Recent content by Sunny Blues

I swear this post looks absolutely identical to another one from recent days. 🤔 Myself, I would add chlorine first. Your green water will probably eat through your chlorine so you want SLAM levels constantly all day every day until it is clear. So get that going. Shoot for maintaining 10ppm...

It also just occurred to me that there really is extreme information overload at pool stores or in the pool sections, and I bet it’s intentional. If you start to feel that it’s just too much to wrap your head around (and it is if you’re using pool store/pool service chemicals,) well then it...

It IS confusing at first. I remember that when I started. It took me a long time to understand what to look for. CYA is sometimes called “stabilizer”. Look for the ingredients and it should only have cyanuric acid as the active ingredient. We sometimes get the granular Clorox brand at Walmart...

I live in northern Illinois Chicago suburbs. We just had our liner replaced this spring. Our pool is a Grecian 16x32, 6ft deep end with full stairs at shallow end. All quotes were $7200-$7900. We paid $7200 which included everything and two trucks of fill water. Liner, measuring, draining, all...

I would truly kick the pool store to the curb for real this time. Those products you just used are “pool store” (industry) chemicals and concoctions, so they didn’t get kicked to the curb. Depending if you continued to use them and/or others late last summer or at closing they would be...

You’re wasting sooooo much money buying the chemicals your husband has used. And then you need different chemicals to combat what they have done to the pool. Why bother? Chlorine doesn’t need all that help. After converting to TFPC, I went from spending over $2,400/year on chemicals and...

When I first read Pool School I made sure to follow every link (blue highlighted words) in each article and read those too.

Also, make sure to thoroughly clean every nook and cranny of your skimmer. Scrub it down well. Be sure your vacuum is also thoroughly cleaned so it’s not adding algae back into the pool either. Just a couple things to be certain of.

Yep!!! That expired chlorine probably isn’t even 4% now. The Woodman’s with a best by date of 2025 is fresh!!! It’s good. Usually the best by date is one year after manufacturing so it was probably bottled in Feb or Mar of this year. Mine is best by Feb 2025. I’m planning to use it before...

Using pool math, calculate how much acid you need to reduce your pH to 7.2. Add that. Then let the pH raise naturally, or use a fountain to induce surface bubbles to raise it faster. Let your pH rise to 7.6. Then test alkalinity again. If it’s still not below 100, do that process again. We...

Yes, please don’t forget that this is not representative of what a typical TFP year is like after opening your pool. Don’t judge it by what you have had to go through to fix your water. If you stick with us you will see next spring just how different it really is. My opening last year...

We certainly had a torrential downpour last night, didn’t we? LOL Hopefully nothing on your solar cover is reintroducing anything into your pool? I wonder if that is possible? We stopped using ours when we started TFP. I know they are great and all but we found it a cumbersome headache to use...

Yes but I learned this in our first two years here, when I was just learning too. It served me well. That’s why our 13 year record was achieved. How can a CYA of 50 be a costly mistake?

I live in northern Illinois and anything 40 ppm or less we found more cumbersome to maintain. We stay between 50-70 and have not had a single swampy episode in 13 years, not even a trace of algae. We haven’t had to do any slamming the rest of the season after opening the pool. That’s the only...