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Im guilty of not getting refills when I should. My longest stint was 3 years. The only reagents that went bad on me were the colored reagents for TA and for CH. Taylor says their reagents are good for 2 yrs from date of manufacture.

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Hi, The floaters with tabs aren't doing you any good right now. I would suggest to remove them until the pool is cleaned up. Polyquat won't do you much good either. Its good and retarding algae growth in cold water, but it doesn't kill it very will after its gotten started growing.

Amen to that!

I tested my pool water today. Added CH, then tested again a few hours later. I also emptied the skimmer, and Wu-Tang the robot is running. The water is crystal clear and looks great. FC 6 CC 0 pH 7.8 TA 80 CH 180 CYA 50 Salt 3740 Temp 64F CSI -0.41 I'm gonna put in a new LED Light Bulb...

Hi Nells, Welcome to TFP!

Here's a tip for you. Use google earth and find your house. Use the dimension tool to measure your house and property in the backyard. Then use a design or sketch app or graph paper and draw the back of your house and backyard, and make a bunch of copies if it's on paper. Include any big...

Matt makes a very valid point. Plaster that is less than 1 year old need special attention.

EDIT - See Joyful Nose Question. If our plaster is less than a year old, then the normal TFP rules do not necessarily apply. It wont hurt to do that. If it were me, that's what I would do. Just as a thought for you regarding your overall pool chemistry... lowering the TA will make your CSI...

Don't rule the SWG out for being at least partly responsible for pH rise. Running your SWG at 10-20% might make the pH rise, it really depends on the RUN TIME. How SWGs work.... The SWG will produce chlorine at full power for 10-20% of the time it's running. For example, In my case I run my...

Ha, Yeah. With emails and texts being what seems to be the preferred means of communicating these days, many folks get downright anxious about actually talking on the phone. I'll come clean and confess I'm guilty of it a lot of the time.

I ended up getting some from a local concrete company. When I called them on the phone yesterday, the man told me they don't sell concrete supplies, they pour concrete. I asked the man, Henry was his name, if he had a local supplier he could hook me up with , and told him what I wanted it for...

Welp, Boys and Girls, let me tell ya... I am TICKED OFF ! And the people at HD know it! I went to HD to buy some calcium chloride, they didn't have any in stock at all, and the HD guy hooked me up with 50 lbs of calcium chloride from their catalog. He ordered it and had it delivered to my...

Howdy! Always great to see another TFPer participating.

No worries. Building a pool can be a bit nerve racking. Your pool is the same dimensions as mine. So, if I understand correctly. 1) you have a couple of bubblers on a tanning ledge, and they have valves 2) There are 2 returns in the main part of the pool. No Valves. If my understanding is...

LOL, I love it! My robot is named Wu-Tang. Hey, since you are a rookie using Muriatic Acid, let me share something with you. If you know this already, then just ignore me...... If you spill muriatic acid, it stays active for a long time. It can eat up your concrete, kill the dirt your...

If you have a valve on each return line, or sets of 2 returns, then there's no such thing as too many, within reason of course. Valves give you a lot of flexibility to play with the water. You can close them off as needed to assist with the water circulation pattern, or chemical mixing, or...

As a follow up to my previous post, I'll just say my Nautilus CC Plus is my 2nd Robot. My first robot was also a Nautilus and lasted for almost 10 years, so I was more than happy with it's lifespan. Due to the exposure of water chemicals and UV, the plastic parts started breaking on a regular...

Add Salt. 1900 is wayyyy too low. Bump it up to 3500ppm. I have to add salt every spring. Usually about 200 lbs or so. Usually around August, I have to add another 80 lbs due to dilution from the rainfall and water getting splashed out.

Yeah, I feel the same.

For an intex pool, your options are. 1. Concrete Pad very $$$ and not really a good option. 2) Bare dirt - hard to level and make smooth. 3) Sand $, easy to level and smooth out. Paver sand is very gritty, and the downside of it is I believe over time, it may rub tiny holes in the bottom of...

Hi Diesel The Dolphin Nautilus is an excellent one. It has scrubbers, so it doesnt just suck up dirt, but scrubs the surface too. It does climb the walls and haphazardly cleans the waterline. I have the Nautilus CC Plus and I love it. If you are tired of vacuuming, or are lazy like me, then a...

Hi, Both Merlin and GLI are reputable companies. I googled each and I can't make a determination if they are owned by the same parent company, or if the liners are manufactured in the same fabrication facility. Anyways, there's that. If you haven't compared the thickness of each liner to each...

CYA usually doesn't show up on the test until 2 or 3 days later. I can't tell you why this is, but it's true. I suggest to use the original pool math to verify how much CYA will increase when you add the chemicals you are using. At the bottom, is a category named "Effects of Adding Chemicals"...

Im glad you got the problem found and fixed. Yeah, sometimes things happen and we start to freak out. I'm guilty as charged of trying to make mountains out of mole hills.