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    Thank you for 4 years trouble-free!

    I don't contribute much (read: at all), but I just wanted to chime in to say thank you to all who contribute to this site! I have had my pool for just over 4 years now (it's a ~15k gal Blue Haven gunite/pebble plaster/salt water/cartridge filter pool). From the time I filled in up in early...
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    Thanks for pointing that out. I was just guessing; it has Blue Haven stickers all over it so I don't know the model number. Most of last year I ran my SWCG between 4-7% which kept my chlorine between 2.5-7 ppm all year. It's been a screening hot summer so far, so just bumped it to 10% the...
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    Sheesh...the installers either absolutely smoked down the b-nut or they got some glue on it. I flat cannot get it off. I tried a pipe wrench, but stopped before I tear something up. It's going to need backing wrenches at a minimum and might even need to just cut the b-nuts off. Either way...
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    Thanks for the advice...going to take a look at my cell now.
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    I am going to clean the cells and baseline it against my K-1766 kit and post up what I find.
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    I did have some significant rainfall in late fall that brought the water up to the point of overflow. Otherwise, I don't loose much water to evaporation--and salt does not evaporate, of course. I suppose I could be splashing and carrying a good bit out with the kids and my wife and I using it...
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    I haven't cleaned my cell since my pool was put in April-before-last (shame on me). I will go out and clean the cells today. I just pull up the manual and it says to clean every 3 months. I have been so diligent about testing and cleaning everything else on my pool, but I forgot about the SWCG.
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    Thanks for the info. I guess I will break down and test for a leak. If I do have one, I suspect it is only near the top (I like to keep my pool relatively full). I do have the Taylor K-1766 along with the 2006, by the way.
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    Sorry for the delay, guys. I updated my sig with all my particulars. I have the K-1766 (along with the K-2006) and did test my water. My reading came in around 2800 ppm with the K-1766 test kit, which should have been good but the system was giving me the low salt light
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    Have had to add 120 lb salt to pool in one year

    First: my pool is now ~14 months old and has yet to see a minute of anything other than crystal clear water....all thanks to this site...so, thank you all!!! Onto the question: I am about to have to add my third 40 lb bag of pool salt to my 1 year-old, 14,000 pebble-plaster pool in an effort to...
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    Phosphates - to treat or not?

    Disclaimer... this is my 2nd post... and as I said in the first, I am and still remain a total pool noob. =[ How many posts does it take to shed the noob status, by the way? ...jk ...forum humor =] While I am prepared to acquiesce to the experience and recommendations of the site...
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    High CYA

    Moved from HERE Sorry...am a total pool noob, but I gotta ask.... Why can't one just wait out a moderately high CYA? Won't it lower itself in short order?
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