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I'm considering doing a DIY solar hot water for my pool but it seems costly for irrigation tubes and even more for evac tubes. The evac tubes I seem to read that they break easy and irrigation tubes may leach more toxic chems into the pool and i do not want to use metal collectors cause i...

I have been trying to think of a way to make a diy cyclone filter or prefilter preferably for my in-ground pool because the multi cyclone is 400 bucks. to steep for me at the moment. So I have been consider using a cheap cyclone dust collector with a 5 gallon bucket. But these are made for air...

I'm not sure which forum to ask this but this one seems closes to it I read on this site that someone suggested using Dow corning 111 when I searched for it I get Molykote 111 from Dow corning but that isn't the product name "lubricant and sealant" suggested. Is it still safe to use this...

I have been reading recommended levels and I wonder the about the TA level for stabilized versus unstabilized since Im starting out with bleach with a little stabilized water from last year .. it would be considered as unstabilized (cya 0-19) until I use the pucks to raised my cya then it would...

There is a lot of wasted water when submerging an entire D.E. filter element into a trash can to soak\clean it so I have been trying to find a bin or something that would limit the wasted space .. but have not found any online .. aside from making my own which usually ends up poking a hole in...

so what should I do with an aa treatment .. keep it at 7-7.2 anyway?

the AA treatment says to keep the ph at 7.2 for about 2 weeks but using the proteam metal magic says to start with your ph at 7.5

How can I test for cya below 20? what are the risks and disadvantages of going over the recommended shocking level?

My Ph is about 7.5 and Ta is about 65 (turns purple at 60, turns red at 70) I read that changing ta also changes the Ta I'm about to shock tonight with bleach I'm going to attempt to drop the ph with 1 lbs or so of dry acid then I'll try shocking with bleach .. would this raise my ph back up...

does anyone know what I should do with the old manifold? .. is it recyclable?

Even with dry acid? The instructions on the container says to add 4oz per 10,000 gallons of water then allow 6 to 8 hours for distribution

I stumbled upon a silicon oil filled stainless steel water pressure gauge for pools .. after that i found a 'Digital pressure switch for water systems .. would that be something that I could use on my DE filter to automatically shut my pump off when it reaches a certain pressure reading? or is...

it was orange the first day i test but i only tested it once .. the last five times it was purple .. so i added 1 lbs of dry acid (or close to it).. will check again 6 hours later

yes a taylor from tftestkits .. but it is a year old

i used a 2 year old test kit and got relatively the same high ph reading .. should I let the acid rain do the work for me?