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I have 3 wonderful "bucket prints" where my installers rested their 5 gallon pales during construction. I only see them at night with the pool light on or when dirt happens to settle there. As bmanb2b says don't sweat it. You get used to it and none of your guests and family members will...

I am in Long Island too and my neighbor and I had identical 20'x40' pools built at the same time. He had a gas heater installed I opted for a heat pump. I didn't want to go through the hastle of running the gas line and having keyspan install a larger gas meter. After 4 years of running my...

A big thanks to all who posted and gave advice. I have been running my pool for over a week now with chlorine (bleach) and it has never been cleaner. Even though the water looked clear it took a few more days for the organics to come out of solution and die. They were easily vacuumed up and...

OK Thanks for all the words of support & encouragement. I did it. Ecosmarte no-longer. I removed the cell, Drained 2/3 of the pool and refilled it, added the Metalfree and purchased the TF-100 and went to pool school. This is where I am now.... The pool went from green on the bottom to a...

Yes I can add the baking soda to raise the PH. Ecosmarte says alkalinity is unimportant therefore I don't even have a test kit. As far as shocking, from what I understand if I try to shock it with Chlorine I will "shock the copper out of solution" ?

This is my 4th summer with my pool. When I had it built the dealer recommended Ecosmarte for a wonderful Non-Chemical pool. However he failed to tell me that I would have to put in 10x the amount of work as my neighbor who was going to use chlorine in his new pool. Over the past 4 years I have...