Recent content by Momcgrath

I live in Appleton Wisconsin and Woodman’s grocery store has Pool Shock for $10.47 for 4 gallons.

I really dont want to drain 13 thousand gallons of water. I will get sequestrant and add that regularly. I have never had a problem with staining in the past 14 years that I have had this pool and have used the Nature 2 filter

Here are my results - current metals 1.3, alkalinity 70, total chlorine 0.3, pH 7.6, total hardness 117, CYA 47, optimizer plus 1

NVM - I see that you said that if there was copper in the pool I might have to drain it and refill

The pool store near my house said that they can test for copper at no charge . What do I do if there is copper in the pool?

Okay - will do - thank you!

I just bought a new cartridge this year - the instructions were to replace it yearly. So I should just leave it out? - I haven't put it in yet. How do I test for copper without my test kit?

I am new to this community (TFP community), so I have followed my pool supplier's recommendations about opening/closing my pool in the past. Now I want to try to operate my pool the TFP way. BUT, I should have had a test kit on hand to open my pool and get it balanced right away and I didn't -...