Recent content by Noggin

Wow... What a day yesterday was. Three viewings, three offers. One offer above asking with a comment, "Loved the pool!" Went on the market just before lunch, sold by the time we were in bed. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Yeah, I considered that might have been it. I did wait over 30 minutes for the first sample and maybe another 15 minutes for the second sample. I sampled from above the return, where I normally get my samples. There is another return in the shallow end with less flow, maybe I should have...

I skipped out of work just before the pool store opened and bought 9 lbs of sodium sulfite and 2 bottles of Jack's Magic Pink Stuff. The Pink Stuff is for salt water pools, but I have an abnormally high TDS, or it was at the end of last season. The back of the bottle suggested that the Pink...

Love confirmation posts! I'm stoked and hopeful that this won't be a disaster now. I think you posted while I was editing my previous post. Thanks for the suggestion on the sodium thiosulfate, I'll see if they have some.

And I use sequesterant to resolve iron issues as well? This is so stressful... Everything has been fine for months, then 24 hours before listing. If it is resolved (or at least brought into check) by sequestrant, how long will it take? I can't drain and refill overnight as I have no way to...

So reading that link makes it look like metal issues. How do I read pH with high chlorine? And heck, I'm kicking myself for thinking of sequestrant but not buying any. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

No heating coils, so I don't think I'm leaching copper from anything. Might have metal in the water still though. I asked the guy at the store if he had any sequestrant and he didn't know where it was. I should have looked for it myself but didn't as I was in a hurry and didn't know if I...

Just bought enough liquid cya to get the pool up to 30. Pool store guy tried to sell me copper algaecide, said it takes copper out of the water. Told him I didn't want it. Bought some polyoxyethelynrdimethylimininioethelyne 60. Is this just polyquat 60? Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I also don't know if pH measurement is accurate at high chlorine levels Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Clear green. I've used polyquat 60 about a week ago as I was going to do an ascorbic acid treatment. I've never poured acid into the summer. PH is a bit high right now, and it tends to run high. I think it is about 7.8 from when I tested a bit ago Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

This morning, I woke up to a nice blue pool and went into work. At 10:00 AM, my wife called and said that the pool was green, so I drove home and poured in a gallon of 10% liquid chlorine and went back to work. I get home at 6:00 PM, and the pool is still green. The only thing I can think of...

The leak is DEFINITELY on the fill side, the float doesn't completely close off inlet. I closed the ball valve and let it sit overnight and it didn't overflow. I ordered another John Guest check valve. Got my fingers crossed that it is strong enough to stop the water flow. It'll be nice to...

Being rather stupid, I replaced the tubing on my Liquidator last season and not the check valves as I didn't think I needed them. My liquidator is a few inches below the water level of the pool, so over the course of several months it killed a second of my neighbors grass. I disassembled the...

That makes sense, otherwise I'd expect it to be a common topic here. Even if I have a layer of salt in the bottom of my liquidator and it gets mixed up and part of it ends up in the pool, it still really can't be any worse than someone who just pours the liquid chlorine into the pool. They'd...

I use Shock for my chlorine source. And I can say that too, cause that is the products name! Right on the bottle, it says, "Shock!" Its 10% chlorine from the pool store. I've not had the water tested for salt content. My TF-100 kit doesn't test for it, and I don't trust the bozos at the...