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Hello, I live in Arizona and own a roughly 15K gal plaster (Pebbletec) pool. A handful of years ago I made the switch to using only liquid chlorine for sanitizing. That, along with muriatic acid, are the only chemicals I use. The increase in liquid chlorine prices (now $18 for a 2-gal box at...

Hello, I am in AZ and just finished draining my pool (just under 15K gal PebbleTec pool). Our calcium is pretty high here and I seem to have to drain about every 2 yrs. For context my Calcium Hardness was about 750 prior to the drain. I drained the pool on Wed, 4/29 and had it almost filled...

Hello, this morning around 8a I tested my water and found that my pH and TA were high at 8.0+ and 230 respectively. I used Pool Math to calculate the appropriate amount of muriatic acid to lower the pH to 7.1; that amounted to 134 ounces of acid. The plan was to aerate after that to bring pH...

Hey all, Historically I have been a tab user. However, in summer of 2018 I had a major algae bloom. Due to a hectic work travel schedule, vacations, etc. I failed to treat it properly (clean filter cartridges, SLAM, etc.) and instead kept feeding the pool tabs thinking more chlorine would do...

Hello, a couple of months ago I had an algae bloom infiltrate my pool. I made the mistake of failing to clean my filter AND shock the pool properly. I just kept adding tabs and the algae problem persisted. I finally wised up and cleaned out my filter cartridges, but the weeks I spent adding...

Hello, I am new to this forum and could use some help. On 4/6 I arrived back home from a work trip to find my pool quite yellow and dirty. I shocked the pool, added some soda ash (this was based on water test results I had my wife get from Leslie's...I was too busy to do it myself). After...