Recent content by TB1228

Hi, I'm trying to find out what's the difference between a fiberglass, vinyl, and concrete inground pool. Which do people prefer and for what reasons? I did a search but couldn't come up with anything, if this has been debated before, can someone send me a link. Searching on the internet...

It turns out the hoses were connected the wrong way, the return hose which should have been connected to the top of the filter valve was connected the bottom one. so that's why everytime I backwashed it came out clear. Whooo I'm sooo happy, me & my family got in the pool for the first time...

not leaves, just brown stuff. I have a sand filter., haywood.

The pool is new to me, I just bought the house and the pool came with it. I've been doing everything the pool people and the forums have been telling me to do. I make sure I unplug my filter before switching gears. I changed the spider gasket which is now working perfectly. Still I have the...

Ok so the water is still green, a cloudy green but green nonetheless. I went back to the pool store and they told me to hit it with more chlorine. Anyway, my concern to them was that EVERY SINGLE TIME i backwash my water comes out clear from start to finish then when I turn it to rinse the...

ok so now the filter is leaking out the backwash in all positions. I had to turn off the filter and put it in closed position cause our backwash hose is too short and the pool was emptying into our neighbors yard. When it was on it was running between 5-10psi at the most. What could cause...

ok the pool finally looks a little better. new problem though, when i have the sand filter on filter a little bit of continous water is coming out the backwash/waste hose, any idea why? we've had the filter on non-stop for about a week trying to get a green water issue resolved and was told...

Ok so I went and had the water tested today. I wrote down everything I needed to know, here's what I got back: Alkalinity 160 pH 7.6 total chlorine 3.0 calcium hardness 200 stabilizer 60 Any advice?

It happened after we vacuumed the bottom. It went through the vacuum and came out on the return right back and now it's on top and turned the whole water green.

thanks for the advice I just ordered the kit. My next question is: We've been going at this for about 2 weeks now. What would happen if we just emptied the pool completely and then just started off fresh with new water?

So my pool is green. I took a sample to the pool store and they said all my levels were reading real low. They gave me 20lbs of Total Alk to put into the pool an hour later they told me to put 10lbs of Ph+ into the pool slowly then an hour later I had to put 6 lbs of durashock into the...