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Had a bunch of kids here for a party on the 4th of July. After about 3 or 4 hours of kids in and out of the pool and running around the yard and concrete deck barefoot, several of the kids had at least one bleeding toe. While this has never been a problem before, my kids and their friends are...

Normally when I open the air relief valve I hear a loud blowing noise that leads to a strong spray of water after a few seconds. This year when I opened and started everything up, i heard a very faint blowing sound that led to a just a slight dripping of water from the valve. Other than that...

Offered to help my neighbor, and I'd like to come through for the guy. Just want to make sure the results I'm seeing are normal or if I'm missing something. Pool is 18,000 gal with a sand filter. SWG but we have turned that off for the SLAM. Before I got involved, the guy opened to a green...

I've been a pool owner for the past 5 years and through what I've learned on this site, I have always had perfect water. Today I opened to a cloudier than usual pool. My opening numbers were as follows: pH 8.2 FC 0.5 CC 3.5 TA 50 CYA 0 (or at least I filled the entire tube and could still...

Been using the TFP method for 3 years and have been having great results! Perfect water all the time! My calcium hardness had dropped a bit low and I wanted to give it a boost. I grabbed what I thought was my 25 lbs of calcium increaser and broadcast it over the entire pool. When I went to...

Pool has been open for about a week. All my levels are within the proper range and the water looks good. I have always had these "spots" floating around on the surface of the water. You can only see them if you look at just the right angle into the sun, which is the angle that this picture...

I have one pool return that I cannot remove the eyeball seat. The outer ring and eyeball come out no problem, but the threaded pipe that connects into the wall which holds the eyeball will not move. I tried the plastic removal tool but the plastic part that fits into the notches simply...

Hello everyone. Here is my story. Pool has been open about a week. Backwashed yesterday morning and added new DE through the skimmer. I let my Aquabot vacuum crawl around the floor of the pool for a couple hours and then pulled it out to clean the bag. The bag was full of what looked and...

Hello Everyone, Opened the pool at my new place for the first time on Saturday, and with the help of the people in these forums, I have everything balanced and the water looks great! Two questions concerning CYA: 1) My pool is at least 30 years old and the previous owner has been using...

Hello everyone. Opened my pool at my new house for the first time today. Everything went well with the open. Water's a little cloudy, but the filter is doing its job so far. Here are my numbers. FC - 5 pH - 8.2 TA - 160 CYA - 30 I know the pH and TA need to come down. There's an...

Hello Everyone. My name is Brian, and I live in central New Jersey. I've been lurking on this site for months now educating myself, and with my opening now a couple days away, I figured it would be a good time to say hello. In the middle of last summer my wife and two little boys moved into...