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I had been doing that per the pool school but it had only lowered by 10 after two trys. After reading that article a little closer it looks like it can take weeks to get it down to normal levels. Thanks for your advise.

Hello, Last year I was helped by some of you to get my pool in balance and I thank you all greatly for that. This year I opened up my pool and started shocking according to how you all explained it to me the first time. I had been 2 days without CC drop, less than 1 FC drop and the water is...

Thanks woods that is exactly the idea I am looking for.

I have been useing regular Nylon spring clamps with piece of towel to keep clamps from tearing my cover. Thing is, it is not very pretty and the spring rusts and will most likely not work for more than one season here in Nebraska. To anyones knowledge are there any special clamps (not clips)...

Re: Closing pool no problem but should I completely take it Frogabog, Did you add algaecide to the water?

Hello everyone, I have read the pool school on closing above ground pool which is very easy but my question is should I take it down completely? I live in Omaha Nebraska and have seen a few pools that are left up including my Mother-in-laws old pool. She couldn't tell if it froze through but...

Will post picture of my sparkling clear water later today! To bad swimming season is almost over, but at least now I know what to do before I start next year season.

Ok looks like I got it. These are my readings since yesterday morning and not a change to anything but PH and TA. FC - 10.5 CC - .5 TC - 11 TA - 170 PH - 7.2 CL - 5 BR - 10 CYA - 30

Well my FC only dropped .5 but my CC went up .5 FC - 5.5 CC - 1 TC - 6.5 TA - 180 PH - 7.5 CL - 5 CR - 10 Shock again?

Hello I am back, Here are my results. Now I am thinking leave it like this over night and see if I lose FC and gain CC right? My TA is still high but I can lower PH with minus and then raise it again like the previous posted suggested. My CYA has come up though so what next? FC - 6 CC - .5...

Here are my results for this morning. The only things that changed was my TA and PH and I believe that was my fault in putting in to much baking soda. I added some PH minus to the pool which should drop that reading. My water is clear and there is no drop in FC overnight so that means no...

Don't know where I got the 1 in 51 from but remember is was 5 drops. Ok so correct me if I am wrong. According to the calculator I need to add 96oz of bleach to my pool to get to FC 12 and need to keep it that way till when, I guess I am missing something? (must have failed the pool school as...

Ok here are my test results with the new TF-100 which I hope I did right :shock: Cl - 1 CC - 1 TC - 3 FC - 2 Br - 2 pH - 7.4 T/A - 51 CH - 180 CYA - 0 Ok I think I got it all. The water is just ok clear, still a little cloudy but not to bad. Had to back wash my sand filter so that may have...

Just got my TF-100 Test kit! I feel like a chemist now :lol:

ok sounds good. I will just do what you all have been suggesting till next week. Will post what I find then. Thanks for all your help folks!