Recent content by ToniMarie

So my pool was just opened today and my pool stairs are so dirty. What are some good options to clean white vinyl pool stairs? I normally keep up with it throughout the summer using a magic eraser which works great but they just look like they could use some extra love this season. Any...

Just to update on this, I checked my pool a week later and I've had no water loss. I'm going to give it another week and check again. I think I was just dealing with evaporation at this point, or it might have been associated with my light and just reached the point of the leak and stopped. It...

So if I attempt the bucket test, do I place the bucket on the stairs and then recover the pool with the mesh cover and check it the next day. I've never performed one on a pool that was closed before. I'm wiling to try, but I want to make sure I do it correctly. It's clearly stopped some of...

So my pool was closed last week and I had told my pool guy about noticing that my pool dropped in August about 1 1/2 inches a week. It was still happening even after draining my pool below the skimmer and jets. He pretty much said it could either be the main drain or behind the light. He...

August in New England has been wacky weather - specifically the Boston area. I've been losing 1 - 1 1/2 inches of pool water a week since the second week of August. I didn't add any water in June or July at all - just in August. They came to close my pool yesterday. I told my pool guy the...

All good to know. My CYA never moved since early summer. I don't have salt, I use chlorine. I am still shocked at how drastic evaporation can be on certain days and my house is about 2 houses away from the ocean so between the temps and the breeze at night, August has been unreal. I'm...

Hi everyone, So it's that time of year in New England (Boston) where the pool is getting ready for closing. This has been my first full year of pool maintenance on my own. I must say, it was a bumpy road. This site has been extremely helpful. June was wild getting the pool balanced, clear...

So it’s been 24 hours and these are my test results. It looks like about 1/4 an inch in both. I had a hard time marking the blue line inside the bucket so that’s why it’s so think. However, I used a tape measure and it came to about 1/4. I’m going it another day.

Hi! I just had a basic question regarding leaks. Would having a leak mess with your pool chemistry? I thought I read somewhere that you might feel like you were adding more chemicals than normal. I have a previous post about evaporation rates and determining evaporation vs. leak. I did...

It feels so good to know that I am not the only one questioning this! All summer has been perfect until these past weeks. It's not so much a bother topping it off each week (granted the water bill might tell me otherwise when it comes in). I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy or...

Hi! So I am from Massachusetts. This June/July we had some super hot/humid days. However, we also had enough rain that I didn't pay attention to evaporation. About two weeks ago I started to notice (or so I thought) that my pool was slowly losing some water. I never really thought about the...

My FC has remained the same for the past two days. Guess I passed the Chlorine lost test!