Recent content by tpjimmie

Well I wanted to follow up to give closure on this issue. This year I opened to more of the same stain. And I decided to do the acid bath and I just got finished. I used this article http://www.poolgeniusnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/the-zero-alkalinity-acid-treatment - to help me calculate the...

Thank you so much for the responses. I will try the no drain acid wash after season. Odd thing is its not gray or dark, its yellow/brown in color. Not sure if gray mottling is also yellow/brown. I still have a hard time believing it is algae. My CC readings are always 0 or less than .5 and...

[attachment=0:1d3mtcjg]IMG_20130718_194825_006.jpg[/attachment:1d3mtcjg]I am going to reopen this problem as I have never really figured out what it is. I have spent this season trying to identify it, then got frustrated and left it. The water has always been sparkling crystal clear. I can...

So if I had to guess I would say the chlorine removed the stain better than the acid doing the test again. Jason, would your advise be to shock the pool according to pool school? I have the 6% bleach on hand. Odd thing is, the water is crystal clear and you can not rub off the stains. I just...

Well I used some granular pH down and put in a sock and put it over the stain held in place with a big rock and I also put granular chlorine in a sock and did the same for 12 hours. Honestly I really can tell if either one of them did anything to the stains. I sort of think the acid did more...

Ok I have read and read so much on stains that I am confused. I have a pool that is exactly one year old. I seem to have some greenish brown moulting staining on the deep end and it seems to be getting worse and I can not rub them off. And some light brown green stains in some rough plaster...

We recently had a pool build and finished construction mid July of this year. Per the contract the pool co. is responsible for the first closing etc. I worked with them to close the pool so I had an idea of how it was done. Basically what they did was hook up a compressor to a plug in the...

Yes they are more than happy to put in a bigger meter and hook up............bigger meter.......bigger bill. ;)

We have brushed coping and stamped concrete deck. So far it is not slippery at all. Even when wet. I had fiber added to the mix, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Re: New build in springfield mo- update w/ pics Yeah thats first thing I noticed on the outdoor BBQ, the wood door. Love it. Going to be a nice pool too.

Not put in the Laminar deck jets. We hardly use them. We do however use the sunshelf with bubbling foot jets. I can get those to cascade 18" above water line. Kids love them and they look great. http://www.troublefreepool.com/our-pool-started-feb-28th-idaho-t29982.html I also wish we would...

I still have this to do as well. I will tackle this next year. The prep will be the most time consuming. I was going to use this product. http://www.hcconcrete.com/products/soli ... ed-sealer/ with an additive they call shark grip for slippage. It is a product you can get at a shermin...

We went with Gunite/Plaster, cost was about the same between liner and gunite. Cramar is right. We started the planning in Nov. of 2010 and started construction end of Feb 2011. It was a major up taking as it completely destroyed our back yard and route to the back yard. Winters come pretty...

Those are good points thank you so much. Hopefully I made a good choice, if not, you all will hear about it and hopefully it steers someone from this forum away from them. This is why I love this web site. Filled with personal experiences. The below is from the web page. Strength and...

All, Thanks so much for all your replies and help with this. I ended up going with HPI. I like the fact that the company had been around a while, they sew in the serial number on each cover so when time to replace, they can make up the cover exactly as it was sent to me. This means the...