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    Playing 'find the leak'

    I'd love to treat this as a game, but thus-far locating the source of our pool leak has been anything but fun. We're renting a house with an in-ground vinyl pool about 30k gallons (105,000 square inches, average 5.5' depth) and just opened the pool about a week ago. The pool guy who opened it...
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    Is it dead algae, sand from the filter, or something else?

    We just opened the pool 12 days ago and the pool has been in swimming condition for the past few days. I've been keeping the pool at shock levels on a daily basis and find what I believe is dead algae at the bottom each day, but less and less. An overnight FC loss test will happen soon but I'm...
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    Recently opened - When to stop daily shock?

    Hey folks... I've had my pool open for 9 days now and the last couple days have really started to look great - nice clear/blue water. I've been keeping the pool at shock levels each day and every day I'm greeted to more dead gray algae on the bottom that I skimmer vac up and backwash. What...
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    First Timer with BBB method - order of operations?

    Hey folks, First let me say thanks for this great forum. My wife and I are renting a house that has an inground vinyl pool which hasn't been open for a season or two, so we had our work cut out turning it from green (or black) to blue. Today is the first day that I'm seeing a nice blue/green...