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Cover pit is clean, cleared everything out at opening. I'm pretty sure the smell is coming from the water. I can smell it on the kids after they've gotten out of the water.

No, not fishy. Musty. Like the health club shower!

Sun is setting here now, so hard to get that sparkly picture.

I haven't posted in a while because my pool has been trouble free!! This season opened up late April to a beautiful, sparkling pool. It's been rainy and a terrible spring here in Chicago. My pool has been blue, but had a few bouts of looking like it may go south so I started SLAM. My problem is...

Thanks, I wasn't sure if "pure chlorine" was the same as "chlorine gas" in the pool math calculator...though I suppose I could've checked my answer there to see if it made sense selecting chlorine gas as the source :) I know on the CYA, was trying to get through the SLAM and stabilize before...

If an Intellichlor IC20 produces 0.70 lbs of pure chlorine every 24 hours on a 100% setting (per the manual), would that equate to about 4.0ppm of FC in a 20,600 gallon pool? Here's my math: ppm = mg/L .70 lbs = 317,514 mg 20,600 gallons = 77,979 L FC ppm = 317,514 mg/77,979 L = 4.07 ppm What...

Yes, it is the same as the link above. I meant the Taylor K-2006 test kit CYA test. That thing is hard to get a good CYA reading when your level is low.

I just got this Pentair CYA test kit today and absolutely love it. Granted I need to get my CYA up, but it was perfect to see that my dot doesn't disappear until the slider is almost exactly between 20 and 30. With my Taylor kit, it's really hard to see the dot change with the lower numbers...

Today is day 3 of my SLAM. My CYA is 40, I tested a bunch of times transferring solution back and forth trying to get a reading, I settled on CYA of 40 to err on the side of caution, so using 16 as my target FC level instead of 12. I tested 7 times on day 1 between 4pm and 11pm, adding enough LC...

OK, that's what I was thinking. Thanks for all of your help today, I appreciate it!