Recent content by pgvinter

It would be strange for it to have dropped that much due to a few inches of rain with TA of 100 but who knows. Pools seem to be an eternal mystery.

I have not had a chance to run over to the pool store or to walmart yet. The crappy aquacheck strips I have seem to indicate a PH of 6.1 to 6.4 but I know that this is not very accurate. What damage can occur if the PH is low and the pump it off?

Not 100% sure on PH any more. I have an older test kit that came with the house but the chemicals are all over a year old. Should I use that or get a new one?

I work from home and am definitely willing to do this now and maybe get a few more days of use before closing down for the season. I just couldn't bring myself to spend another $100+ or $200 at the pool store buying products with no identifiable ingredients and being told "just add this" by...

Yeah there is definitely a feeling of someone sticking their hand in my pocket every time i go to the pool store. Quick and deep hatred has definitely developed. I will read it over. There was quite a bit of rain, probably about two inches worth and I used the less than stellar aquackeck test...

This is my first year of pool ownership. Everything seemed to go fine at first. The pool is a 35k gallon gunite pool. We opened the pool. Shocked and watched it go from disgusting green to grey to cloudy blue to blue. Used chlorine tabs and kept the water balanced from early June on and had no...