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24 hours of skimmer basket sludge: WAY less dirty than last vacuum!: Looking good: Hoping the deep end stays clean:

FC: 24 (added some earlier) CC: 0.0 (yay!) pH: 7.3 (good to see this rise back up) CYA: 60 (surprisingly) about to vacuum...

Good news: FC only dropped to 21 this morning, and the pool floor still only has a little bit of dead algae. It’s certainly not covering almost the entire floor like last week! Bad news: it rained like crazy yesterday, so this was my first test since Monday night. Being home with 3 young kids...

This is what my PB receptionist mentioned, and that’s what got me thinking that maybe this problem I’m having is simply algae that’s not getting vacuumed properly, if at all. I may have been too impatient with my vacuuming (last summer I had 3 girls that were two years old or younger, so time...

The water has been pretty clear since last Monday after dousing the pool with 5 gallons of 12.5%, but I didn’t have any CYA in yet, so it’s effectiveness may not have been maximized. Now that I’ve properly SLAM’ed it (and told me wife no to swimming last weekend, that the pool wasn’t ready yet)...

Going to get a chlorine refill later today. Would it make sense or be a good idea to throw some DE in the filter at this point? I think the skimmer basket sock is helping catch some of the fine stuff, but I’m not sure if all the algae is actually being vacuumed up. It tends to at first get...

FC: 23.5 CC: 0.5 pH: 7.2 Water temp: 65 Looks like 2 of 3 SLAM criteria are there. Water is overall pretty clear, but there’s still a little bit of dead algae on the pool floor. Going to vacuum that up today and hope it goes away!

FC: 24.5 CC: 1.0 (whoa!) pH: 7.2 Water temp: 67 Should I keep testing TA often?

After breaking 3 Pentair blue/aluminum poles in 4 years (various lengths), I bought an 8-16’ yellow fiberglass Pentair pole (Rainbow EZ Lock). It’s easily the best & strongest pole I’ve owned. It had better be at nearly 3x the price of the cheap aluminum ones!

Our last liner had one heck of a divot due to the white part of our stairs (below for close up): And our new liner already has one. It looks like this white piece of plastic is removable. Can this be removed so it doesn’t punch a hole in our liner? Is there something else than can be used to...