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Well the salt cell appears to be dead. Acid washing didn’t help and both the cell and life lights continue to blink. 😕

Thanks! Bottom is clearly visible. Pool looks great!

While I figure out the salt cell, kids and fam are asking if they can get in the pool. FC is in range for the CYA chart and CC is < .5. Water is clear so I assume I can treat it like a non-SWCG pool and they are good to go and I’ll just keep monitoring FC/pH?

Thanks all for the well wishes and comments! This community is fantastic and I wouldn’t have been able to finish out the clean up so quickly without all the great advice and feedback! I’ve been raising salt and also cya (slowly). I’m circumspect that the salt cell will not work so I don’t want...

Planning to start the salt increase tomorrow.

Thanks for the feedback! I have salt being delivered Friday and was considering doing that anyway so I appreciate the advice! Will do!

Good morning. :) OCLT from last night - .5ppm (from 12 to 11.5ppm) CC - barely turned pink, .5ppm As for clarity, pics attached. Looking pretty good to a newbie!

I have a question about next steps for all of you knowledgeable folks. I live out in a rural area so it takes awhile to get supplies. My wife had to go on a 40min each way drive today to stock up in more liquid chlorine to continue the shock. Once the Shock portion is passed, what’s next for a...

I do not have a leaf rake. Will need to get one! I was able to get 95% of it out with slooow vacuuming. There is a small amount of stuff left that appears to be rocks/heavy particles that don’t really get off the bottom.

Ah. I can do that. 😀

Any advice on how to get the debris out of the deep end? I tried vacuuming but it’s larger leaf pieces that do not want to cooperate.

At this point should I keep trying to maintain 12ppm? The water is pretty clear now and you can even see the quarter in my pic. 1.5ppm down in 16h since the sun went behind the trees and .5 CC (barely turned pink at all).