Recent content by lovlilynne

Hi, sorry, I did not see your reply, and I have been busy with work. When I say chemistry is great, I mean that all the numbers are in the recommended ranges - of course I don't have the results from then. I chlorinate with pucks in a floating device that I have tied to my ladder so that it...

So, update - pool water is still blue. Cartridges still covered in smurf blue stuff. When I take them out, my hands are covered with blue chalky substance. When I rinse them, there are particles - looks like the size of granulated chlorine (which I don't use) but blue - that are rinsed out...

Thank you. So just keep doing what I'm doing? No TSP cleaning? Pool liner looks great so far - no staining. FC is at 10, so not going to do SLAM My daughter would be happy to have green hair ;) Life lesson: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Water was beautiful before this.

On Friday, 7/12, my brother dumped a half gallon of algaecide (HTH Algae Guard) in my 11.5k above-ground pool that doesn't have algae. A few hours later when the kids started swimming, my pool turned into a bubble bath. Even though the algaecide was non-foaming, I read online that if you don't...

Thanks BoDarville. I am not following the pool store method or the TFP method, I guess you'd call it the "lovlilynne" method :-) I just want to get water tested at pool store (for free) to see if they come up with same # - or even similar - to what I've been getting with strips. I know that...

Today the pool looks the best it ever has - there are no spots on the bottom at all. Yesterday I cleaned out the pump basket and put the filter on 1/2 drain and 1/2 skimmer. There is some debris on the bottom, but no fine stuff, it's more like the picture in the upper left above. Test strips...

Some photos from this morning. Clockwise from lower left: The skimmer basket from ~5 PM Friday - 10 AM this morning, Close up of debris, test results from this morning; picture of the clear pool water, extreme close up of the piles.

Today, this morning, the pool has just minimal piles - really few and small - almost not sure if they are a pile or the micro pine cone things that have been dropping into the pool sunk to the bottom. There is, however, bigger stuff - true debris, that has collected near the bottom drain (which...

You're probably right that there are many more successes than failures - people tend to post about their problems, not when they don't have any problems. But, it's the failures that scare me. Seven of the the first 10 posts in that forum are from people who have not been able to get the SLAM...

Ok, so I got the new cartridge, and put it in Wednesday night. I vacuumed yesterday afternoon, and today there are a lot less piles of debris, and they are significantly smaller. I think one more vacuuming with a skimmer sock, and I should get all the debris filtered out of the pool. I still...

What's a cover pump?

I have been vacuuming, but the debris settles back in 24 hours (it was a shorter time frame even last week, but I've managed to vacuum out a large amount using a basket liner in the skimmer - I've gotten a lot of the fine stuff out that way, but you can't see every little bit, so some comes back...