Recent content by zea3

What you are seeing is a reaction between your copper ground wire and the stainless steel panel. I don't think the affected area is going to spread, but I'd like one of our sciency folks to give an opinion. The copper ground should not touch the stainless steel panel. You should straighten...

Hi, welcome to TFP! That looks like DE to me! Either there was some "user error" going on or you have a hole in your grids. Can you post some photos of your equipment area, especially the filter and any valves in or out of it? Do you know if they did any work on the filter?

Hopefully PZF will confirm, but I believe the wall with siding is the pool house and the screen room is attached to the main house. If this is true removing the screen room and converting it to a patio would add a safe margin to approach the pool.

A low wooden deck with railing would be nice in the area by the door and provide some safety. If that is the only outside water tap you have you might consider relocating it. The less reason people have to walk in that gap the safer it will be.

Back before someone decided to market DE scoops that are a standard "1 pound" size, DE was measured using 1lb coffee cans. One 1 lb coffee can of DE eventually came to be called 1 lb of DE. The correct way to measure it is to buy a DE scoop, which will give the correct volume of DE with 1...

We had 94% in Houston. Very overcast today but we managed a few peeks at the eclipse through the clouds. Didn’t seem to darken much at all, but that could have been the clouds.

True, but sometimes in a pinch you have to take whatever you can get.

I just wanted to remind our members how important it is to read the labels on household bleach before you use it in your pool. I had noticed what looked like a good price on store brand bleach ($1.25 for 64 ounces). When looking at the label the strength was 1.5%! Splash Free bleach (which we...

You know somebody is going to sue somebody who shows up for the eclipse, stays in the house, and gets mad the weather prevented them from enjoying the whole eclipse experience and the homeowner refuses a full refund.

I hope this is a case of the owner having a terrible sense of humor and not him trying to pull a fast one on a female. His people improperly drained your pool and caused damage, they should compensate you. Even if the pool is functional now you are at a higher risk of rust intrusion at the...

Keep an eye on the crumpled areas of the wall. Make sure there are no scratches or chips in the paint that may start to rust in the future. If you see any bare metal touch it up with a rust inhibiting paint. Also check and make sure the bottom of the wall is seated in the bottom track all the...

Yes. Keeping the pH on the low end of the acceptable range will help the calcium stay in solution in the pool water and not deposit on tiles, walls, and floor. As the calcium releases back into solution you should notice your CH test result rise a bit.

It looks like your pH tends to run on the high side. Have you had a large fresh water replacement lately? It looks like last season your CH was at 400 and its currently showing 250. 400ppm for CH is not outrageous but it is on the high side. With persistently high ph that could cause scale...

You can get it cleaned up using the , however it will require frequent chlorine additions the first few days and daily vacuuming. It will also require the use of an FAS/DPD test kit to get test results for those frequent chlorine additions. You would need to test the water before getting...