Recent content by T&CFontaine

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    Help with the next step

    I am not able to test that often today, but will be able to keep on top of it since the weekend is right around the corner! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Help with the next step

    Yes, I am maintaining a FC of 16. We had a cloudy day here yesterday so that helped a bit. Added chlorine before bed and it was at 12.5 this morning. I added more to get it back to 16 and will check it again now during lunch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Help with the next step

    I spent this morning scrubbing away! The dolphin is in now. We do have a new pup that loves the pool...that is something that has changed since the previous years. Are there any precautions we should be taking as far as balancing goes? We are working on training him to stay out on our command...
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    Help with the next step

    Yes, we are testing and adding. I have the chlorine/cya chart printed out and next to the test kit. Thanks for double checking though! - - - Updated - - - I am certain that we did not maintain. Our CYA was up high and we couldn't keep enough chlorine in the thing. We made a few other mistakes...
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    Help with the next step

    Hello, We are new to posting, but not new to creeping and reading TFP's advice. I hope someone can help. We had an algae outbreak a couple of weeks ago and still trying to get back to beautiful water. I used the SLAM method and it worked...only to have the algae problem come back. We did a...
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    T&CFontaine-Converting to BBB slowly but surely

    Hello everyone! We put in our pool in 2009 and having our first rough summer as far as balancing our pool goes. We have been creeping TFP for a couple years. Thanks to TFP we bought our Taylor test kit, but my husband has some trouble staying out of the pool store. He second guesses our results...