Recent content by Misplaced Texan

I just gave up on liquid chlorine this week. I'm in North Dallas area and can't find any in Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot or Leslie's. It's been 2 weeks like this. Been buying the chloralen bleach (bleach from Mexico), but it's only 5-6%. Got tired of lugging gallons. At current price point in my...

With the current price of chlorine just wondering if it’s more economical to switch my chlorine based system to a salt water generator. Any experiences?

Hi All, My neighbor was painting his fence and his contractor got some of the paint on the water, so that you see the oily residue on top of my water. They wanted to put an enzyme chemical but by pool builder told me not to and run the pump for 24-48 hours. Anyone have experience on this? :|

Thanks all! I think I'll just wait for cooler temps or a rainy day and use the main drains (love the siphon idea but cant do it without upsetting the neighbors!.. or a really really long hose). I'll never buy Costco tablets again.. not sure if that was the cause but CYA just shot up!

Hi All, M CYA has taken a massive increase over the past month. As the Texan heat set in my pool devoured the tablets and so did the stabilizer. To the best of my eye sight is around 80 so ill need to get new water in. I there a thread that gives some guidance on how to drain pool? (Not how to...