Recent content by kris77

Good morning! I've been on the fence for 3 years about getting a gas heater for my 24' round above ground pool. I think this year I'm going to do it. I've been reading about the different brands...Raypak, Hayward, Pentair. All seem to have horrible issues with support and rusting. Is there...

Hi all, I've been using the same bottle of R0013 for a few years now. Usually when I open my pool for the year my CYA levels are very low due to draining the water below the return and having to refill. This year however, I opened with a CYA of 40-50. My neighbor has the same pool as me and...

Deck is 6' tall where the heater will be. It's all pressure treated. I really don't want to put it under the deck, but I don't have much of a choice. I'll snap a pic and post it tomorrow.

I've finally decided this year to bite the bullet and get a new heater for the pool. I'm going with a Raypak NG 200k BTU model with electronic ignition. There are 2 models i'm looking at and didn't really know the difference in the Low Nox version vs the regular version. Links below...

Couple things for the OP... I started the TFP method 4 maybe 5 years ago. I had been a huge fan of the chlorine pucks in a floater my whole life. Every year around August, my pool would be green and I just couldn't get it right. Pool store would test my water and sell me $300 worth of stuff...

My winter cover is done. Last year the wind got under it and destroyed it. My pool has a deck around it. I'm thinking about getting a big 30x30 tarp and covering the pool and most of the deck around it. Is there really that much difference in a winter cover and an actual heavy duty tarp?

Just checked, FC is at 32 and CYA is at 45-50. All tablets dissolved. FC is slowly coming down.

So I went away on vacation and bumped my FC up in my hot tub. Then put a floater in there with a few 1" tablets in it. But when I got back, I realized i had misjudged the ammount of bleach i put in there. I should have put about 5-6 oz of 10%. I put about 10, then left a floater in there. I...

Reagents are brand new this year. Pool doesnt show any CC. So i think the reagents are good. I'll have to do some more testing when i get home and try and find the source.

So I just restored an older hot tub. I cleaned it 4 times with AhhSome. The first 3 times I had brown junk in the foam. The last time, i had nice white foam. So I assume its clean. After the 4th cleaning, the next fill I just couldn't get pH under control. It was always above 8. 2 oz of...

Update: Frame built. Tub cleaned. Everything is working good. Need to stain/paint the surround sometime and i'll have a brand new tub!!! Ahh-Some got some junk out of the old tub. This was the 3rd cleaning with it. First 2 were horrible. 4th one barely got any junk out. So i'm...

Do I need to take TA down to about 50 or 60? What about the Borates? You guys recommend Gentle spa. That will lower pH as well correct? Sorry for all the questions. I have my pool down to a science. But this hot tub is brand new to me.

New to me hot tub i just restored. I've done 3 ahh-some treatements the past 2 days. Rinsed it once, then last night i filled it and put some bleach and stabilizer in it overnight. Ran the jets 30 mins at a time for 3 cycles just to make sure everything worked correctly. Here are my numbers...

Any one in particular you recommend? Can i use a different one? Does it have to be this same one?

My hot tub heater just isnt doing the job anymore. It takes about 6 or 8 hrs to heat a 250 gallon tub from 70 to 90. I was thinking, if I could replace it with something better and more economic I would. But can you even do that??? The heater i have now is this... 5.5 kW Gatsby and Blue...