Recent content by kmwilli58

Will do, shocking now and already CC is down to .5. Anybody that uses puck should talk to me. I have been fighting this problem for 2 years now and thought I was doing the right things. Pool store had me doing phosphate treatments, changing water twice, algacides, change the sand in the...

Thank you!!!! Sometimes I am just a touch HARDHEADED, but I understand quite a bit more today than I did just 3 days ago. You can use algacide, but it can also cause problems. When you say in Pool School Chlorine is the best sanitizer you're not kidding. Changed out 1/2 the water and CYA is...

Changing 1/2 water out tomorrow afternoon and NO MORE PUCKS!! So you don't use algacide at all? Just chlorine and that's it?

Oh, sorry, yes I do use polyquat 60 algacide, 6 oz per week. But the foaming seems to really pick up when I add chlorine to shock. Last year when I added the lithium shock it was 1/2" thick and covered the entire surface of the water. I have definativly had much better luck staying away from...

Sounds like everyone agrees I need to get the CYA levels down. Is this why I see so many people on TFP with SWGs? Every brand of Trychlor, pucks or sticks that I check contains CYA. So I am getting the idea there are only 2 ways to control CYA. Either SWG or add liquid chlorine, or bleach...

Starting from the beginning, last season I had what I thought was some type of algae. Pool store kept selling me chemicals and talking about chlorine demand, nothing worked and finally I changed the sand in my filter and all the water. It helped and pool was clear until we pulled the cover back...