Recent content by WillowWii

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    Automatic pool covers, thoughts?

    I have to comment on this because it is just not true for all covers and bad advice to boot. I speak from 20 years experience with two different pools covered by Coverstar auto covers, The first ten years was in the Chicago area and the second ten here in New England. Both with record snows...
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    Keep dumping chlorine in?

    Sorry I didn't/ don't see the test box...where is it? We have an auto soild cover so no swamp water in the spring. Its pretty clear when we first open it. The cover keeps everything out except a few acorns the chipmunks toss in from inside the reel box. We do wonder if something the...
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    Keep dumping chlorine in?

    I did read the pool school before posting How are these figures a random guess? 7/2: FC - 0, CC - 0, pH - 7.5, TA - 100, CH - 250, CYA - 35, Phosphates 0 water tested with a Taylor FAS-DPD kit, also separate checks with aquacheck, hth, and guardex tests... all with same results. I thought...
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    Keep dumping chlorine in?

    For the past two years we have not been able to keep any chlorine in our pool for more then 30 mins. Prior to that we used very little chlorine because the cover keeps the level up. We have already added 20 shock doses in the past month. We shocked it ten times in one day. This amount lasted...