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Good Morning: Talked with our supplier today, and he can get us only 4 bottles of sodium hypochlorite this month. We have a budget of $150 per month for that pool. We have one pool at the complex at 100 ppm CYA. The other pool is at 30 CYA and chlorinated with TriChlor pucks, so it is not a...

I work for an apartment complex as a maintenance tech. We have Two pools in SC, and the Property manager okayed opening one pool for limited use, so I skimmed it, backwashed the filter and vacuumed to waste even though it is nasty water. At any rate there is some algae in that the water is...

Good Day, A friend of mine just replaced his Vinyl liner, and we filled it with water. It holds a mere 7,000 gallons. Right now the pH is at 6.8, Chlorine 1, Combined Chlorine 0, Alkalinity 50, CYA 0, and Calcium 110. Being this is basically a plastic pool, the calcium does not matter...

Friend of mine is running an apartment pool, which is a sparkling oasis... That said he knows he needs to drain some water because the CYA is high (slightly over 100). It is 70000 gallons and chlorinated with Trichlor pucks on two feeders. Two sand filters run 24/7. It gets Backwashed once...

First, I want to Thank the TFP community for educating me with Pool School. I learned more reading hours of posts and reading the Pool School articles than I have EVER learned in all my years of pool care put together. I always thought before coming here: Chlorine should be 3 ppm (ideal)...

I have pool trouble. Anyway, we have a small in ground cement pool that came with the home, but it is in poor shape... well at least the water is poor. The actual pool itself is in great condition. My location is Columbia, SC The pool holds 14,000 gallons and it is a little bit green. Well...