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    Advice for renting and land lord won’t balance chemicals?

    I’m now renting a home in Florida with a pool. The lease says pool care included. What he’s done is lock all the controls and loaded the pool with chlorine. The chlorine level is over 30. I keep asking that he please either balance the chemicals or let me do it, he insists that the pool is good...
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    I can't keep cya up!

    i was trying to maintain cya at 50. this is almost impossible it seems. I have to slam a lot too. and slamming is expensive. $45 just in chlorine. so i get three weeks of swimming with good numbers and easy adjustments. and then i have cloudy water so i slam, and that takes two weeks. and...
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    Pool foaming like a bubble bath! HELP!

    cya under 30 fc 2 cc over 20 ta 100 above ground pool 10,000 gallons i'm trying to help my dad. everytime he ads liquid bleach, unscented and not splashless, the pool foams like a kids bubble bath. he can not get cc up and is dumping gallons of bleach in the pool. has been adding bleach 3x...
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    Help PH and TA won't go down

    ok, my well water is testing at 240 alkalinity and 7.4 ish for ph I just tested my well water last night... in trying to figure this problem out. my pool water is testing 140 for alkalinity and my ph is just under 8.0 i am having a difficult time here. i add water to my pool about every two...
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    turned green after slam

    I was able to maintain a clear pool all winter two days of swimming the pool got cloudy. checked my chemicals and ph was a little high. so i slammed the pool at 10 ppm, it rained hard that day... after the rain, raised the chlorine to 10 again. lowered my ph and my pool had a yellow layer at...
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    rising Alkalinity help!

    ok my current read out cya less than 25 TA 130 Ph 7.5 FC 5.6 this morning cya less than 25 TA 120 Ph 7.4 FC 0.2 all i added was sodium hypochlorite and pointed jets up for some hopeful aeration. so why is alkalinity climbing over just 5 or 6 hours? the other day i had alkalinity down to...
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    Help with return flow direction

    here is my pool with what seems to me as weird return jet placement... the shallow end has a seat the entire width of that end... I'm really confused about flow direction for one. I read it depends on where you are located, well if it matters i'm in coastal Georgia. so do i go clock wise or...
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    Slam with loW cya?

    My cya isn't registering, so it has to be less than 25. Cya <25 TA 120 Ph 7.4 There's no chlorine in my pool right now. Can I go ahead and slam, using numbers for 20 cya? I'm going to increase cya using left over pucks.every 4 windshield raise approximately 10 cya. I believe.but ill monitor...
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    Wanted a house with a pool.... now what

    I recently bought a home with a huge pool. 20000 in ground. It was green and smelled of sewage. I've come so far. The cya level was 100 or more. I have it down to 30... if I'm testing right. I have been using liquid chlorine. But am thinking of some pucks to try to keep the cya level closer to...