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Sequestrants act to "hide" the metals (copper, iron, etc) in solution and requires routine doses, but all that copper is still there. Its best to just remove the copper laden water and refill with fresh water.

Powdered products for chlorine add additional CYA or calcium to your pool alsong with the chlorine. I would perform a complete panel of tests again if you havent yet, just to make sure you are using the latest values for each level (particularly CYA, Calcium) Liquid chlorine is always preferable.

So. what chemicals has the pool store sold you lately? Here at TFP we use very few products from pool stores actually. We also do our own testing because pool store tests are often wrong, but they do sell a lot of chemicals, eh? Maddie :flower:

What I would do is use liquid chlorine to take your FC up to the desired level based on your CYA level, then turn the SWG on and allow it to maintain the desired level. The reason to do it this way is because SWGs work slowly, but steadily. It takes time to build up to that desired level when...

How high is your CYA? That's the first issue to determine. I suspect a good daily brushing while doing the SLAM process will work well for you. Take a picture in the same spot daily and post it here. Sometimes its easier to see improvement with pictures for comparison.

Is that as long as you can go? Tat makes for some mighty short races or laps as you daughter ages. 3' means you'll scrape you knuckles trying to swim in it. I'm wit PJT- 4-5-4 SportPool would help. kids float on noodles, floating chairs and loungers, etc. You daughter WILL be taller in no...

Make sure you take advantage of an free rain top off your pool up as its generally clean and metal free. If you know you're due for a gully washer, FREE CLEANish WATER!

Just an FYI: One gallon of 10% LC will take your 29k pool up by 5ppm. With CYA of 90, its gonna take a LOT of extra LC jugs hauled home to do a SLAM process. Madddie :flower:

<makes note to self to avoid *Dimension one Latitude.* Maddie 🌻

Smartypants Martybot!! LOL

Hey there Laura :wave: Welcome! It sounds like you're going to be a great TFP-er in no time!! If you want to laugh and cry over others pool reckonings and learning that its best to take things into their own hands, read some of this: I knew I was Pool Stored when... Maddie :flower:

Hi Joe, good morning. Sadly I doubt most folks would have access to the type of metal used on cells (it starts with an R but Ive forgotten the name). There is always a first Einstein so if you figure it out please share the deets. :eek: One improvement I can help you with though is to NOT use...

Yup, if your pool isn't getting sun because its covered yet with the SWG is still running day in and day out FC CAN build up more than you want. My SWG is generously oversized (as we recommend) so I run my SWG on a very low setting which still provides enough FC but not too much. I also open...

One or the other- entirely open or closed, mostly for esthetics.

Perhaps because of the expense of adding salt again from scratch.

Some useful tips to get you going.... https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Plaster_Installation_and_Maintenance https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Plaster_Start-Up_Guides https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Construction_Best_Practices

Hi tere James... I love those big old 30+ year old pools. So often they're bigger, deeper and have a certain style. Looking forward to this- if you'll take us along and start a thread with lots of pictures? Pretty pleaseeeeeeee. Welcome!! Maddie :flower:

Ronda- I'm so glad you thought to look us up and remembered Chuck's acct here. I'm so very sorry for your loss, and I am sure the long row y'all went thru dealing with such a miserable form of cancer. You deserve a warm summer and lots of relaxing pool time, remembering Chuck and the good times...

Just say "Mella"..."Mahshmella" in a deep Southern accent sounds fine to me :)

Ooooh!! You've come out of the shadows! So great! Welcome to TFP....we're glad to have ya. (did you rush home as a kid to watch Dark Shadows too?)

With the autocover, it's important to open it up every few days for a bit to let the sun help burn off any accumulating CCs and gasses trapped under the cover. We do this normally year round as we don't close our pool down after swim season. Maddie :flower:

Those rails look spiffy!!

Have you checked here?-->. Vinyl Liner PICTURE Pattern Roundup - PICTURES AND NAME OF LINER ONLY PLEASE

Would love to see a pic of that.... <hint! hint!> Maddie :flower:

Are you using the PoolMath app ? Very helpful! (y)

Here are the basics for the way we care for our pools:

Here's a good one- Bottom-mounted Pressure Gauge

For your pool (26k gallons, right?) it needs 166 ounces of 10% Liquid Chlorine to get from Zero to 5ppm FC. Daily, until the test kit comes. Get jiggy with the Pool Math app- it's The Bomb!!

Take a picture of your pool equipment pad, showing everything. We might see valves you're not aware of what they do.