Recent content by Poolrunsme

Problem solved! I noticed a VERY slow drip under the connection from pump to valves (about 1 drop a minute). I took it all apart and reconnected each piece using fresh teflon tape on the leaking connector. I now have complete prime and am able to vacuum. Good lesson. Thanks for all of the...

I have 2 skimmers and I do always close 1 when I vacuum. I have 2 valves before the pump. One is for the MD the other controls both skimmer ports. My problem is noticable even with just both skimmers ports drawing water, pump is not fully priming.

Both ideas sound plausible to me, although I did blow out both skimmer lines before closing the pool. I guess something could have clog line after I removed the gizmo. My valves have not been touched since installation though.

I have been opening/closing my inground pool for 15 years. First time I hit this problem at opening. My water seems to be circulating just fine but when I switch off Main Drain to skimmers only I cannot get a good enough prime for the vacuum to work. It does not even fully prime when vacuum hose...

Ok, here is my update as promised. The first thing I did was use the pool math calculator to plug in my actual and target levels to figure out how much of each chemical to add. I first added about 4 lbs of dry acid to get my ph down while continuing to add my bleach. Then I added 6 lbs of CYA to...

Thanks for the tips. I will update with my progress

This is my 3rd season on this site. I am a BBB success story. I came into this site 2 years ago with major chlorine demand issues which was basically caused by pool store chemicals getting my CYA to well over 100. I first stopped going to the pool store and adopted the BBB method. I was able to...

I had to go away this weekend so my slam was interrupted. Friday morning I was at FC of 18 before we left. When I checked it Sunday evening it was at 1ppm. We did have 3 full days of hot sun in the northeast this weekend. So I brought the chlorine back up to 9 last night to do an overnight test...

Ok, back to reality. Last night my FC went from 16 to 12 in seven hours overnight. This is still a major improvement, for days I was losing about 1ppm per hour overnight so it does look like my chlorine consumption is slowing down.

OMG, I might be done. My FC was 17 at 11pm and ( just measured it this morning at 6am and it was 18.5! I may have a rezding error cause I don't think it would rise, but in any case it does not look like I lost much if any chlorine at all. My CC was very close to 0. Fingers crossed that my...

No, I have not pulled the light and cleaned it. I have only pulled the light once to change the bulb a couple of years ago...I will try that tonight. Thanks for the suggestion. Last night at 10pm my FC was 22.5 and 5:15am this morning it was 16.5 but my CC was the lowest yet. I had to really...

I completely replaced my DE filter grids on day 2 of the SLAM(last Tuesday). The water was clear at that point and my pressure has barely moved since then.

The water is crystal clear. I brushed and vacuumed over the weekend, which was difficult because it is so clean I could not tell where I had brushed or vacuumed. I did brush around the light and stairs, but am not seeing any noticeable debris. The pressure is on due to the timing I chose to...

Last night at 7:30 my FC was 18.0, this morning at 6:00am FC was 12.5 and CC less than .5. I am REALLY starting to think I have hit a plateau with this process. I added more Chlorine and at 12:00pm the FC was 16. I am going to keep it above 16 again today and see what happens tonight, but will...

Thank you, that what I was hoping to hear....I don't want to drop out of the race before I cross the finish line. I do need to go buy some more chlorine now