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My spillover spa has a dedicated Hayward pump with a Century motor. The pump badge is too faded to get any information from, but I'm pretty sure it's an old Super. The motor is about ten years old judging from the previous owner's notation with a paint pen on the motor. Lately when I turn it...

Pool Water 1 part vodka 1 part lime juice 1 part blue curaçao

I doubt the last one I was in was TFP certified, but it was owned by a chemical engineer who worked for a water-treatment facility. Again, I'm definitely in the minority. I think I'm cursed with being able to taste it more than others... which is weird, because I salt my food like there's no...

Make sure that you've been in a salt-water pool before going that route. I'm definitely in the minority, but I'm one of those people who find it to be like swimming in beef broth. The five minutes a day it takes me to add liquid chlorine is well worth it to me. Wal-Mart delivers the chlorine to...

Ah, thanks. Next time I get in I'll do an inventory. My memory at this time is that at least a few of them are crescent shaped, but I'll have a better idea of what to look for now that I know that there's a such thing as rebar rust creeping through the finish.

I suppose that's a job for a PebbleTec rep. (?) At least you've saved me the trouble of trying to scrub out the rebar stains with vitamin C tablets. It might be time to get the scuba gear out of storage for the nail marks.

Heh. Yeah, I removed a few myself and the robot got a few too. So what's to be done about rebar rust? Get used to it? There are other spots that look the same. There are definitely some marks that coincided with nails that I retrieved myself, but I haven't tried vitamin C on any but the...

This is snapped from above water. It's the one that got the Vitamin C tablet.

No, but I'll probably find another in the yard eventually if that helps.

There is a lighter patch of aggregate surface around the the nail mark now, so it evidently did something. Just not much to the nail mark.

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. They claim that it removes a number of different metals, but I'm more inclined to trust TFP than their marketing materials.

I will have to get back to you on that. The old phone in a Ziploc trick didn't yield a useful photo.

I'm a new owner of an old pool. The seller replaced the roof before we purchased, and they let roofing nails sit in the water while the house was on the market. There are several nail-sized rust stains. I tried scrubbing one with a Vitamin C tablet and couldn't tell that it had any effect...

Do your future self a solid and forget that this option exists. There are too many avenues to pain here. Also remember that many county agencies, especially in metro areas, review satellite imagery regularly now. Your headaches could start long before you're trying to sell.

Granules are the most cost effective by far. Read the link about using a sock in your skimmer basket. Make sure your filter is relatively clean before you put the CYA in. You don't want to have to clean it till after you know your CYA is fully dissolved. Give it a week to be safe, even though...

If you're hooked up to a sewer and your house has a cleanout, you can drain to that.

Buying your own test kit was one of the best moves you'll ever make. CYA can take several days to fully disburse, especially when dumped in like that. No harm, the brushing will have helped some. Keeping your filter pump running will help, in part because larger CYA particles can catch in it...

Sincere thanks for this. I found 12 sets on Amazon shipped for about the same money that Inyo wants for one set before shipping. I'll also have them much sooner.

Pool-Store math

Yeah, it's operating fine. It just leaves a wet spot on the pad.

One of my diverter valves has a slow leak. I see several replacement parts available here. Should I go ahead and get the whole "upper valve kit" while I'm going to have the thing apart, or is there a fairly high likelihood that just replacing the o-rings will solve the problem?

Thanks. I guess I'll start using the note function for that then.

I record my CYA as the best estimate that I can make based on when the dot actually disappears in my Taylor test. E.g., if it looks like it's 58, I record it as 58. I know that the advice is to assume that it's 60 for making calculations, but I think there's some (possible) value in tracking the...

Yes, they are one and the same. Sodium hypochlorite, no additives.

A properly executed SLAM practically guarantees that you'll kill enough of the algae floating in your water that it won't come back for as long thereafter as you maintain good water balance. The "dump and pray" method can kill off enough algae that your water appears clear (especially when...

Pool-store testing is notoriously unreliable. The sooner you internalize that, the sooner you're going to balance your water. If you're at all skeptical about it, take three samples of water that you gather at the same time to three different pool stores and compare the analyses they give you...

Trichlor is 52% cyanuric acid by weight. So every 8 oz. puck put in a pool adds a little over a ¼ pound of cyanuric acid. That accumulates frustratingly fast.

I'm far from a Pro, but in my n=1 experience, my acid additions decrease to almost nothing once my TA drops to 60. Higher than that, and I'm adding acid every other day. I followed the advice to let my TA settle where it naturally wants to, and it's working out well for me. Borates at 50 seem...