Recent content by mtheaded

Well, I woke up to a very serious problem this morning. My vinyl pool liner has developed a split at the bottom of the deep end of the pool and all of the water is draining out. Our liner is 10 years old and I was cleaning leaves out of it yesterday afternoon and I must have started the tear...

That's the answer I was looking for! Thank you!

Thanks. I did read it. I was just curious as to why our recommended is so much lower than other sites. Like I said, I am coming back from a metal removal treatment, so I still have to raise my pH a bit, but slowly. I can either use baking soda and raise both pH and Alkalinity or use Borox and...

Bleach, Baking Soda and Borax

It's been a long time since I've posted anything in the forums thanks to being a BBB person for the last 10 years or so. However, I am in the middle of bringing my numbers back up after treating for metal stains with ascorbic acid and I have a question. My current alkalinity is sitting at 70...

Thanks for the reply Catanzaro! The link to your excellent post just reinforced what I already (thought) knew. As I said, I've been closing my pool for 12 years but only had an issue with the valve cracking over the winter this last year. In all theory that should not have been able to happen...

You can do it. I have never covered my pool in the 13 years I've had it. Not too many trees near me and I find days during the winter mild enough to do some scooping and keep it fairly clean. I put gallon plastic jugs with a couple inches of sand in them in my skimmers for freeze expansion. I...

I've used it and I have not used it. Not sure it really makes much difference. I found out this year (when my pump died mid-season) that I was able to keep chlorine levels fine by dropping a portable pump in the pool and draping the hose back into the pool to create some circulation and added my...

I’ve been opening and closing my own pool for about 12 years (since I became a Trouble Free Pool member) and have never had any real issues except when I left water in a line and cracked a valve last year (in my notes section below). I want to share my method and would be interested in seeing if...

Thanks everyone! I see there are a variety of potential plugs I can use that are available at local box hardware stores for just a few bucks, like and and as well as racket's suggestion so at least I now have a plan. In the meantime, I managed to rig a temporary solution so I could...

Well, there is the rub JasonLion....the pad is below water level, unfortunately. Having said that, I can't be the ONLY person that has ever been in this situation! I was looking on line yesterday and I saw one guy say he opened the line then shoved an over sized raw potato in the line to seal...

I haven’t had to reach out to my TFP friends for quite some time, but I’m in a bit of a mess and not sure how to get out of it! I just went through the process of opening my 26,000 gallon vinyl lined in-ground pool over the weekend and when I opened everything up and turned on the pump, one of...