Recent content by labhaven

At the moment, there is ice around the perimeter to support the side walls. All the water has completely drained out so adding water is not an option for me. I'm thinking it was a blowout towards the bottom because when I walked around the back side, one section of gravel was very mushy like...

I have a 30' round that was properly winterized. The pool is only a few seasons old and was professionally installed. All was well until about a week ago when the air pillow started to "disappear". I thought it had popped. We have had the severe cold weather and snow and the pool is out away...

I closed my AGP last weekend. This has been my first season of pool ownership. I've had a great summer with the pool using the BBB method. I balanced out the water properly, brought it to shock level, and added algaecide prior to closing. My concern is with the water level. The pool store...

I'm a new pool owner this year. I found this site before the pool was installed and decided BBB was the way to go for me. I shocked once the first week the pool was in (first week of May) to get the water cleared up. Since then, I've used my TFP test kit daily, the pool calculator and...

Yep, snow. I must have looked silly out there today with a winter hat, coat and gloves vacuuming the pool! I wanted to get all the leaves and crud from the storm out of the pool. FC dropped to 2 overnight with .5 CC so I checked out the Pool Calculator and added 3 quarts of bleach. Now that...

Thanks poolmom. I'm going to start relying on my own test results now. Today should be a fun day. We had severe sustained winds all day yesterday and pretty heavy winds again today. I turned the pump off last night because of all the wind-shredded leaves making it into the pool and filling...

Interestingly, the pool stores figures are quite a bit different than mine were with the TFP test kit. I also tested the chlorine and pH with strips and my results were the same so I'm not having much faith in the stores tests! Here are what the pool stores results were in comparison to mine...

I think I'm getting there with my numbers and BBB :-D This mornings TFP test kit results: FC 7 CC 0 TC 7 PH 7.2 TA 140 CH 220 CYA <20 (tube was full, could still see the black dot) Water temp: 62 I think the water is looking much much better after the shocking and addition of the Sequa Sol...

I had about 12-18" around the perimeter of my AGP after the install last week. The installer recommended I backfill around the pool with the dirt that was removed and have it slope away from the pool. Grass side up if I wanted sod, dirt side up if I want to lay down landscape fabric and mulch...

So I've done the following: Added 32 oz GLB Sequa Sol for the copper 2 hours after adding the Sequa Sol, shocked the pool with 5 gallons of 12% liquid chlorine 12 hours after shocking the pool, added 5 lbs of pH Down I did not add the CH I did a chlorine test and came up with the following...