- Nov 25, 2019
- 139
- Pool Size
- 19000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Truclear / Ei
7ft at drains 4ft at robot.
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How Clear is TFP Clear? Let's See (Pics Only Please).
- Thread starter Texas Splash
- Start date
- Jun 8, 2019
- 4,576
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
And today my pool is cloudy for the first time in a long time...because I'm going on vacation next week and decided to use some Seaklear as some insurance against an algae bloom. 
mguzzy
Gold Supporter
Don't forget to clean your filters....And today my pool is cloudy for the first time in a long time...because I'm going on vacation next week and decided to use some Seaklear as some insurance against an algae bloom.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,075
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I took this pic today for a thread about the Polaris cleane. That water is about 7' deep...
- Jun 8, 2019
- 4,576
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Already backwashed once!Don't forget to clean your filters....
Time to get out the vacuum >.>
mguzzy
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TheDeuce
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Can I play too?
TFP Newbie submission. Just finished my first SLAM of my "74,000 gallon" pool (see my thread / blog in Just Getting Started for the explanation on that).
m.
TFP Newbie submission. Just finished my first SLAM of my "74,000 gallon" pool (see my thread / blog in Just Getting Started for the explanation on that).
m.
TheDeuce
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- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,075
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I can see you want bragging rights but it looks like you have 74,000 liters which is about 20,000 gallons, not 74,000 gallons.
TheDeuce
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LOL - yup, but Poolmath promoted my pool when I switched to metric. FC was 40+ during SLAM before I picked up on the error.I can see you want bragging rights but it looks like you have 74,000 liters which is about 20,000 gallons, not 74,000 gallons.
m.
Where's the crud that's supposed to be on the floor of your pool?
TheDeuce
Gold Supporter
In the deep end chine. The horror. I stood there watching the Prowler robot its way around, above, below, to the left, and to the right of it. Headed right for the mud, did a full stop, and wandered over to the shallow end.
A watched robot cleans no mud.
m.
- Jun 11, 2018
- 388
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Still beautiful a little over a year after completion. TFP works for sure. I try to tell my all my friends with pools about TFP, but they all just want to buy stuff from the pool store or have a service do it for them. Their choice but I can’t afford those options, which is why I take care of the pool myself the TFP way.
TheDeuce
Gold Supporter
I actually spoke with a pool store employee about TFP. She basically said that the vast majority of their customers just don't want to put the effort into doing a TFP approach. They want to throw a few sticks in the skimmer once a week, dip a quick strip, and throw some magic elixir in every once in a while. She expressed admiration for my commitment to doing things the old way.
m.
- Jun 8, 2019
- 4,576
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
She’s not wrong. The thing that causes people to give up on the site is needing to add chlorine daily. But if you think of a pool like a pet you have to feed daily, it puts you in a better mindset.
mguzzy
Gold Supporter
I really don't think it takes that much time once you have it dialed in.. What? 10 min a day to give a quick pH and OTO check, then throw in the daily dosage of Cl.. I think its really the high bar you have to pass to get there. You have to educate yourself about how the process works. And a lot of people seem to have to endure at least one SLAM to get there. Most people won't want to go through that rite of passage. They would rather be spoon fed the answer, even a wrong one.
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Wobblerlorri
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- Apr 16, 2019
- 2,010
- Pool Size
- 4024
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Liquid Chlorine
I ran my old inground pool using sticks and shock once a week, tested daily. Now I use the TFP method. To me, there's not much difference in the time it takes, but the results are millions of light years apart. I think it's the fear of the unknown that keeps folks tied to the pool store.
Spoke to my ex-neighbor the other day and he spent $600 on chemicals from the pool store to open his ABG pool. We had a discussion about that and he is now ordering a test kit and doing it himself (as well as using the pool math app). He was using test strips which I told him to toss in the garbage as they're pretty much useless.