Recent content by wfrobinette

I get that they are covered there. My concern is that people will miss the point about draining once they click the post on the AA treatment. I did and I am sure others have as well. Maybe moving " Generally, there is no practical way to remove iron or copper from the water short of replacing...

Mine as well. Unless you want to keep adding sequest from now until eternity, you'll have to drain and fill to get rid of the metals in the water. I've been through this earlier in the year before I found this site and lost the pool for a few weeks. Only to have stains reappear a few weeks...

I was on a facebook post the other day and mentioned BBB and that there is no such thing as chlorine lock. Got laughed off the thread. One lady said buy a salt pool to avoid chlorine use. I said she had chlorine in her pool and she refused to believe be, even posted how NaCl is converted to...

Don't do it. At least not now if you want to guarantee you'll be swimming in the next week(I lost 2 weeks). I followed this to a T (twice) only to have stains return a few weeks later. Metal Magic now has them at bay. And I will drain and fill a few time prior to close to get the metal out...

Yes it did take much longer. About 2 days of fountain running for 10 hours to raise it from 7.2 to 7.4 OK. Wanted to provide an update. Since SLAM finished. FC 7 ppm (with salt generator at 60%) CC = 0 CYA = 75 (Right in the middle of the rec for SWG) TA = 80 (required 3 drops with my...

The pool store likely has old bleach because they push pucks and other granular shock Use Lowes and Walmart have 10% pool chlorinating liquid. It's 3.74 a gal and it's my go to product. Wal-Mart also has Pool Essentials 2pk Pe Chlorinating Liquid(10%) at 6.44 Any unscented bleach (if it...

How much per week?

After reading this and suffering stains coming back I decided to give metal magic a try at a dose of 2 qts for 19k gal in vinyl pool. 36 hours in the darker stains have noticibly lightened and the lighter ones have disappeared. Lights and returns are bright white again. fC dropped a bit and PH...

Let's hope I never get a raccoon. That doesn't look like a fun remediation.

Are you sure your gallons are correct? The other thing I always like to do is break my doses up. If it says add 4. I start with 1/2 to 2/3 of the recommended dose. Let it circulate 4 to 8 hours and retest. I'd rather work my way up or down slowly rather than overshoot and have to adjust in...

7/13 and Final Update. FC holding steady at 7 PPM when SWG is off overnight. SWG set at 70% to maintain levels. CC = 0 CYA 60 - Will bring up to 70 but taking my time here. PH 7.4 TA 100 - will play with this once I get CYA and Borates in my range. Borates 20 ppm (Will up this this weekend...

Yes Typo 7/10 Update FC dropped slowly throughout the day yesterday to 18ppm a 10 ppm drop during the hot and sunny day. (Prior to slam it would eat 2 gal of 10% bleach every 2 to 3 hours or so or 30+ ppm per day Salt at 1800 ppm. Added salt to reach 3200. FC was ~ 17ppm at 6:30 AM. That's 2...

Update 7/9/2017 Did a mustard Algae level to ensure I was tackling any and all algae. FC 35 ppm at 10 PM 7/8 FC > 34 ppm at 7:30 AM CC = 0 Water clear SLAM was successful. I'm assuming that my previous attempt at SLAM with a too high CYA and replacing so much water helped speed this up...

Update 7/8/2017 9:45 AM. Did 2 x 24 inch drain and fills Didn't bother testing CYA after 1st because I was so high.. CYA now ~ 60. A little low for SWG but I wanted to account for any margin of errors and rather be low and edge it up then high. Pool still very clear Copper now < 0.4 PPM I...

I'd have been better off renting scuba equipment and getting a bottle or two of pills and spot treating the whole pool, I'd be $150 ahead now.