Recent content by nickprette

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    Restoration in Chicago Suburbs (Shockcrete or Fiberglass Shell?)

    My very old existing concrete and stainless steel wall, pool days have come to an end. Im looking for a contractor to price me new rebar and shotcrete style renovation or demo everything and a fiberglass shell. Its a 34'x19 rectangle. Can anyone recommend someone? Thanks!
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    Brown stains

    old pool but taken care of over the years besides needing a paint job the last couple. Opened up fine this year with typical paint spots missing. Had a rough couple weeks with a circulation issue and let the pool go cloudy/green until part came in and I SLAM to get back to normal like I have...
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    Rust on metal pool walls

    Very old pool I guess they made them like this at one point. See zoomed out photo if your confused on what I mean See second photo for a clean part of the wall then see third photo of it getting rusty. I’ve had the pool for 4 years never see it get that bad looking. Really wanted to try CLR and...
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    Midwest 30k gallon or over, heated or natural?

    Anyone with a big inground pool over 30k gallons with no heater? I think I average around 75 degrees with no heater and I’m ready to make the investment to bump it up to 80-82
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    Is slam or shock maintenance

    Is slamming ever part of maintenance, example after a heavy rain or large group Swim Or should you just bring it to Shock level once?
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    Liquid vs Dry Chemicals

    Using all liquid chemicals in my pool can I use them in my hot tub? Old school tiger river spa Example liquid shock, muriatic acid
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    High Ph and TA. Listen to pool math app?

    TA is at a 150 Ph on the k-1000 is 8.2 or higher??? Punch it into pool math app without TA and it wants me to add 9.8 oz of muriatic but punch in the TA with the Ph and it wants me to add 115 oz. That large difference made me come to the forum....thoughts? Side note I got done slamming...
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    Pool math app vs cya chart

    36k gallon concrete pool Tf-100 kit Cya closer to 30 then it is 40 Refreshing my memory on slam technique had a rough opening, am I following the tfp site and using 12 or 16 as slam, the chart has a Star next To 20cya as if that’s where I want to be when the app says 30-60cya is ideal and...