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My very old existing concrete and stainless steel wall, pool days have come to an end. Im looking for a contractor to price me new rebar and shotcrete style renovation or demo everything and a fiberglass shell. Its a 34'x19 rectangle. Can anyone recommend someone? Thanks!

old pool but taken care of over the years besides needing a paint job the last couple. Opened up fine this year with typical paint spots missing. Had a rough couple weeks with a circulation issue and let the pool go cloudy/green until part came in and I SLAM to get back to normal like I have...

Very old pool I guess they made them like this at one point. See zoomed out photo if your confused on what I mean See second photo for a clean part of the wall then see third photo of it getting rusty. I’ve had the pool for 4 years never see it get that bad looking. Really wanted to try CLR and...

Anyone with a big inground pool over 30k gallons with no heater? I think I average around 75 degrees with no heater and I’m ready to make the investment to bump it up to 80-82

Is slamming ever part of maintenance, example after a heavy rain or large group Swim Or should you just bring it to Shock level once?

Using all liquid chemicals in my pool can I use them in my hot tub? Old school tiger river spa Example liquid shock, muriatic acid

TA is at a 150 Ph on the k-1000 is 8.2 or higher??? Punch it into pool math app without TA and it wants me to add 9.8 oz of muriatic but punch in the TA with the Ph and it wants me to add 115 oz. That large difference made me come to the forum....thoughts? Side note I got done slamming...

36k gallon concrete pool Tf-100 kit Cya closer to 30 then it is 40 Refreshing my memory on slam technique had a rough opening, am I following the tfp site and using 12 or 16 as slam, the chart has a Star next To 20cya as if that’s where I want to be when the app says 30-60cya is ideal and...

Was looking for a new header for a Laars LX400N found one for about $800 and almost fell over. Can anyone help? By the way anyone know how hold this model is?

I heard shipping has been a little crazy lately has anyone ordered a tf-100 in the past week? How long did it take if you received

Started my opening today as soon as I got it primed bam water leaking out these cracks. How did this happen?

Hello everyone, pool season has been great thanks to tfp and tf-100. I slam for my opening and keep steady all summer. Unfortunately I made a bone head move and started my weekly backwash on my sand filter and instead of letting it run for 3 minutes, I walked away for the entire night. I woke up...

First off I would have never enjoyed or figured out my pool if it wasn’t for this website! Thank you all so much.I bought a house with a really terrible setup for a pool and I enjoyed three seasons of clear swimming because of this site. That being said I plan on moving and this house simply...

This is technically my first opening. My first pool season was with fresh water. So far I opened the pool and got eveythring running but now im vaccuming to waste and its I cant last more then 5 minutes until the pump basket is clogged with debris. Then when i clean the basket its another 10...

My pool was filled with fresh water bust as I add well water each week for upkeep should I be adding any kind of metal free or do I just stick to keeping my FC at target and typical maintiance

I just vacuumed a decent amount of algae on filter and I think I regret it. Psi is at about a 3. Did I just make a big mistake.

So in the hardy reference the recommended levels doesn't make sense to me I have a concrete pool with paint is that plaster? If it is what with the low TA recommended the tf 100 kit says 100-120. This pool is not an SWG. Anyways here my most recent test let me know what you think. FC 2.5 CC-0...

Hello, I have a 31,000 gallon in ground pool 12ft deep and 80 percent of the pool is over 6 ft (not the greatest design). Anyways there's two returns in the shallow end and one skimmer in the shallow end, one of the returns is actually on the pool floor (35 year old pool). So the circulation is...

Hi! Can anyone tell me if my pool 30 plus years old had aluminum side walls or fiberglass or something else? I put a magnet to it and it does not stick it possible it is stainless steel? Please see photo [YOUTUBE]

Hello everyone was looking for step by step instructions with list of materials to paint my concrete bottom galvanized metal liner pool. Need instructions from draining to filling. Note: i'm on a well and right now my quote is $350 per load and a load is 6,180 gallons for water delivery. I need...

Hello everyone coming up on my first pool opening season. Inground concrete bottom pool with odd metal siding with concrete behind that. Roughly 25 years old. I'm draining the pool because I need to paint it and make it look nice. I know painting isn't the best solution but it's a budget issue...

Hello everyone, I'm coming up on my first pool opening season on about a 30 year old pool. Im draining the pool using a large water pump because I need to paint and try my best to make the pool look nice. The main drain is closed off because of a leak. I honestly have no idea if there is a...

Hello everyone, I recently bought a house with an in ground pool its about 30 years old says the neighbor. The bottom of the pool is concrete. Now here's the odd part all four sides of the pool (rectangle pool)are a galvanized corrugated steel. I have never scene that and cant find anything...