Recent content by sehrmude

I have a simple, small pool without automation. I do have a heater though and wish I had opted for the automation just so I could start heating the pool while away from home. In the winter, even with a 400k BTU NG heater in SW Florida, it takes several hours to get the 10,500 gallon pool to...

Thanks mknauss. You and the rest of the TFP group are always really helpful! One day I will be able to give better advice!

Ah, yes....CSI! Full Test Results FC 6 pH 7.5 TA 70 CH 600 CYA 80 Salt 3500 Borates 30 Temp 88° F CSI: -0.15

...and the verdict is....on my initial test I correctly multiplied by 25. After checking my notes at home, the initial test result was 175ppm. After adding half the 25lb box, I retested and came up with 216... If I multiplied by 25, this would be impossible....so I must have multiplied by 12...

Thank you for that reply - I will certainly double check tonight when I re-test. I was reading the instructions while performing the tests - and writing this post from memory (using a calculator to reverse engineer the # of drops). I am hoping that it is my memory that was wrong and not my test...

***This is just a story of my learning experience - If you are new to maintaining your own pool, like I am, make sure you retest ALL of your chemical levels after periods of heavy rains.*** Before the pool build was completed, I had used my TFTest kit to figure out my fill water (tap). I read...

He/She hasn't been back...we went back to enjoying the pool after 10 days of vigilance. I changed the filter cartridge - but didn't drain/scrub the actual pool. If 10 days of "mustard shock" level chlorine didn't kill whatever was in the water - well - maybe I won't live to see 100. At least...

For those of you wondering if the Dolphin can get on a sun shelf - The Dolphin S series isn't as tall as some of the other robots and it climbs on top of our deep end swim-out and bottom two steps every cleaning. I only have to sweep anything on the shelf and top step down into the pool while...

We built an L shaped pool - didn't have the amount of space you have (couldn't have fit a 20x40) - our 'L' is the sunshelf and is the same width as the actual pool area. Since we had such a small area to work with, we kept the depth of the pool shallow enough that average adults can stand in...

We use blue a lot...

I originally had the same thoughts as you about not needing color - white lights are fine, I thought. Our PB doesn’t sell plain white LED - if you upgrade to LED you get color. (They don’t include the controller though, that was $300 additional). The LED lights with the colorlogic controller...

Thank you - my wife designed the pool, furniture and all the landscaping. I can only take credit for researching how to take care of it and sharing with you all!

Hey Phil, I’m also in Tampa; however, my pool is salt water chlorinated. I try to maintain my CYA at 80 and the salt chlorine generator keeps the FC around 8. My wife also likes to keep a hot pool - we are always around 90 (89 these days without any help from the heater). As others have said...

I wish I had video of anything besides cats drinking at the deep end - carefully hanging their heads over the edge without falling in.