Recent content by PMCoro

He is! He can't believe how clean and clear the pool looks; he kept asking if that's the color the water should be (beautiful blue!) and I couldn't understand what he meant... he said, "Well, it's never been that color before." :D He loves it!

As soon as I read this I ran outside (but, like, I ACTUALLY ran!) and turned on the pool light... OMG!!!!!! :colors: I did not know TFP water could do that!!!!! :bowdown: I actually haven't put DE into the filter yet. The filter is my husband's jurisdiction - I'm too easily overwhelmed by...

Stick with it and you'll get there. I was testing the water constantly and adding chlorine every single time it was below shock level. It took a lot of dedication and repetition but it worked WAY faster and WAY, WAY better than I expected it to... That picture of my pool when it was an...

Hahahaha! :D Just trust my TFP peeps here and follow their advice... They are AWESOME. Or you can drive up here and swim with us :swim::sun:

Here's how it looks today... (See post #22 in this thread to see where I started from!) :lovetfp:

I think I'm done!!! :whoot: The water is SO clear, OCLT was -1.0ppm, and CC is 0!!!! I'll probably bring it back up to shock level one more time tonight, just to be safe. The problem now is, with the water so clean and clear, I can see every stain and mark on the bottom of the pool... It's an...

Too late; we bought 50 jugs.... No, we didn't! :jocolor: We're at the tail end of a SLAM so we've been buying 4-6 jugs at a time, but we won't need that much pretty soon (I hope!). We've just started with the TFP method so I don't know what my daily chlorine needs will be. But, I'm a good...

So, it sounds like this is a good product to use. I'm not so much concerned about the cost... I'm still learning this method and I just didn't want to put anything into the pool that I wasn't sure about. My husband was excited about it because we used much less quantity than the generic bleach...

I'm so excited to see this progress. The pool water is mostly clear. This morning I found grayish/white clumps at the bottom of the pool (dead algae, I'm guessing?) and I vacuumed it up with the suction cleaner. I'm still losing about 3-4ppm of FC overnight, so I'm going to stay the course...

I'm still new at the TFPC method so I wanted to run this by the veterans and get some feedback. It says it has 10.00% sodium hypochlorite. This is basically the same as the generic bleach, just stronger, right? I bought it for $3.64 at Walmart and it has a full gallon of chlorine - 128 oz...

Great, thanks! I'll try that next time. :) - - - Updated - - - I was talking with my husband about this last night. He read that page (Add DE to a Sand Filter) but he was confused about it... He said it didn't sound like enough DE for 300 lbs of sand. Is it just a couple of cups that need to...

I can't believe it's only been 3 days! Here's an updated pic from this morning: http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh501/mechecoro/IMG_3934_zpsrfibu4nt.jpg And here's a picture from above the steps: http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh501/mechecoro/IMG_3938_zpspndhzwp5.jpg I can't wait for...

Yep! You can't see it in the picture, but the algae was waving a white flag in surrender... :cool: I took that picture this morning around 10:00; we were out of town all day and when we came back (around 7:00) the water was even bluer. FC went down a bit (FC-16, CYA-60), so I poured in more...

Here's how the pool looks today. (I'm uploading from my phone and can't figure out how to rotate it.)

Pool looks WAY better this morning! It's blue again, but still cloudy. Lost 3ppm of FC overnight so we poured in enough bleach to bring it back up to shock level. I'll post a pic in a bit.