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    4" Outlet/Return on Leisure Bay Pool - Help!

    We are the second owners of an apx 15 yo Leisure Bay pool (company out of business). The return on the pool is broken - water pouring out. It is also HUGE. The hole in the pool wall/liner is currently 4 3/4" wide. When I walk into local places with this enormous piece their eyes bug out before...
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    Lake to Pool Contaminant Transfer possible?

    We are avid lake swimmers/boaters. One concern I have is inadvertently transferring microscopic anything from lake to pool. We keep separate swim suits as much as possible and I wash them but lifevests are not washable. Am I overthinking this?
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    Adding bleach daily?

    I'm new and very pleased with BBB. My numbers are great and the pool looks good (Knock Wood!) My only question is it normal to be adding a bit of bleach daily? It's not much but when the pool calc calls for it I do. I think it's hard to break the puck mindset of drop it and forget it for days.
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    Newbie to BBB has pesky CYA Question

    We are very happy with BBB and the appearance of our pool. We were able to leave for the weekend and even with no additional chlorine beyond what I raised on Friday afternoon, we came home to a sparkling clean pristine pool. We could not be happier. My question is that the pool will not hold...
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    THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!

    I came here because I was having the classic "Pool Story" experience. I call it "Pool Story" because it is never ending - and I believe they are making it up as they go along. :) After our last long weekend away I treated it per instructions with my weekly $50 in chemicals and came home to...
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    BBB and Frequent Travel?

    I'm curious how you handle frequent "away" time from your pool using the BBB method (long weekends more often than not through the summer) when a house/pool sitter is NOT an option.
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    Help a Newbie out?

    Day 4 of BBB Method and already much happier with the look of the pool! Stains are gone (knock wood!) and water looks sparkly and clear. (Under Pool Store tutelage our pool was intentionally dropped to 0 chlorine and 6.8 pH so the low start numbers were expected). But ... I can't get my...
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    Repeat Stains on Vinyl Pool Liner

    History: Pool liner and filter both 7 years old. Topped off as needed with water from Kinetico treatment system as we have high iron content/hard well water. Tested regularly by pool store - no metals noted. Ph does tend to run high in this pool but we are working to monitor and balance as...
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    Cloudy water? Help me decide what to fix first?

    Do I really need a PhD in Chemistry to do this? Heading into my fourth summer with our AG pool and so far not so good. In past years I threw in a few pucks, shocked weekly, ran the EZ Vac, swirled some test strips around like, oh, almost never (I think I tested it twice all last summer - which...