Recent content by PoolMom1031

Hey there - having a huge iron problem from refilling after the winter with well water. I’ve put Polyfill in the skimmer basket and it is working well. Any reason I shouldn’t put Polyfill in the main drain pump basket? Thanks!

Awesome, thank you. I’m trying to find a definitive answer on this, but at what FC level does a sequestrant not work and put the metals back into solution?

Hi there - this is my 3rd season to open our pool and I have a question about the order of steps before officially opening. Over the winter, our water level dropped more than normal (currently testing for a leak), so we've had to refill quite a bit. We are on a well and I'm very aware that our...

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Hi there! I’m anxiously waiting to get another drain and refill tomorrow morning to bring my CYA down in order to slam my green pool. We just did about 20% drain and refill and it brought the CYA down about 20, from 120 to 100. Water is expensive and we live on a well (with tons of metals in...

Here is the current state of the pool

I’m thinking FC is holding well. My FC last night was 14.5 and it’s the same this morning. Do I still need to SLAM? If not, do I use Polyquat 60 to address algae?

Thank you for the welcome - this is an amazing site. We are on well water and I think our metal problem came from that and algicide before we knew better about copper in algicides. We are starting with about a 10% drain and getting 2,600 gal put back in (we have also had several days of rain...

Hello! I’m new here and I landed here because I’m frustrated with the pool $tore run around. We are prepping our pool for SLAM, but need to dilute the CYA first by having a water hauler come in and refill. FC 14.5 pH 7.4 TA 120 CH 420 CYA 120 We have recently had a metal problem that we thought...