Recent content by sirenian

Last fall I bought a house with a 30,000 gallon pool in-ground pool. I couldn't move in right away, so I hired a pool professional to get the water balanced, clean it and maintain it for a few weeks. I started taking care of the pool. I started out with test strips that showed essentially no...

Is there any real danger just casting granular calcium chloride on the surface of a pool? I've read that you need to mix it in a bucket in small batches because of the heat of solution, but I figured that was a lot of trouble with 50lbs of ice melt. I just cut open a bag of granular CaCl ice...

I bought a house with an 30-40K gallon outdoor plaster pool. I'm told that it was opened by a professional, and I had a professional tend to it before I moved in. Which means, of course, the water chemistry was terrible. Here's my chemistry, which is improved from where it was when I first...