level for your CYA, you can...