Recent content by zimmech

I would be grateful for your advice/suggestions

We do indeed get leaves, branches and helicopters (maple seeds) in our pool - - 4 giant maples line our pool. Great question, I hadn't thought to mention that!

What does everyone reccomend for a reasonably priced automatic pool cleaner? We have a 23,000 gallon vinyl lined inground pool.

Thank you, everyone on trouble free pool! We followed the BBB method last summer, and this year opened to a sparkling blue pool! Couldn't be happier with the results - we so appreciate everyone's posts and advice. We are looking forward to a great pool season! Cheryl & Bill

How do you keep frogs out of the pool? I think they are adorable, and don't mind them swimming in the pool at night and sitting on top of the solar cover when not in use, but I came home to find hundreds of frog eggs on the pool steps this afternoon. Any ideas to help move them without killing...

We are keeping up with the shock, but still can't see the deep end. My husband dove down to the main drain last night, and found the drain was plugged with sticks (a lot of sticks) and leaves. He cleared that up, and there wasn't much other sediment down there. So hopefully sparkly clear...

Dattia, thanks, I never get tired of encouragement! We didn't lose any fc overnight, but water is still cloudy in the deep end. Maybe, when I come home from work today... :-D

Your pool is beautiful! Great job!

Still a milky blue pool, but we can see more into the deep end today. My husband is changing the sand, hoping new sand will help clear out the pool. The filter was new on 2001, and the pool hasn't been used since at least 2006, so it may be 10 year old sand. I'm hoping to wake up to sparkly...

No change from yesterday. Lost just 1 fc overnight and cc holding steady at 1. Can see the botom of the shallow and maybe 5 feet into deep end. I was hoping today would be the big day - high supposed to be around 90. Late 80's to low 90's all week - so maybe tomorrow will be the day! lol...

We can clearly see the wrinkles in the bottom of the shallow end this morning! Yay! Won't be long now! This "POP" stuff really works! -Cheryl

That makes sense about the cal-hypo and the Ch levels. After last weekend, we switched to bleach only. A local pool store sells a gallon of 12.5% for $3.70 so we have been stocking up! I would say the water is a milky blue-green. Supposed to be 90 and muggy this weekend and hot hot hot...

Thank you so much for the encouragement! That is just what we wanted to hear! Yesterday's late afternon reading was fc 9.5 and pH 7.2, so I added more Borax to increase pH to 7.4. Then I realized (too late) that my pH reading may have been off due to shocking? I will buy some MA this...

Is it possible for the pool to get clearer and more cloudy at the same time? We can now see about 3 feet in, but there are clouds of white throughout the pool. Is the Borax I added last night causing that?

Overnight FC loss test: FC 12 (loss of 3 - much better!) cc 1.5 pH 7.4 (the borax we added worked great!) Pool still cloudy, but I know it will be sparkly soon and we will be swimming in that cold water! Time to get a solar cover :wink: Does anyone have the clear kind and like it better...