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We have had our pool at SLAM levels for four days and it’s not clearing up. Someone said we might have phosphates in there and that could be the reason... thoughts on next steps? On phosphates?

no pool store will give me a straight answer - trying to get our pool clear with DE filter and backwashing a TON. how much DE to replace each time?

It's been a few weeks now....third attempt at a SLAM and pool won't hold a shock (pool math showed 7 bottles of bleach at the time) so we can (S)LAM. We put in bleach about 9p, and in the morning it had FC of 1.0. We are terribly frustrated and are seriously thinking of closing the pool and just...

Hello all! First, let me preface this with 'we have misplaced our testing kit', we know we need it and will replace as quickly as we can, ... though, we did open it and would like to at least move in the right direction before we can get a new one. So, we had the guy who opened our pool put...

We just installed this on our very dirty pool and backwashed once (within 24 hours) because pressure told us to. We refilled the skimmer with 6lb DE and it looks like we'll need to backwash again today. Are we doing this right? We add DE everytime we backwash, right? Pool guy wasn't very...

Hello all - we did our initial SLAM and seem to be stuck at blue and cloudy. Here are the numbers: CYA - 50 pH - 7.5-7.6 FC - had it up to 22 for a day or two and now it's around 12-14 TA - 80 Calcium Hardness - 225 We added bleach per the calculator for a couple of days and seemed to have...

We are in the country so no gas and electric would be too $$ to bring out to the pool. So we are going with propane. We have a 33K gallon pool and have been advised that a 400,000 BTU is what we need. We are looking at the Hayward H400FDP and have someone who will install it for $250 (plus the...

Hello - we are new pool owners and have been struggling with keeping the water clear...it seems to get out of balance and turns green really quickly. We have been juggling the pool store and blogs and just can't figure it out. As an example, we have started using a test kit - and yesterday...