Recent content by schaargi

Update: I'm partially draining the pool today. So frustrated with not knowing what to do. :cry: I hope I can get a handle on it.

Okay. My CYA level is 90. Thank you for your patience!

Thanks, mknauss, but I don't have confidence in my own testing because I am so new, and because I don't have one of your recommended test kits (yet!), so please bear with me. I went back to the swim store for a second opinion and I learned a bunch. I brought my own test kit and tested from the...

Brilliant. Thanks, all, for your patience. Do any of you have suggestions why my test kit pH level is testing so much lower than the digital reading at the pool shop? Also, with the cloudiness, the CYA at 90 and pH of either 7.4 or 7.8, can I swim in it?

Thanks, all! I forgot to add that the phosphates measured 3700+, hence the phosphate remover. I will let that go now. Home Depot has other brands of liquid bleach. So... any brand except Chlorox, correct? Listed on the SDS sheets: The regular Cloralen product there has Hipochlorous acid...

Thanks, Texas Splash. I read that in the TFP guidelines last night. Should I just remove it now? I'm so overwhelmed right now. Everyone seems to have a different opinion. I had a go-to guy at a pool place here and he left the company. I can't seem to find someone else I trust. I'm still having...

Hello all! I am a new owner (since July) of a partially in-ground original Endless Pool with a performance current. It is 7 ft by 14 ft. and 2381 gallons and has a vinyl liner. I sanitize with a little chlorine puck and throw in some chlorine pellets every week to supplement. The filter is a...