Recent content by Spyrus

Hi All, It's that time of year and I'm sure I am one of the many people asking questions about this but I am tired of paying $400 dollar each year for what seems like a quick job for the pool company to do. I open my pool each year and I am hoping to close it this year with some help from all...

Thank you! Dropped my backup sump pump in there and cleared it out quickly.

I'm not sure what this chamber is but I thought the water level was supposed to always stay low. We got a TON of rain last night and when I looked in this chamber/hole today it was the highest I've ever seen the water. Should I be worried? Should I try to get a pump down there to get it low...

I'll take your guess as I inherited it when I bought the house a few years ago. Is replacing it with the same the best option or are there other better options?

I was going through my annual opening this past week and pressure washed my pool decking and noticed the white just wasn't looking clean this year. It appears upon closer inspection that it's pealing away or something similar. What options do I have to fix or replace this? Also, any idea...

Re: Ammonia and confusion The ammonia test is a drop kit. I tested it on my tap water after I tested on my pool. Tap water shows about .5 ammonia and pool shows way over 8 like I stated. I was under the impression of what you are telling me though which is if I had ammonia then I wouldn't...

Ammonia and confusion I had another post about having high ammonia when I went to the pool store and wasn't sure what to do. I ended up running a pump on one side of my pool in the deep end and a hose on the shallow side for about 10 hours trying to filter out clean water. This fixed an issue...

OK, I've been a bit busy since my last post. I pumped out a bunch of water while putting water in. Today I tested the water and had the following: FC=3 CC=0 I added 1 Gallon of 8.25% bleach came back 30 min later and had: FC=5.5 CC=.5 TA=230 CYA=30 I added 2 more gallons of bleach and came...

First, thanks for the advice from all so far! Costco bag is a 1lb bag with: 63% Dichloro-s-triazinetrione .25% copper ~37% other I ran my tests using the TF-100 kit and I bought extra chlorine tests knowing i'd probably need it this year. I also grabbed the magnetic mixer to make things...