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    Calcium Spots or Black Alage

    I have been dealing with these hard white/grayish spots on the bottom and walls of my concrete pool. I am in the middle of a SLAM/MUSTARD algae shock as we speak. The reason for this is that I did also have some issues with algae. I recently connected new Intellichlor salt water system and...
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    Staining

    I have a gunite pool that I have been battling stains with for the past couple years. The stains are like a yellowish to orange color. I have had success in the past using a product called Stop Stains, but it requires so much to treat the pool that it is nearly $100 each time. My PH typically...
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    Salt Cell issues

    I have an intellichlor salt cell. All last summer I dealt with it not producing any or enough chlorine. So I used mostly liquid chlorine all last summer. This season we have acid washed it, although no scale was visible on the blades and it did not bubble up. I was told a few weeks ago at...
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    Filling with Well Water

    I have had issues with staining in the past in my plaster pool. My question is since I am on well water, every time I need to add fill water to the pool, would you also recommend at the same time I always add a metal sequestering agent?
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    Help Maintaining Chlorine

    I recently (about 3-4 weeks ago) did a stain treatment on my salt water pool (details on pool size in signature line). I used a product called "Stop Stains" by Suncoast. Before adding this product I dropped my chlorine to almost zero and brought the pH down to 7.0. This product says is...
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    Possbile Scale

    So I neglected my pool this winter and now I am seeing hard white stains mostly on the bottom of the pool They are raised as when I run a pool net over them, it is rough and you can feel it get stuck on some of the larger ones. I did add 3 lbs of ascorbic acid as well as 10 lbs of Suncoast...