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Thank you very much Kelly! If you look at the first step in the picture, all the way on the right side (i.e. towards the baja shelf) there is a long black line from about the middle of the step towards the spa. I have a couple of these streaks as well as some big rounds spots.

Bringing this to back to the top. 99.9% sure our stains are not organic, but otherwise still not quite sure what these stains are. Results from Leslie for minerals are: 0.1 Iron 0 Copper 93 Phosphates They are recommending their Stain & Scale Remove, but given the $42 a bottle (I would need...

Thanks for the feedback. Guess I’ll have to bite the bullet ;)

Any help, thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

I did drop 5 crushed up vitamin c tabs in a sock on one of the spots and no change. Also put a Chlorine pick on another spot for a few minutes and nothing. The stains feel like they are in the plaster, i.e I can’t scrape anything off. Should I still slam to make absolutely sure it’s nothing...

Hello TFP Family, It's been a minute since I last posted, mostly because everything has been going swimmingly (pun intended) since we built the pool in early 2018. No issues at all really until about two weeks ago when I started noticing black marks/streaks showing up. They are most visible on...

Thank you so much Triptyx! You are absolutely right, my result was -0.57, typo on my end.

Ladies & Gents, Been reading a lot of posts regarding CSI and been "modeling" on the pool math app to see what impact CSI in what way, but still struggle a bit to understand how I can get my CSI number closer to 0. Here are my numbers from last night: FC 4.5 CC 0 pH 7.5 TA 80 CH 225 CYA 60...

will do; thanks James

Re:  And we're off in SE Houston Are you serious??? The tile job sounds horrible and you should def demand a do over, but that last part is just about the height of unprofessional behavior. Time for a serious heart to hear with the owner in my book.

Ladies & Gents, Would appreciate your guidance or affirmation that I'm on the right path. Brief history, PB added salt a day earlier than originally planned and I was not there to witness, but was told that 7 bags of salt were added to our 15k gallon pool. SWG is a Hayward T-15 cell. They...

Perfect Jim; exactly the guidance I was looking for. You guys rule!

Thanks Marty; very good to know that the test can't read below 30; since the vial has a 20 line, I would have assumed it's reliable down to 20. But absolutely, I will increase CYA over the next few weeks (don't want to do it in one big load and potentially overshoot). Going back to my...

Understood; so do you call it 20 even if it's much closer to the 30 line? I mostly wanted to show that it increased after my initial adding of stabilizer as it initially was likely below 20 (i.e. the vial was full and could still see dot)