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I have had a interesting day yesterday. I read all 25 pages with interest and maybe even suspicion. Boric acid sounded dangerous at first until I realized. where did I hear of it before? oh ya I believe everybody on this forum has had it put into their eyes when they were born. yes it is given...

new to my pool last year on a house just bought. I had a fine cloud of silt blow out of my filter every morning when the pump turned on with my timer. after weeks of vacuuming the bottom and still getting the silt blow out. I let accumulate for a week. then I just set the valve control to waste...

did you know a SWG salt water chlorine generator emits hydrogen bubbles? to find out if it is the SWG turn it off. but I also wanted to say with a manual diverter valve (before the pump intake) you have it may cause too much suction with the 2HP motor and suck air in at the strainer cover (my...

yesterday, 48 degrees but today it is up to 56 and with some warmer days yet to come should go up more. I for one would like to thank TFP! last year had a nasty black swamp and it cost me near $500 in chemicals and 2 1/2 months to clear. note just bought the house prior year and was a newby. so...

that is what my brother in law quoted when he visited my pool. he had never experienced a pool like that before. glad you and you pal got it. patience paid off.

start with PH. unless it is balanced correctly now. but get the filter/and skimmer installed and going. you will need it to circulate your added chemicals. read BBB set up yet> easiest way. use bleach until the SWG is up and ready. get some initial readings and use the pool calculator just do...

sounds like a good test.

ok, the area where you have fro, pool or spa. is it a switch to choose either? if it is can you filter both at the same time. this area is on the intake side of things and if you shut one down it may be what is taking in air. it is hard to tell from the pic. but on mine if the valve handle goes...

I think now some idea of your filter type. pictures etc. if you have a large filter type, does you filter use a manual switch to set backwash and so on? to get air out of that type. you might check out youtube to view some filter control videos. shut down pump first before changing valve...

Nashville TV last week quoted 32" rain since Jan 1st. 50 miles South I was lucky and only got about 10......

Re: Can I get by with ONLY using Bleach, Borax, and Baking S if you have already used dichlor you put in CYA. it should not really go away. use bleach from then on. borax use it to balance PH. baking soda to get Total ALK up to level. as for CYA what it does is store up FC and slowly...

do you have one or two skimmers? I had a manual switch near my pump inlet and if one side was closed off it leaked air in. there is also a hose fitting on that too in the middle. I found the gasket to that hose fitting was missing and someone tried to use silicon to seal it. (house and pool...

hi, not being far from your situation/location. I had 2"+ and since daily I just use test strips noticed small little bubbles on my side wall/bottom even with my FC near 7, SWG usually has it nearer 10 FC. I added bleach and proceeded to brush so I might miss the bloom. it was just my guess...

you must brush the whole pool. it may be eating up algae elsewhere, then vacuum.

your near nashville, me too. with the fact you got 32" rain this year so far and a few inches the last two days alone. have him run the vaccume to waste position and not through the filter every time it rains. he did stop using tablets right? 1; I just would add the bleach every day and brush...

does your filter have the ability to pump to waste? (it bypasses filter) my sand filter has that, just let pool sit over night adding extra water the day before you do it. if you do not, once the majority of dirt has settled on the bottom, remove the return line to your yard and drain it there...

I was doing that for a bit until I found enough bleach to give a large shock. fresh bleach in pool and brushing sides one day and bottom the next, third day vaccume. I had so much CYA (310) I believe much of it went into killing off algae and mixing with the CYA. but I had a SWG that was...

Re: Big Insurance increase because of our pool with diving b I have seen very many accidents around diving boards. and the people that use them. most were learning to use a board and making a small balance error. I have even caught my back doing a dive,small scrape. I had been training in the...

don't need thread, just wanted to let someone else know he/she is not alone with their problem.

just a note to; the pool home I just bought even though out of the area. they used a 3" thick 3'X3' concrete pad for my sand filter area. the whole pad was installed on some of the fill created when the pool was built. as you might guess the large sand filter as big as they are. it olds 300+...

it took about 96 gallons or pounds of it (shock) because the previous owner of my pool had used dichlor that had CYA up to 310 ppm. but once my salt water chlorinator was working it maintained a .5 ppm I kept adding bleach until I reached a level well over 10ppm FC and it held there...

I'll admit to passing on a lot of homes due to them being salt pools. did not like the thought. but did not know much then. ocean water 35,000 PPM pool 1/10 as much 3500 ppm... check the SWG section for issues with gunite if any. some may be experiencing corrosion or issues with PH balance...

she pays to swim there about 4 times or more a week.

I like kids but...last year a friend who swims in public/health club pool ended up in hospital that way. pool owner paid her bill. I told her I just do not like seeing kids with swim diapers on. she remembers a few days earlier of a kid wearing one in it.

if you look many $500 cells are warranted for 1 or maybe 2 years. the same sort of cell but priced at $1100 or more have 5 or 7 year warranty. I was able to find a replacement board for a visibly fried one, because it was not secured to the HEAT SINK...15 year old SWG and it works again. cost...

I have seen a puck floatee type that was solar charged, during my searches. sorry but it was not wireless/like wifi. it had pre-programmed changing LED lights that were wire self contained. so they are out there? amazon,ebay or google I just do not recall. and I can not tell you how bright they...

have you made up your mind as to what kind of pool you want? gunite, vinyl or tile. and above ground or in ground then as to what kind of filtering system or bio-active system. you might study that on this forum. I lived near Cambrian ad just moved to Tn in Dec. the pool home I bought had a...

I had a SWCG that was out of repair, now fixed. once it was fixed and a few weeks later after adding a bottle of bleach daily until it finally balanced out. now FC of 8, TC is now .5.

Re: Big Insurance increase because of our pool with diving b good to see a few responses. the pool home I bought had the diving board removed due to insurance 'prices. must have had same as thread starter, $800 increase. this is something I am going to have to look into....

gages are about $7.95, if there is a place to install it. but need not worry. you might only backflush when output gets slow and skimmers barely work, for now as for changing numbers in chlorine and CYA. sometimes I think it is the CYA absorbing the FC until it reaches a saturation point. I had...