Recent content by zcurley

Woohoo! Thanks for the insight. Happy to find something else to worry about!

We are a few weeks into our first summer with our 15'x48" intex easy set pool. So far so good... we think. The water looks and feels good. We consistently add about 3 cups of liquid chlorine each day per pool math and all seems well. However, our ph as per our daily test is always at about...

Thanks so much!

Trapped in the filter makes sense. Thanks. Got carried away by the chlorine riddle and haven't gotten to the ph, TA, etc. Will do in morning. Just to confirm, the new poolmath based on 60ppm cya, my current fc level of 1ppm and the target fc of 7ppm, the app now recommends adding 29 oz of...

I have not backwashed since then. Should I? I only backwashed during the pump set-up mode before adding anything to pool.

Understood re: skimmer method, scratching off the list. Just added my signature info. Krystalclear Intex SF 90110 sand filter.

First added the stabilizer with sock dangling in front of return. 2nd time mixed it with water and poured in skimmer per friends advice.

Marty, Thanks for responding so quickly. I really do not understand what I'm doing, despite having read the abc's. According to what I have put into the pool math app, the recommended FC is 3.0. When I do the test for FC, I get a reading of .5 which I have rounded up to 1 but that still...

Sorry to say we are flailing about during our maiden voyage to get our 15' x 48" easy set chemistry right. Our reading of the stabilizer test has been plagued by, what seems to be fairly common based on other posts, struggles with confidence about when the black dot disappears. After two...