Recent content by xpfreaks

I meant to report back sooner - finally finished with the conversion back around August 11ish and the water has been crystal clear and sparkling ever since. Thanks so much for all your advice and assistance. So glad I found this website.

Thanks so much for your help! I just called the hubby to have him add more bleach so I will check when I get home. I am not a chemist by any stretch of the imagination but what I understand from reading the very helpful information is that we need to continue to shock the pool until it gets...

I just wanted to add that I believe I misinterpreted the instructions for conversion. We waited until our pool held at 15ppm of FC overnight and added the CYA thinking that we just need to wait for the CC to reach .5. I realize now that we should have waited to add the CYA until the FC held...

The green cleared out and it is crystal clear. Should I still be adding bleach. I checked my numbers last night and they are the following: FC 8 CC 2.5 pH 7.4 CYA 5 Should I need to go ahead and add more stabilizer? It held steady around 50ppm and dropped way down over Tuesday night. We...

Thanks so much for the response. I will add the Borax and wait for the CC to go down if I do indeed need to add the sequestrant. Thanks for the warm welcome and the information I have found on this site has been so helpful. Thanks again - I'll post pictures soon.

Hope you all can help :-) We began our conversion on Saturday, July 24th and for the last two nights (Thursday and Friday) our FC held at 15ppm so my husband cleaned the filter and we added the CYA last night (Friday). I checked the levels today and they are the following: FC 15 CC 6 TC 21...