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Re: Ascorbic Treatment to rid Pool of metal stains Thank you. I tried a bottle of sequestrant over the weekend with my ph low but no good results (the namco stuff). It actually continued to get worse, especially once I lost my pump. Luckily I bought extra aa when I got it so I'll give that...

Quick question on Ascorbic Acid Treatment. I did this about 1 1/2 weeks ago and it worked great. I slowly brought the Chlorine back up, everything great. Then it got hot and humid and the water got cloudy. I then raised the chlorine to fight the cloudiness (about 1 week into the process with...

I did consider a motor replacement but my biggest problem is time and I can get a whole pump for about the price it would cost to have someone swap the motor. I would swap it myself but with my luck I'd find out at about 9:00 tonight that I need some other part to go with it and no place would...

I did the bucket test and was losing 1/8 - 3/16 per day more in the pool than in the bucket. That was with both the skimmer and return plugged which isolated the pump/filter system. I spent over an hour in the pool yesterday with a snorkel and food coloring in a syringe testing around the...

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll do the bucket test and post my findings.

Hi, I have an above ground pool that has a small leak in the liner (about 1/4 inch per day or so). I know this 'could' be evaporation but it continued to leak last year after I closed and covered the pool down about 1 foot below my return then stopped. So, I know the level of the leak (I...

Yes, Charlie... it certainly is a beautiful sight. I wish I had made a video of the transformation. It happened fast enough that I could have. I think I was too much in awe of the growing blob of clear water going around in the pool.

I LOVE Ascorbic Acid. Here is my final result. The 1 1/2 bottles of bleach and a week of filtering got me from the mud in the first photo to the clear green in the second photo. That little $7.50 packet of Ascorbic acid in front of the bleach got me to this final photo in approximately 5...

Thanks Charlie.

Thanks Charlie. I was actually referring to Polyquat in preparation for ascorbic acid treatment but I wasn't clear in my post;) I was getting ready to do that a week ago when I added the Polyquat and my pool quickly became the cloudy mess in the first picture. From Jason, this was more likely...

FC was stable overnight last night. There is less than .5 CC and the water is clear as in not cloudy. The color looks like it is a reflection of te stain below the winter water line. Is continued shocking really going to make it better? Or should I drop chorine and go for stain removal now...

FC is still 15.5 tonight after a sunny day with the chlorine generator off (CC 0.5 or less). I removed the Trichlor from the feeder to get a good feel on the drop between tonight and tomorrow. About 1lb of Trichlor has been added to the pool since I started the shocking. I attached an updated...

One more piece of info that I left out this morning with my readings and shock results. I added about 3.5 quarts of metal control a few weeks ago but have not added any since.