My husband and I bought our house this December, pool covered, closed and winterized, and then untouched for five years. We knew we had a challenge ahead of us. We opened up the beginning of this month to a swamp, and because we were scared we went to our local pool store and, well, got minimal help, minimal education and maximum bills. I have been doing deep and heavy research into trying to get this pool into shape and have started SLAM. My biggest problems are:
1. PINE TREES EVERYWHERE. Literally about 2 dozen surrounding the perimeter of my property. We cut them back and will be removing this fall. Any helpful hints about keeping the needles at bay would be wonderful.
2. Additional test kits. The testkit I bought is wonderful and quite fun to use, but I don't have a way to measure CYA. I've looked online for stand alone CYA kits and all I find are the "dot" testers where you get your level when the dot disappears. I have pretty bad vision and have horrid depth perception and I'm afraid I won't be able to read it correctly. Any other suggestions for testing CYA? Also, my chlorine tester doesn't go over ten. Is that high enough? It doesn't seem like it will be able to help me with my SLAM
3. The cover for the pool was a mesh kind that anchored into the ground, after freezing and thawing in Upstate NY it did not fair well and we will be replacing, buttttt, it also flaked a kabillion teensy greenish plastic bits into my pool. I have new filters coming in, the old filters are taxed out and literally need to be washed every hour because the jets lose about 90% of their strength after that time. . Should I floc to get rid of the green bits? I feel like my summer is half gone and we haven't made much progress.
4. I can get the pool to a cloudy dark blue but the second I brush it turns green black, PoolStore people said I should vacuum till I can see the bottom. Would it really be bad if I vacuumed to waste just to get the bulk of the Crud out? We have already manually scooped out as much as we can for not being able to see what we're going in at. The stuff that comes out is a black green muck. We also have sand/silt sandy stuff at the bottom of the filter when we take it out to wash them off.
I could go on and on. Honestly any advice is so appreciated.
pH was 7.2, FC 2-3, TC 3-5, TA 100, when I started slamming.
Dropped 5 gals of Superchlor in this evening, tested when I got out of work at 11 and my FC and TC we're beyond what my test kit can read so I guess that isn't super helpful, but I wanna give any info I have.
Thanks everyone.
1. PINE TREES EVERYWHERE. Literally about 2 dozen surrounding the perimeter of my property. We cut them back and will be removing this fall. Any helpful hints about keeping the needles at bay would be wonderful.
2. Additional test kits. The testkit I bought is wonderful and quite fun to use, but I don't have a way to measure CYA. I've looked online for stand alone CYA kits and all I find are the "dot" testers where you get your level when the dot disappears. I have pretty bad vision and have horrid depth perception and I'm afraid I won't be able to read it correctly. Any other suggestions for testing CYA? Also, my chlorine tester doesn't go over ten. Is that high enough? It doesn't seem like it will be able to help me with my SLAM
3. The cover for the pool was a mesh kind that anchored into the ground, after freezing and thawing in Upstate NY it did not fair well and we will be replacing, buttttt, it also flaked a kabillion teensy greenish plastic bits into my pool. I have new filters coming in, the old filters are taxed out and literally need to be washed every hour because the jets lose about 90% of their strength after that time. . Should I floc to get rid of the green bits? I feel like my summer is half gone and we haven't made much progress.
4. I can get the pool to a cloudy dark blue but the second I brush it turns green black, PoolStore people said I should vacuum till I can see the bottom. Would it really be bad if I vacuumed to waste just to get the bulk of the Crud out? We have already manually scooped out as much as we can for not being able to see what we're going in at. The stuff that comes out is a black green muck. We also have sand/silt sandy stuff at the bottom of the filter when we take it out to wash them off.
I could go on and on. Honestly any advice is so appreciated.
pH was 7.2, FC 2-3, TC 3-5, TA 100, when I started slamming.
Dropped 5 gals of Superchlor in this evening, tested when I got out of work at 11 and my FC and TC we're beyond what my test kit can read so I guess that isn't super helpful, but I wanna give any info I have.
Thanks everyone.
& u can have another person look at it if u wish. its just a glance & either there’s a dot or not then u just look @ the water level on the outside of the tube to determine what level u r @
