Recent content by notenuftoys

Thanks! I'll definitely will do this myself. This forum is saving me money!

My booster pump was making a foul noise earlier this spring, sounding like a bearing was going out. I've had it shut off for a couple months and we just vacuum as needed to keep the bottom clean. This weekend I turned on the booster pump just to verify the noise and try to troubleshoot some...

Thanks for the quick reply, mknauss. I entered the numbers on the TFP iPhone app, and it's telling me I need 11lbs of CYA to raise. Does that sound right? Seems high. Should I just start with, say, 5lbs and retest nest weekend? btw, I'm going to order this stuff.

We've had our pool for 5 years and I've known about this forum and even visited periodically. I even bought a TFT kit! But I was bad and let the chain pool store test my water these past several years. (Forgive me, forum, for I have sinned.) Due to a combination of laziness (can't be...

Last week the pool was beautiful. Clear water, chemicals balanced, perfect temperature for swimming. Then we got a bunch of rain on Sunday, and I noticed it was cloudy. By Tuesday it was green. When I checked the panel Tuesday evening, there was no error message but the green light for the...

Maybe this is my problem, except I find it hard to believe with a brand new pool. I've had the "No Flow" on for a week (well, I was traveling on business and I think it was that way all week - can't get anyone at home to monitor the pool). I just cleaned the filter, pulled the AquaPure off and...

What could cause my Ph to keep climbing? I can't get it to stay down at 7.5 for more than a week. It's getting very frustrating. I have a SWG plaster pool, about 26000 gallons, finished in March of this year.

Now that the pool is done, we're swimming all the time, it's time to pipe in the music. After reading opinions here on outdoor speakers, I picked up a pair of Yamaha AW350W at Fry's on a great deal. I want to pipe the music to these speakers from iTunes mix on our Mac inside. I have the Apple...

Why would the PB plaster and fill the pool when there's still construction being done at the site? I would be very concerned about messing up the pool with all the fill-in and patio work that's left. Construction workers aren't the neatest guys in the world.

Water still has a green tint to it in the deep end. Shallow end is looking a lot better. Do I need to add something to raise the chlorine?

Okay, so finally I have the numbers from my first test using the TF-100 kit. This is for a SWG. Water temp: 83 Salt: 3000ppm FC: .5 CC: .5 pH: 8.2 T/A: 60 CH: 210 CYA: Filled all the way and could still see the black dot. Is the water in the test bottle supposed to get cloudy? It'...

We have a new pool (2 months old), and when I got home today, the pool has a slightly green tinge. I travel Monday through Thursday almost every week, so I'm not able to watch it every day. And I don't know enough yet to even teach my wife. :( So here's my immediate question; air temps...

That looks to be a fair price for the North Texas area. I paid about $56k for 114' perimeter diving pool with 800sq stamped patio with flagstone inlay and a weeping wall. Equipment list is comparable. And I don't have a rock slide, which probably isn't cheap if you priced it separately. The...

This is when it's all worth it!! Last week over spring break, my youngest (in the pool) and a friend talked themselves into swimming. The water was 63 degrees (burrrr!!)! But they did it, even doing an inaugural front flip off the diving board. I'm installing micro sprinklers all through...

Thanks for the replies. I just put in an order for the TF-100 and the salt test kit.