Recent content by Lizt111

Re: Heavy rain + lots of dirt and mud = Brown Pool! Please h I'm no expert.... we went away last week and had a monster rain storm which washed tons of muddy dirt into our pool. It literally looked like river water :shock: . We did the brush, vacuum, backwash thing for 5 days with almost no...

We have an Aquabot vaccum. Is that going to be good enough or do I need to haul out the old hose and hook up the manual vac? This sure hasn't been a very fun pool season so far. :grrrr:

We were away for 2 days. Water was a beautiful blue when we left. I even put the SWG on boost because we were expecting storms. Well, we came home to a brown pool that was filled to the very top. I backwashed for 3-4 minutes, rinsed and then wasted tons of water. My FC is 3, pH is 7.4, CYA is...

We have a white fiberglass pool. I use Softscrub with bleach to clean the waterline. If you wipe it lightly with a Scotchbrite pad, it gets off most stains. I have waxed the outside area with boat wax. I'm sure any wax will do and it does help to protect the gelcoat. Now, metal stains on...

Thanks! I thought I might need to add the pucks if we were going to be gone for 2-3 days.

How many would you recommend adding if you were going away for a weekend? We have a SWG. Thanks!

Added bleach last night. Tested this evening. Numbers are: FC=19 (was 13.5) pH= 7 (was 7.3) *** Should we add Borax to raise?? TA= 75 (same) Calcium Hardness = 0 (was 30) Of course water is low, so now have to add some.... I know we need to keep adding bleach to get the FC up. Anything we...

What sequesterant would be best for a SWG? The way I know we have metals in the water is by doing a vitamin C test on the discoloration on the walls. I feel lost... I have read and re-read the Pool School and still get confused. What do you do to increase the calcium? Sorry for the newbie...

Have had pool open about 3 weeks now. Frustrating trying to clear it up this year. It is an 18x44 in-ground fiberglass pool with a SWG. Just tested with a Taylor K-2006 kit and these are the numbers = FC= 13 PH= 7.3 TA= 75 CC=1 Calcium Hardness = 30 CYA= 68 Walls are also brown. We have well...