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I’ve had my cover for 3 years now. As a new pool install Year 1: Undermount track pulled off of the coping, causing it to get stuck. Took 2 months before they came out to repair and made the pool unusable. Year 2: Tracked pulled again, this time on the opposite side. Took them 3 weeks to come...

Today I was able to locate through a lot of 10 new flat plate collectors from a bankruptcy auction. They're not as efficient (~20k btu/day each) but they were $125/panel which is absurdly cheap for a glazed parabolic flat plate collector. At that price I had to jump on it. I also picked up a...

Right now I'm dumping any surplus into space heating via a buffer tank and water coil in the air handler, but it isn't much left. That's actually what got me started thinking about heating the pool. I have a leftover taco controller, pumps, and zone valves from an old removed boiler. My...

I've got 10kW of grid tied solar electric powering the house. Roughly 30,000 BTUs of solar thermal vacuum tube collectors pre-heating my domestic hot water. I'm now looking to add heat to my pool and of course looking to do it via solar but came to a dead stop in my assumptions. I was...

Yea nobody tells you that about those plugs. Mine is still in there somewhere....

I’ve read a bunch of posts, and watched a bunch of videos, but now I’m stuck. Heres what I’ve done so far: 1. End of season, SLAMed the pool. 2. After letting it return to balance, I added algaecide. 3. Drained pool below skimmer and return lines - used main drain to allow a deep drain. 4...

The pH went up naturally. Its sitting at 7.2 steady now for two days now. The rest of the reading seems steady too, with the exception of FC. It’s been climbing the last two days and I’m now at 11 FC. I added LC yesterday, but didn’t today when I realized it was still climbing. The pool looks...

Do I eventually put it back in? Or is it good to leave it out forever?

I actually just brought it down. It was sitting at 8.2 just yesterday. Calculator called for 2 gallons of muriatic to get to a 7.2. I added a gallon last night, and just another one about an hour before I tested the water. The one last night was a 15.7%-10 Baume, the one today; I didn't...

I opened both ports. This one was empty: The one next to it with a plug looks like a cage/filter. FC seems to be fine, but right now I have a solar cover over it. Temp went up by 3 degrees today, sitting at a toasty 58 degrees. I overshot and am sitting at the following: FC=7 CC=0 (is...

I don’t have the slightest clue..how would I check that? There’s a “start up cartridge” in a box in my garage, I saw that yesterday.

I guess I shouldn't have cheaped out. My LaMotte works similar to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgp_0uMS4rE The problem is my liquid doesn't turn murky and I can always see a black dot. I'll have to pick up a secondary kit to test my CYA. Thank you, turns out I was wrong on a...

I'm registering 55 water temp right now. I took it inside, but I didn't purposely let it warm up. It sat on the counter until I got to the test. I am wary as well, I did the test 3 times. Twice using full, and once diluted. I'm using a LaMotte 7022, and I have to say I really dislike the...

The hose is off the main plumbing. The softener is right after the pressure tank so it looks like the whole house goes through it. Is there a softener type you recommend instead of the type I have? CSI is 0.65, already calculated it. The calculator called for two gallons of muriatic, but I only...

I feel like a massive dunce. To go from a test strip to a kit is a big jump. And some of these are a drop at a time and it’s a lot of drops! Pool: pH= 8-8.2 FC=0 TC=0 TA= 110 Ch= 380 CYA= N/A - I can’t get a reading out of this. Kitchen Tap: Ch=0 Hose: Ch=0 pH=7.2-7.4 ta= 260

Test strip on house water. FC=0 PH=7 TA=180 Hardness=800 CYA=30-50 Here’s the funny part. 2nd strip FC=0 PH=6.8 TA=180 Hardness = 100, huge difference CYA = 30-50 Water softener reads .5GPM/1.5lb not sure if that helps.

Some yes, but not all. It leaves enough for us to use a RO for drinking. I’m not sure if it’s meter based or Regen capacity, but I do know that when we had the water heater replaced (60 gallon) it took about 1-2 weeks before the water felt soft again. It was two years ago, but I t was opened...

My natural water has iron in it. I have a house filter and softener system. Just dumped some 10% LC in. No fire hydrants, and the local FD doesn’t fill around me. When the pool was built, we had to truck it in. I think it cost about $3,000 to fill the pool, and that was the cheapest of the...

I was thinking the same thing, then I looked at the cost thread. Sam’s Club has 6% bleach for $9.82/3 pack. Home Depot has 10% liquid chlorine for $8.95/3 pack when you buy 4. ($9.95/3 pack otherwise) It seems like a no brained to go with the liquid chlorine because of that.

Ok waiting for the test kit. I took readings with the strips again and either it’s settling from the circulation or the strips are just that off (or both) FC = 0 Ph = 6.8 TA = 80 TH = 400 CYA = 100 Nothing added, just brushing, circulating and vacuuming. I also turned off my solar recirc so...