Recent content by TheDeuce

Thanks for the help everyone! I don't know if there's some weird law up here in Canada but the absence of ingredients on pool chemicals borders on the ubiquitous. When we first put in our pool the installer provided buckets of products with names like Balance Pak 100, Balance Pak 200, and so...

Hi everyone, I have a cannister of "Aquarius Spa Shock Chlorine Free Shock Treatment for Spa Water". Can anyone tell me what this stuff actually is? As usual, the product description says all kinds of things about what it does ("Concentrated spa shock treatment sanitizes spa", "Oxidizes and...

Here's a great write up on the issues with Baquacil: I was sitting with an inground pool customer last night that had owned her previous pool for about 19 years. It was a small, 12'x24' design with only about 7,000 gallons of water. She was in the process of tearing out her old pool and getting...

Welcome from Winnipeg! You're lucky to have found TFP so early in your pool ownership experience. I suffered through five years of pool ownership before I found this, the ultimate pool resource. m.

I'm having a subscription issue as well. I emailed for help but my emails bounced back. @Leebo

Time to SLAM your phone! m.

Hey guys, Need to know if I'm worrying about nothing. A couple of weeks ago I felt a sharp point in our liner. It looks like a small stone working it's way through the vinyl. I called our PB's service department several times and they're refusing to return my phone calls. Finally I got...

I'm in Manitoba too and I can confirm that a UV unit is useless, save for an indoor pool installation. I was sold one by our PB and it went out last summer (the GFI tripped). There was no difference in our pool water or chemical usage when it went out. Literally zero. This year it looks like...

Our pad is often wet from our heat pump but it looks like that's not what you have going on. Sometimes we get condensation if the weather is wildly humid though. m.

I would like to formally ask for permission to cut and paste this post in reply to some of the crackpot posts I'm seeing on the Facebook pool groups I take part in. m.

I think I have one that's equally entertaining. The Carefree Clearwater System! 100 % American device to disinfect the pools.. Bye bye chlorine.. For more information contact: 01111130953 Where this device adds 3 powerful metal elements to water (silver, copper, weight) and with specific...

Here's the TFP write up on ammonia: https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ammonia I hope Marty or one of the other experts weigh in since I'm not at their level of expertise but I can't help but notice that you have all of the symptoms of ammonia, even if my understanding of...

That said, I knew I'd read, somewhere, that disappearing CYA was a symptom of the presence of ammonia. I did some reviewing and found this: What are the Signs that Ammonia is in Pool Water? Disappearing CYA High CC Low ph Inability to hold chlorine level...

Like I mentioned elsewhere, when I hang out in the pool groups on Facebook I feel like the smartest guy in the room. Then I wander over here and I'm quickly cured of it! m.