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I always use a solar blanket as my pool does not have a heater. As it is only a 24' x 12' x 5' pool it heats up fairly quickly once the weather gets warm. Slammed the pool on opening, back in late May & got the water completely clear after a couple of weeks. Since then I have kept the solar...

I have been waiting for my test kit refills to arrive from the US (I used up the last drop of the 0013 as well as the R-0600 & R-0014 at the end of last year). My CYA is not registering at all. It had been low (20 -30) for the last couple of seasons after several years of only using liquid...

Same old question yet again! :confused: I've always ordered my TF100 refills here, shipped to my address in Buffalo & picked up there. This year, this may be a problem. I won't need them until sometime mid-May, but the way things are going there's no guarantee that it will be possible to cross...

I have a 1 HP Hayward pump. This year I replaced the GFI power receptacle that the pump plugs into. I don't if it is in any way related to this, but this summer the pump is much louder than I remember. Any opinions on what might be causing this? The pump seems to work OK, just noisy.

Opened the (very green) vinyl pool just under two weeks ago. I'm just about crystal clear now. My TA levels were low around 40, so I added Trol that I had left over from the pool store & topped up with baking soda. However, every store in the neighbourhood is now out of baking soda! Last...

Just opened the pool yesterday. Very green. Dumped in about 12 litres of liquid chlorine (40,000 litre vinyl pool). Took my first readings this morning (pool is now opaque blue): FC 27 pH 7.8 ( a bit lower) CYA 30 CC 3 TC 30 TA 40 CH ... don't know. Did the test & although...

Weather went from 50 F to 80 F in two days ... as usual :(. Opened up the pool & went to turn on the Hayward pump ... the pump won't turn over. Had the same problem last spring but was able to turn the impeller by accessing through the back panel. This year it seems to be seized so tight that I...

Weather has been atrocious here ... but opened the pool about 4 days ago. Put in about a gallon & a half of liquid chlorine & the murk has cleared up with the water more or less clear. Did not have my PH & FC solutions until today (ran out at the end of last season). Tested the FC which had...

Opened my pool late this year due to cold spring. Quite green on opening. 10 days of slamming cleaned it up. I've had completely clear water for the last month. However, until the recent heat wave the water has been at, or below 24C (I don't heat it) & I kept the solar blanket on except when...

So ... simply maintaining the FC at SLAM levels should eventually clarify the water? I am 2 days into converting the pool water from a greenish swamp. The pool water is now blue but cloudy - I can just about see the drain. Is the cloudiness still indicative of the presence of living algae...

Just starting up my pool. My reading for the TA appears to be low at 40. The PH level is high - around 8.2 (which seems to be normal for my water). FC at zero. CYA at 30. Should I raise the TA before adjusting the PH & slamming?

Just started up my pool. Put in the drain plug at the bottom of the sand filter & it was leaking a bit ... so I over tightened it & cracked the plastic. Got a replacement at the LPS & put it on ... it's still leaking. I don't want to over tighten it again, especially since the thread on the...

I just opened my replacement chemicals box for the TF-100 kit. I seem to be missing the R-7065 bottle. Is it OK to use the R-7065 that I have left over from the last kit (purchased in 2016)? It's obviously a fairly important part of the testing process (I've just re-opened my pool). Can I get...

I have been following the TFP method for the last couple of years with success, but have been using a local pool professional to open & close the pool. It's small (24'x 12'/40,000 liters) inground chlorine pool with vinyl liner. I figure I should probably learn to open (& close) it myself, as...

I am about to go on an extended 3 weeks trip during which I will have somebody else keeping an eye on the (40,000 ltr) pool. I believe I have got my CYA levels down to around 25 (will double check tomorrow). I am hoping this will allow me to add chlorine/stabilizer pucks to the skimmer to...

Politely requested not to add my post to another thread ... so here's a new thread. I've owned & maintained a 12' x 24' x 5' inground vinyl pool (about 40,000 kiters) for 7 years. In southern Ontario - so a short 3 month season. Varying degrees of success in keeping the pool trouble free over...

7 years in, owning a small (12' x 24' x 5') vinyl pool. There've been some good periods ... & some bad periods, but overall I haven't really had a clue what I've been doing. I've used the basic test strips & periodic trips to the (not so) local pool store for water testing. I have NEVER used...