Recent content by lauraneal72

The pool is looking good today. Finally, I'm winning the algae war! When it is time to add DE to the filter, can I add it through the skimmer? For some reason I was thinking I had to open the filter and that just seems silly now that I've thought about it a little while. I know there's an...

This is what I want to see, just for comparison.

I took a picture and from the balcony on our upper level, bright sunlight on it, and after I swept, it does look better than it has. I think I'm winning, it's just so slow. The deep end is a dull green and I can barely see the bottom if I look really hard. The thing that worries me most is that...

I retested CYA and it's between 50-55, so about what I thought. I don't test for CC now. It's been .5 or less every time I check it anyway.

I have been testing morning and night for FC and honestly if I have to test more often than that, I might go crazy. It does occasionally fall below 20 ppm to maybe 18, but then it's back up to 22 when I add the gallon of 10% bleach. I've effectively done SLAM this way in the past. I will try to...

UPDATE: I've been doing the SLAM protocol on my pool since the evening of the 18th with very little, if any, visible difference. The algae is still bright green, the filter has been running nonstop, I'm keeping the chlorine at 20 ppm, I'm sweeping, it's costing me a lot, and I've just about had...

I have followed the SLAM process earlier this season and still got algae back. I will SLAM again with liquid chlorine that I will pick up today. I am so tired of having my pool at shock level or green more than half of this summer. - - - Updated - - - Does anyone think it could be a problem...

I haven't used a copper algaecide since 2013. I use polyquat 60 for algaecide, except for one bottle of something else not copper based this year. My husband grabbed it and I haven't looked at it closely to determine what it is. The water is cloudy with algae now, but when it starts growing...

I had no idea the calcium based shock had cya in it too! That's why it's getting so high. We've had to shock it so many times! - - - Updated - - - I suppose the FC could have been low at some point, but the last week or so it has been above 3 consistently, and last night it was at 10 with...

I have done that this season a couple of times, but it still comes back. I suppose I need to raise the chlorine level now because my CYA is higher than I thought. But it was 30 a few weeks ago when I did it.

Hi Everyone, I have been a member of this forum for a few years and have owned our home with this pool for over five years now. I am really struggling this year with keeping the algae out. I can get the water clear and looking nice, but within three days it will start coming back. That is after...