Recent content by Thunderheart

Thanks for the tip Stev32k. It turns out that once we added the DE, the water cleared. The pressures did go up to 24 psi, but the polaris barely moved suggesting that atleast for us, 24 psi with the current sand level is simply too high. Ours operates best at around 14 psi. Unfortunately...

Excellent descriptions Geekgranny. Your are the best! I look forward to trying all these out and will post my results. FINALLY.....clearer water! :whoot: For those who are interested in my results...okay terrible miscalculation on the TA last night. Brain blip! It was actually 125 ppm at...

Thanks for this great info Geekgranny! I will go out tomorrow and get the panty hose. Hubby has had great patience until today :rant: . I gave up a couple days ago. :grrrr: This evening we added the DE as suggested as we just cannot get the water cleared. We must have a filter issue as...

I am using the Taylor kit currently but have found the aquachem strip to closely approximate the Taylor results. Water is still cloudy but bluer. Will have to order the FAS-DPD test as no one locally (15 miles from me) carries it. But, I will continue to shock with bleach and look into hiring...

Hi again and thanks for the info. We backwashed the filter again (4th time in 10 days) and brought the water to FC of 24 (theoretically) with 6% bleach last night. At night we can see that there is in fact bleached out broken down leaf debris at the bottom drain. Not much but difficult to...

Thanks for the info Les! No debris on the bottom except for the "fine dust". Okay so this may explain the situation. Once we got back here we noted the "sand" on the bottom of the pool which was somewhat clear at that time. Then we brushed and stirred the "dust" up over the the next day or so...

Hi, In advance, thanks to all for the wonderful advice found here and in the Pool Forum!! I have learned enough to make my head "swim" :-) I am new to the swimming pool world and about to throw my hands up! We bought a 2 year vacant home that came with this lovely frog sanctuary, which I...