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As mentioned above. Let your psi pressure dictate to you when to clean the cartridge filter, because you want it a little dirty to filter out finer suspended particles. There is a balance of letting your filter get dirty enough to filtrate better, and letting it get too clogged and raising...

Here are my numbers today: PH 7.8 FC 45 CC 3 TC 48 CYA 70 Alkalinity 110 Help? PH is on the high end of the scale of 7.2 to 7.8 TA is a tad high of the scale at 110 but not bad normal range of 60-120 ppm. Your CYA for a non salt water generated pool you want the range to be between 30-50...

The duda diesel bag is something experimental that someone on here suggested to me 3 years ago as a secondary means of filtration. The bag should run about $5 to $9. They are really meant for filtering oil in commercial applications but suit water just fine. They come with a metal or plastic...

Hi...:D Madyogi, FunandSun, and SplashPad. Did I hear my name mentioned?... Lol... Welcome Ladyxtine. Ladyxtine. I'm going to recommend that you first obtain the TFT test kit, fill the pool and top off with fresh water, then run your tests and establish your CYA level, reference it to the...

I rinse my duda diesel 5 micron bag after every use in a 24 hr pump run whether my water is crystal clear or not. Sometimes I get pollen on the water surface that my skimmer sock and duda diesel bag collects. I rinse my bag either by pressure washing it or I rinse it with the hose in my kitchen...

Thanks Texas Splash. I guess what I am asking the answer to, is what happens when the flocculant embeds in a cartridge filter pleats? How does it make the fibers and filtration less effective? What would be the scenario and result if it did? I know it clogs DE and sand. When I vac to waste it...

Richard320. "But one caveat: If you had CYA last year but now you don't, you could have a major problem and there is an intermediate step that should be taken before the SLAM. Post back if that's the case." Other than water dilution from spring rain and winter snowfall. Can you kindly elaborate...

I have a question Texas Splash about flocculant used. I haven't used the stuff to clear a pool in 2 years as I've implemented other strategies to filter out fine debris to clear a pool. I understand the adverse affects flocculant has on Sand and DE filters, but how does is specifically and...

That's a beautiful thing and picture. I know flocculant is not reccomended around here for compromising cartridge and sand filters, but sometimes we have to meet our deadlines, and go off TFP script.

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Alllrrriigghtty!!!! You got you're pool (and your sanity) back!!! Hmm??? Maybe ill put that in my signature?.. Sanitizer = Sanity...lol

Given the factor that you have already added the flocculant which isn't that recommended here at TFP, yeah I know flocculant is an easy quick fix to settle it to floor and vac to waste as we all have done it at one time or another. The reason it is not recommended being, it quolagulates your...

I'm not only glad you guys got to actually enjoy the pool this weekend but more importantly the kids got to enjoy it as well, and were actually able to take control of it yourselves. I love following everyone's threads on here for the quests to make things right, and the ability to help one...

Great news Madyogi. In doing my darndest over at my wife's friends to train and convert her TFP methods. Her pool service company wrote a really belligerent note on their invoice. They cleared her green pool, 2 dead animals, and complained about the trees in a really nasty manner. Added too much...

Keep kicking its ash...:p

For a CYA of 40 you want to SLAM at FC 16. Pass the OCLT, and get CC below 0.5 If you have any hair nets or skimmer socks, stick them in your skimmer basket, it'll help filtrate out the fine stuff without loading up your filter. Here's another tip if you have some time. You want to run your...

If you were going with the pool store I would have easily put you at $1200.00 between 50 lbs of trichlor pucks, flocculant, pool rx magic potions, stabilizers, PH + and - Algecide, sand, and having someone unclog the MD run the plumbing unions, etc. My 1st and 2nd year. I went that route and...

Wow those numbers are perfect!!! You get a clean bill of health from the Pool Doctor

Another recommendation is to update your signature a little further and elaborate on the equipment that you have so we can assist you further. Take a look at your pool pump get the horsepower amount the make and model. Sanitizing the water is going to be your most important and first step in...

No really... Chain your husband to the wall inside your house!!! Use the K-2006 test kit, get us some fresh current real numbers on your water chemistry and we will advise from there. If you are having difficulty using the test kit, I will explain further questioning if necessary. FC Free...

Ok the principles of SLAMing a pool is taking the chlorine levels higher than maintenance levels to sanitize. Shock is not a product and it is not technically the packets of granules that you throw in your pool which is calcium hypochlorite which raises your calcium hardness CH and also raises...

Man this has to be frustrating. All these days of SLAM and you would think the water color would have at least changed color by now? I'm hoping the new sand will start doing its job....If you are at the aqua point, cloudy blue should be next.

Yeah I have that everyday too. Its most likely pollen, luckily it sits on the water surface and the skimmer takes care of it all in an hour or two.

It could possibly be pollen too settling to the bottom of the floor. Is it green or brown? Keep up the SLAM, whatever is on your floor you can either vac it to waise and waste a little bit of water, or try putting a hairnet or skimmer sock over your skimmer basket and might be able to absorb...

Keep up the SLAM UNTIL OCLT IS PASSED with three points of criteria. Depending on how good your filtration system is will only tell you how long it takes to clear it. The chlorine kill the algae and turns it brown or white, once it's dead. It turns the water from green to blue, but your...

Re: My SLAM w/ Duda Bags & Fiber Clear Trying to follow along in this thread looks like you got multiple issues. Vacuum pressure leaks air leaks pump cavitation crappy valves, those valves typically freeze up on me and the handles break off the ball joints every 3 years. I always keep an...

Yes!!!! This is what I have been looking for for three years!!! I didn't even realize Duda Diesel made this felt material in sections, other than their filtration bags. I am totally wrapping my cartridge filter with this!!!

Has the sand been changed or deep cleaned as of yet? Any improvements on water clarity in the last 48 hrs?

I've never had that issue with the bags turning up. Maybe perhaps if you prime the bag with water through the elbow, just before you screw it in the return housing? You could use a few polished river rocks in the bag if my first suggestion doesn't work? Hmm?.. Now you have me thinking? What...