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Re: Rounding the Corner to a New Pool Build OMG Casey..... Prayers from our family to yours for his speedy recovery..

Here are my reading this morning. FC=3-5ppm PH=7.2 We swam a little last night, the pool water is clear and it was a sunny 92 degree day. So it appears as if the CYA has taken hold and is now doing its job preventing chlorine loss. I like that, but will continue to monitor the loss daily...

I called the materials company, told them how large an area I had, how deep I needed it to be, and they calculated I would need about 3 yards. You can look online for a calculator as well just do a google search for cubic yards calculator I believe. Hope that helps.

Re: Rounding the Corner to a New Pool Build Yep sounds like what we have. it's technical name is Houston Black Clay full of organics.. This used to be farmland 20 years ago, throw a seed on the ground.. give it a little water.. leave it alone.. and it grows.. We planted trees when we moved...

Ping, thats what I thought as well, leave the others alone and see how my Chlorine does over the next few days so I can estimate the chlorine demand. Kudos to everyone who has helped answer these questions for me this board has been a wealth of information.

$145 here for 3 yards of crusher, the rock is 1 1/2 inch they also call it road base here in texas. Actually cost less than I thought and that is delivered :)

Re: Rounding the Corner to a New Pool Build Casey, Remind me never to Tick you off :lol: What a mess, what type of soil is that? We have black clay here that turns to muck and sticks to everything when wet. However we don't get that much rain here unless a hurricane or tropical storm comes...

So Casey, how is your mud puddle coming? I don't envy you your task girl that is a lot of digging. I was crying about cutting out 5 inches of dirt... :-D

Greetings, Just wanted to share a conversation I had the other day with a pro installer. We hired a contractor to come and dig a level base for our pool a couple of weeks ago, he got it pretty level so we setup the pool till the end of the season "Sept" and filled. It is a bit out of level but...

Here are the results FC=5 PH=7.2 came up from 6.8 last night TA=90 CH=110 CYA=40 presumed, added 2lb of CYA last evening Water is crystal clear and can see the bottom very clearly.

Ok, I added about 2lbs of CYA via sock yesterday and ran the pump for about 4hrs. I also added Bleach during that time to bring it up to about 5ppm. Tested FC a bit ago and still at 5ppm. Gonna see how much I loose during the day so will test again around 6pm my time when I turn the pump back...

Thanks guys, going to get CYA right now. P.S With the amount of sun I get from 7am to 5:30pm what would be my target for CYA The pool calc says 40. But with the heavy sun load we get during June-Sept do you think it would hurt to go higher? I will not be using the pucks, only bleach in the...

Greetings, New pool and have not added CYA yet so it is at 0. Will be adding 32oz over next few days via sock method to get to 40 I understand this can take a week or more to get the levels up? Yesterday I tested for FC and it was not even registering, I added 5 cups of 8.75 bleach and tested...

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Greetings, A ran across a post a few days ago in this forum where someone had show the custom water level they had made using a couple of boards, some hose with colored water and some rulers mounted to the board to check the level around their pool foundation. If anyone can point me to this...

Just paid $3.50 for Walmart Brand 8.25% strength North of San Antonio TX

I figured the test strips were junk per information here, and that is correct, they registered no chlorine at all. Went out tonight and bought the HTC 6in1 test kit from Walmart while waiting on the one recommended on the board. Chlorine is hard to read in shades of yellow on this 6in1 kit but...

Richard, According to the pool calc if my FC is 0 and I want to get it to 3 it stated to add 33oz of bleach to reach that level. Shock value for a pool of this size using Bleach would be what? This is what I am not understanding. I added 33oz of bleach yesterday but as I said earlier it did...

Richard, Thanks for the info, I think I am going to start with the Dichlor first as this will get the Chlorine up and add some stabilizer while I wait for my test kit to come in. Then once I get proper readings on the other items I will know better where to add what. So can anyone help with...

FC=0 PH=7.8 Alk=120 These are with the test strip, just checked it a few minutes ago. I added 33oz of liquid bleach yesterday as per the pool calc for 5300gal of water but the FC never registered.

Greetings, Just got my 16x48 pool setup and full of water. Going to use the BBB method for maintaining the water. I have some questions: 1: Stuck with the stock paper filter unit provided with the pool until I get my sand filter and pump from my old AGP adapted to the new intex. The question...

Casey, Thats good information, we hired a guy yesterday to level the ground, however now that we have the pool set in the spot he dug and filling with water it is still not level :hammer: I am gonna call this guy back and let him know about it, but we are going with filling the pool for the 3...

MirellaJoe, What size crushed stone did you use, this is precisely what I want to use under our pool for next year. The pool and setup look fantastic :cheers:

That is original I will grant you. :mrgreen:

Thanks to all for the input and help. Now then, back to my OCD, I had a horrible thought. This clay that I am on when wet turns into muck, and when you consider the fact that water will be splashed over the pool sides, rain, etc etc I am now concerned about the legs sinking into this muck when...

Greetings, Just finished getting the ground excavated for our 16x48 intex Ultra Frame pool. We have black clay here and lots of rocks in our soil. When the soil is dry it is hard like concrete, however when it rains "not that often in South Texas these days" the soil can turn into gumbo. I...