Recent content by rkennis

Just bleach... and I put a sock in the skimmer basket to help collect the smaller particles. Man - that POP is tough! :) Rebecca

Yea!!! Thanks for your encouragement and support! I now have an almost perfectly sparkling pool! This site is amazing!!! thanks, Rebecca

Alright... I may just be impatient, but my cc is .5 and has been for a couple of days. The water is looking a bit better. (I can now kind of see the center drain) but - now I'm wondering about the sand filter possibly not working good enough. I've been backwashing after it rises about 8 psi...

Might the CH level be contributing to the cloudiness? I have a vinyl liner and I've never had to do anything with adjusting that level before. According to my testing, my tap water has a level of 280... thanks, Rebecca

Thanks... I forgot to mention that these numbers are before I added more bleach to bring it back up to shock level...

Please help me!!! I've been trying to get my pool swim-ready for 3 weeks and it's still cloudy. Here's the story... When we opened it, it had a lot of algae (was really green), no chlorine and no cya. The pool company added liquid chlorine and algecide. They also said that the CH was low and...

Great idea! Thanks a lot! -Rebecca

I'm finally getting around to closing my pool and I've run into a problem with draining the water. I've got the water level down to the bottom area of the skimmer inlet and it's sucking air so I closed the valve for the skimmer so the main drain could finish off the draining. I'm getting...

We got our above ground pool installed last year and finally got to swim in it at the end of summer. My question is that I'm suspicious that the center drain may not have the liner cut from it since I don't feel any suction from that drain. Should I feel suction from it? If it hasn't been...