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that's the "cloudiest" water I have ever seen. just kidding...nice!

oops ^^^^^^^ Richard beat me to it..but we are thinking of the same type of thing How about a stand alone water pump taking pool water and pumping it to a fountain style head for a water hose? Would be simple and easy, removable when pool in use. Would have to consider electrical safety...

CSI is less important for Vinyl pools but you can still get calcium scaling issues if you let the CSI number get too high +. Slowly drop your TA number (by using normal additions of MA to lower PH to 7.2 or so) and that might help slow down the PH rise you are seeing.

wlow60, Which model heater do you have and how many gallons is your pool. Based on your post, sounds like you have not isolated the spa for the heater and are heating both pool and spa which will take a long time (and use quite a lot of $). To isolate the spa for the heater you need to move...

OK, Good news your pool equipment is in good shape. You will still need a good pool water test kit as recommended on this site. It would be nice to test your fill water before hand to know if there will be any issues like super hard water or very low hardness. I guess you could take a...

I plugged your numbers into the pool calculator and get a CSI of -1.0 (water temp around 85 deg CSI is worse if water is colder). This is bad if you have a plaster pool. The water will want to etch calcium out of your plaster. Get your PH up to 7.5. If you have plaster, this might explain...

Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl Aerating is introducing air into the water via bubbles or splashes. You can aerate the pool by using your water features if you have them such as a spa overflow waterfall into the pool or even your return jets if you can angle them...

Salty, Congrats on the new house. First..where are you located and how much swim season do you think you have left? Before filling the pool, take time to inspect the pool surfaces for cracks or damage, look over the pool equipment and piping for anything broken. Have you tried the pump...

Most automated control systems have a manual mode or service mode that allows you to move individual valves..can you access this mode and change the suction to the spa but keep returns on for the pool. This will drain the spa like you want. What is happening in your picture. Looks like water...

Your plan sounds good. I would stop any use of cal-hypo and use bleach or liquid chlorine to do your shocking. Don't worry about TA right now. Concentrate on keeping the FC at mustard levels if you are sure its mustard algae. You are done shocking when you can pass all 3 of the three...

Food salt will also often have an anti caking additive like sodium silicoaluminate so that it does not clump.

Sounds like there may be a problem with the flow valve on top of the filter. how much flow comes out? lots or just a trickle? Is the amount different between filter and recirculate? I would disassemble it and inspect (with the pump off of course). If you are not mechanically inclined, it...

This seems like one instance where the base demand test in the K-2006 actually could be useful to determine how far off the PH was. As far as the chlorine level you need to hold and worries about swimming, its your high CYA level that is holding a lot of that chlorine in "reserve" so the...

Mastiff, The valve cannot let you draw water from both sources at once? I have this same set-up and can put the valve in a halfway position so my pool cleaner plugged into the wall port and the skimmer are both working..in fact this is how I set the proper intake suction on the pool cleaner by...

Re: Why the difference between FC levels here and manufactur What level of CYA are they using for that recommended FC level?