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Hey all, the top rails on my pool are starting to show some rust, particularly in "high traffic" areas. Recommendation of how to treat that? should I take them off one by one and wire brush/paint? if so, what kind of paint? Looking for any guidance .

On my filter cartridge - is this an issue? Also, my pressure keeps going up, I think I'm gonna mix up some cleaner and give my cart a good 24 hour soak. 1 cup of TSP to 5 gallons of water, right????

The acid in a trichlor tablet should lower TA as well as pH, right? The effects of adding calculator doesn’t reflect any change in TA. *not my pool, trying to help a friend that won’t fully commit to tfpc

June 3-Today

Once again, I never learn, and I find myself banging my head against the wall trying to help people located on some of the various pool care facebook groups. Why, oh why, are they all so adamant that more pools are going green this year because its so much hotter and so much more rain? These...

Looking at possibly adding a SWG to my 24 foot round ABG, along with a potential filter change. Looking for suggestions for an affordable SWG that will be easy to DIY, I have no automation nor immediate plans to add any, however some day I may add automation with a solar heater.

Finally getting my pool up and running after needing some plumbing repairs. Finally got everything fixed last night, leak tested everything, tested the pump, etc. I realized that when I was leak testing and testing the pump, I didn't have the baskets in the pool OR pump strainer and it sucked...

“Up to” $1,000 trade in for your old device. So the deal looks like this: iPhone 13 Pro Max $1,099 Trade in my iPhone 11 Pro Max -$1,000 $99 outright or $4.16 a month for 24 months @0%…. $10/month device access credit if you have a 5G device So, they are paying my $5.84 a month to get a 2...

Does this mode work for all Dolphin cleaners? Does it just bypass the power switch on the controller and work any time the unit is receiving power?

I've been pondering this as I prepare to replace my filter in the off season. Is there any reason that you couldn't, using a standalone MPV, backwash a cartridge filter in lieu of disassembling it and rinsing the cartridges?

Anyone have a suggestion for why the different sections of my liner seem to be fading at different rates?

I need to replace my cartridge filter. Considering switching to sand. Is this a horrible idea? I just despise the hour plus it takes me to disassemble my housing, hose out my cartridge, reassemble, etc. What size of a filter should I be shopping for? Local pool store has a 300 lb Hayward in...

Who has pictures of how they have done it? Rolling the cover on and off the reel and pivoting off the pool is the bane of my existence

Is it normal for the walls to bow out between the supports? Posting for a friend who is planning a liner replacement soon and hoping his pool is OK structurally

I’m doing some repair work to the deck on my AGP. I’ve been pretty diligent about working in a manner to minimize the amount of sawdust and debris getting in the pool, but I’ve still ended up with enough that I’m going to need to clean my cartridge filters soon. Im getting ready to trim the...

Is there any way to prevent algae from growing on the string that holds my thermometer? It only occurs right at/around the waterline.

This yellow ring around the inside? Any clues as to what it may be? O-ring lube that has pollen or some other funk in it?

Messing around with PoolMath this morning. 2 lbs of Trichlor in my 13,000 gallon pool will raise FC by 17 and CYA by 10. It will drop my pH by .9 and add some salt. Won’t the acid added in the Trichlor also drop my TA? PoolMath seems to omit this from the effects of adding section. Omitted from...

It’s becoming apparent to me that the decking choice we made when we built our deck was a mistake. The material we used under our carpeting was advertised as being ok for the application that we were planning to use it for, this is turning out to not be the case. We have a couple soft spots...

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I understand that most (all?) basic water parameter tests from the pool store are not to be tested, I wondered if they booger up salt tests as well? Considering adding salt for feel (and eventually a SWG......) not sure I want to, or need to buy my own salt test yet if I’m not trying to stay...

I apparently had an issue with a wind storm taking one of my umbrellas and an umbrella base off the deck and relocating them to the bottom of the pool. Just came out to check on the pool and found it. when fishing out the umbrella it led to a significant cloud of rusty water coming out of the...

Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing to show signatures on a mobile device?

Has anyone ever used a quick pop up style shade canopy IN their AGP? If so, what did you do to : 1: protect the liner from the metal legs And 2: protect the metal legs from rusting?

I’m trying to use up a few chemicals that my dad had left over from his hot tub - sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium bisulfate. My pH has been low because of the trichlor tablets I’ve been using (store was out of liquid and I could stand some CYA anyways, I was only running around...

Woke up this morning and my VSP was off. Breaker was tripped, and won’t reset. Threw my robot in the pool for some circulation and went to work when it became apparent that it wouldn’t be simple. Any tips or tricks of what to look for? Planning when I get home to: 1: Attempt a reset again 2...

Never seen this before, photo attached. FC 2.5 CC Trace <.5 PH7.5 TA 70 CH 200 CYA 20 working on bringing my CYA up slowly with some tablets I was gifted, this reading was right now, 10PM so my chlorine level has been good. I know that it hasn’t dipped below 2, which is minimum for my CYA. I...

Without any intervention from me? Has gone from being in the high 7s to the low 7s (most recently 7.3) without me adding any acid other than CYA (which affects it but it is negligible). My TA is normally high with the fill water here, and as such my pH always drifts UP and I must add MA to drop...

Just ordered refills for my TF 100. What do I do with all my existing reagents? Dump them down the drain? Will they hurt my septic? Should I just throw them whole in the garbage?

Is there any reason I shouldn’t? Went to the pool store today to get an o ring for my filter, and the store can’t even get them anymore. The warehouse doesn’t even carry them, nor does it seem any parts for the filter. I found the o-ring online, so crisis averted there... but I’m thinking I...