Recent content by RisLC

Using Hydrogen Peroxide to remove metal stains I was browsing this forum and reading that hydrogen peroxide can be used to remove stains, instead of using citric acid; and it's much cheaper, which really makes me happy. But I have a few questions: 1. How do you calculate how much hydrogen...

Hydrogen Peroxide for Removing Metal Stains I was reading the posts regarding hydrogen peroxide for removing metal stains, and it is very interesting. But, how do you determine how much hydrogen peroxide to use?

I am running to the store to pick up liquid bleach and will follow the instructions listed under "How to Shock Your Pool" in the Pool School. I want to thank you guys so much for all your help and advice. I'm going to have to start reading the posts and advice in this forum from now on, and...

TF-100 FAS-DPD chlorine test: Free Chlorine - 1 Combined Chlorine - 10 Total Chlorine - 11

This is a picture of my Chlorine test results: [attachment=0:3k8n1cxh]Chlorine.jpg[/attachment:3k8n1cxh] I got the following results: FC - 3 CC - 10 Before adding the stabilizer, the CYA was 0 according to Leslie's Water Analysis report. Here are the test results from their water analysis...

OK - Here are my test results (17,000 gallon salt water pool). I did the test myself (TF-100 Test Kit), so if the readings are totally off the wall, I will drive to Leslie's and have them test our water. FC - 3 (too high?) CC - 10.5 pH - 7.8 TA - 110ppm CYA - 20ppm (we added 1 gallon of...

O.K. I'm at Lowe's picking up a new edger. I will post test results and a picture in about 1 hour. Thanks for the quick response. Laura

Hi guys, I'm new to this forum and have never posted, so if I write something stupid, please forgive me. For the past couple of weeks, I've been having to backwash my D.E. filter every 4 or 5 days. So, I thought my filter needed a thorough cleaning. So on Thursday someone came out and took...