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I am interested also, I have concrete from 3 different pours (over a 13 year span). I want to spruce them up also. Thought about acid washing the slick one (before we built the pool) and then??? staining or painting all of them?? What kind of acid do you use? Do you have to keep the runoff...

New to this site too so I don't know much but....... my husband was adding algaecide, shock and anything else they sold us like it was sugar in sweet tea. Our CYA level was 170 when I came to this site for help. (We had been battling each other and black alage for months.) We replaced 2/3 of...

Would like to add a 6 CD player and speakers to our store bought island. Do they sell them at places like Best Buy that are good for leaving outside? Or, do you use boat ones? Ever time I go into one of those stores, I get a salesperson who looks like they are 12 years old and they talk over...

No more fighting about it! The "Farmer" said, he had never seen the pool look better. It really does look great now. Thanks so much. But how do I hold it? We washed out the filter this past weekend, keep the FC at 21 and it held for two nights, on the third night the kids went in after dark...

The spots do respond to brushing and I guess they may not be black, but since they are in the deep end and I am looking threw 4 to 9 feet of water, they just seem like black spots to me. They are getting lighter each day, I guess I was just expecting them to go away faster. Have not received...

I am losing hope! Have been brushing, testing, and adding bleach but still see some black spots. The ones that don't want to leave are on the side of the deep end seat and under the water fall feature but also have two areas right smack in the middle of the pool. Knew I was running low, but...

jjparrish, What is IMHO?

Well, we dumped and replaced over half the water (again), put in 14 gallons of bleach, ran the pump for 8 hours and the numbers are as follows: FC 22.5 CC .5 PH 7.5 CYA 70 TA 140 CH 540 The CYA did not go down as low as I thought it might. If I understand what I am reading in all your...

For the heck of it I did the CYA test with my tap water. Zero. Did it with pool water got 100+ again. Did it with half pool and half tap water. Got a reading of 50! Getting him to sit and read this stuff at this time of year is also zero though. He is baling hay, so working day and...

No need to reply to "What is Shock Level" having read and re-read some stickes, post, the caculator and things at the bottom of the "Caculator" I'm am thinking Shock Level means the level of FC in ratio to my CYA that will kill my alage and that this number is high and always changing. How...

Thanks for the input FPM. I will try talking to him one more time.

At this point I can not get him to dump anymore water. Money wise that would make more sense to me but having been married for 30 years I am going to work with what I got (you know you have to pick you battles, not all are worth a fight). I have read most of the stickes and everyone keeps...

I was wondering about the mix or swirling part on the CYA test, in the directions in step 3, it does not say mix or swirl so I just assumed that I was to do neither. I will read your post and add more bleach. We will also consider dumping more water. Our last water bill was $400 (because we...

Ok, so, I do think before, I told you what the color of my hair was. Nothing bad about blondes but I sure seem to be living up to the dumb blonde thing. Looking back at my test notes for the previous posting I see that the T/A was 120 not 1.75. Tested last night and the CL was 1.2, re-tested...

Jason, The reason I got the 1.75 is because it was almost good enough with the one drop and I felt the second drop should have been half a drop. Soooo....I figured 1.5 drops! Sounds to me that maybe that was not the right thing to do. But two drops was over kill. Sorry, from now on I will...