Recent content by smthomas7

Just thought about that and grabbed a new bottle of CYA reagent I bought end of last year and had stored in the the cool basement…same result somewhere around 20-25. Doesn’t make any sense, but regardless I am slowly making ground now at the higher chlorine level and can now at least start to...

Thanks for the advice. I do follow the SLAM process. The only thing I can think of is that the CYA is measuring lower than actual. I use the turbidity test and never had an issue with it in the past.

Hi. I opened my pool a few days ago and I am only making very slow progress clearing the water up for an unknown reason. I have had the pool for 10 years and never had this problem. Per my typical opening the water was initially clear, but alot of worms (scooped out) and algae/dirt on bottom...

I forgot to note…when I opened the pool and removed the return and skimmer plugs it was either full or so close to full that I didn’t notice. However, we also get about 40” of rain per year here in PA, so normal rainfall could have been keeping it full over the winter given the small leak...

I seem to have developed a small leak in my in ground pool and can’t find it. I keep my pool covered with a solar cover, so very little or no evaporation and in the past the pool lost water very slowly due to regular usage when the cover wasn’t on. And it’s been a very dry Spring and no use in...

Thanks for pointing out the error in my posting title…corrected. I guess I will also try to play around with the Start and Run parameters too, but my understanding was that those settings were only related to the solar temperature sensor compared to water temperature. And those are already set...

I recently installed some solar panels (DIY). I thought I had everything up and running correctly, but now not sure. The valve to divert to solar appears to work correctly and turns on/off based on the solar temperature setting. However, I noticed today that when the pool gets close to the...

Yes, that is correct, but I can’t imagine anything is water tight behind the liner regardless. Even if the skimmer was attached to the pool wall, I assume ground water would still find it’s way between the wall and liner at the bolted wall panel joints.

Close to 8 years…so far the liner seems to be in good shape (fingers crossed!)

I have rust stains around my skimmer plates and can’t determine the cause. The stains are mostly near the water line on the outside of the skimmer plate, but also a little below the water line and a couple spots on the inside of the plates and a tiny bit around a couple screws too. I had the...

When I opened the pool this year there were some rust spots on the skimmers. Both on the inside edge of the plate and and the outside edge in isolated spots. I took a few screws out and its not the screws. The pool is 4-5 years old and I have noticed this in the past a few times, but much less...

FYI...for anyone that was following this. I did overnight chlorine loss test and didn’t have any loss. However, since I was still at a loss as to the cause of my cloudy water, I still raised the chlorine level to about 3/4 of shock level (still wanted to swim as this is the hottest weather we...

I had the cover on for the last 1-1/2 days and when I opened it looked cloudy...about the same as the day I vacuumed and put the cover back on. On that day and prior days when I checked it, the water seemed pretty clear and the “dirt” was on the bottom. It only got cloudy after I vacuumed...