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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I don’t believe that it is a dead animal as something large enough to continue to smell for this many years would not fit between the coping and the top of the fiberglass. The pool was built five years ago, so I also don’t think that it was used as...

For about three years I have been noticing an unusual odour around the pool, usually when I am in the water. The smell is swampy, or like compost, but no one could notice it except me. (Everyone says I am part hound due to my exceptional sense of smell.). For the last few years we have been...

I thought I would do that but then I was worried that I would keep adding and adding without any result from the SWCG and end up with high salt. I'm in Canada and it is not as easy to get the Taylor products as it is in the U.S. I'll check the recommended level for my Pentair i20. That's...

Good morning from Ontario, Canada. We have had our Trilogy Nebula 8,000 U.S. Gallon for 3 years now and this group was an integral part of learning to understand the chemistry. I purchased a Taylor Complete Kit CK-2006 two years ago and that made an enormous difference to my growth. Thanks...

Hello, I am wondering how this looks to you, and if you could suggest an RPM, since you said that 2100 seems too high. Thanks again, Nancy

Good morning, I am happy to say that as of last night my little green light was solid. WHEW. Now to calculate SWG run times...I woke up this morning to the pump running and I remembered that he set it to run on a higher RPM for a short time in the morning to "stir things up". So in addition...

Hello. I downloaded your file to drop box but I can't alter the values. And thank you for sharing! Do I need to launch in excel?

Thank you Marty! My pool installer told me to drop to 20% because the salt was high. He also said to dump a bunch of water and replace, which I have done. We run 8 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. at 2100. Was wondering how generating chlorine would affect salt levels...hence, why would I stop generating...

Thanks Allen, Caroline, and Texas Splash, I appreciate the link. I do have the manual, and I reread page 7, but I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Could you clarify for me? Both the pool store and my SWG are saying the salt is too high. I have decreased the output to 20% and dropped the...

Hi thank you! Our SWG is an Intellichlor IC20 blinking high salt which correlates with the pool store. I reduced the SO to 20% from 40% and drained 6 inches of water, which I am replacing with tap water. I will try granulated CYA. Thank you. Nancy

Thank you, thank you! Re: Pool store tests: I know...I know... but, being a Canuck, I need to order the test online and they are a FORTUNE! The local store has a centrifuge attached to the computer and they aren't doing the old buy buy buy, so I do have a little faith. Just a little. Any...

Hello, In the absence of a proper kit, I brought a sample to the pool store. FC 1.3 TC 1.58 CC .28 PH 7.7 Hardness 194 ppm Alk 116 ppm CYA 2 ppm Copper 0 iron 0 Phosphate 85 SALT 4277!! I didn't read the fine print that blinking green means it's too high. Solid green means at level. It's...

Thanks so very much! The installer never told us to add chlorine at any time. He said that SWG does everything! HA HA! I was reading Pool School and the ABC's page. I will get some liquid chlorine. Should I add more MA? Thanks again.

Hi! We just installed a SW Fibreglass 8,000 gallon pool two weeks ago. We have a Pentair intelliflo 2 VST, and an electrical heater. We have it set for 85 but, due to the heat wave, we are up around 90. I added 1L of muriatic acid and one stab tab two days ago and another litre of MA...