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I've got a pool and am taking ownership of it, rather than having a Pool Guy do it. Yay! I have a pool shed full of plumbing and equipment, and only a vague grasp of what it is and what to do with it. Any information you can add or processes you can share on how things should be done would be...

I got home from my trip, so I, my TF-100 test kit, and my pool were all in the same place. I went out to test the water, and found a light dusting of green on the stairs and the shallow end. I brushed the pool and tested the water. FC 4 CC 3 PH 7.5 TA 170 CH 550 CYA 50 The color-matching...

Hello, everyone. I've got a pool, and all the mechanicals are in good working order. Yay! The pump and booster pump are both from the mid-1990s. They run at 3,300 watts each. Given the time we run them and the highish electric costs here, that's about $275 a month, just for the pumps. It's...

Hi there! I'm a software engineer in Silicon Valley, and share a house in San Jose with a couple of good friends. In January, we bought a house with a pool. At the time, we decided not to learn the pool maintenance ourselves, and hired a pool guy. The last thing we needed was to find the...