Recent content by Shelley

That does make me feel better. Thanks! :calm:

I did read it, thanks. I'm more worried right now about the water shooting out my pump basket but will look into other chlorine options. Honestly, I don't want to haul heavy bottles of bleach from the store every week and out to the pool all the time. I'm not generally lazy and I'm strong...

I like the feeder. Usually it keeps the chlorine level stable so I don't have to use shock. Vinyl lined pool, 16x32 rectangle. Here's what the Leslie's test shows: FAC 5 Ph 7.8 TA 130 CYA 50 Calcium hardness 250 Phosphates 200 They had to order my part, though, so I'm vulnerable now to being...

Welp, I went to try gtemkin's test, kicked over the auto chlorinator, and got a shot of water to the face when the line split apart. Perhaps the air was coming from a cracked chlorinator hose? (I did manage to try opening the release valve before turning off the pump and water came out instead...

Thank you for all this help--I'm very appreciative! I put more shock in a couple of hours ago (been running on recirculate since yesterday) so chemistry will be skewed for a bit. I have been having trouble keeping chlorine level up. This happened last year when I opened the pool too. Sigh...

That sounds deceptively easy. Maybe it is time for me to learn a new trick. Thanks!

Yes, thanks! It was the tutorial that got me all excited about how I was totally going to fix all my pool problems today. Then I went out and looked and realized...maybe not today. :o Another shot:

Sigh. I was afraid of that. I took water to Leslie's last week and they said the chemistry was fine (which my strip tests showed as well) though I'm having trouble keeping chlorine level up. I'll take more water in today. They sold me their Pool First Aid in case the cloudiness is actually...

This is my first post, though I've been reading and learning from this forum for years. I feel like this is a pretty stupid problem, but the closest thing to "plumbing" I've ever done is install a new kitchen faucet, so I'm really afraid to start hacking at pvc. After reading here, I've...