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We rarely use our spa these days, primarily because the heater is broken and we're not willing to pay to fix it at this time. However, yesterday we had some family over and they wanted to experience the jets, so I turned the spa on for them. Today, the pool is stuck running on spa-side-only...

https://www.troublefreepool.com/content/138-water-balance-for-swg-saltwater-chlorine-generator There's no explanation there of why the 60-80 range is recommended. My SWG manual suggests 80-120. I'd like to increase my Calcite Saturation Index (currently at -0.41), and increasing my TA seems...

I was weighing salt to add to my pool last night and after a few batches of measurements I noticed that the scale was set to kilograms rather than pounds. I know the first addition was in pounds, and I know my toddler was playing near there when I stepped away to dump the salt in the pool, and...

Title pretty much says it all. I'm SLAMming, and trying to follow the recommendation to pump 24/7. After the first night, I thought maybe it was the fault of an errant Schedule in my EasyTouch controller system, so I went in the remote and deleted all of the Schedules, but after the second...

I'm cleaning up after Hurricane Irma. My pool is under screen so there wasn't TOO much debris, but the power was out for about 4 days and the water was definitely dirty and gross. I got all the debris removed, filter cleaned, etc, and now I'm SLAMming. (To complicate things, my CYA is low...

My CYA test has me viewing a vial of murky liquid from the top down, waiting for a black dot at the bottom of the vial to disappear. How picky should I be about waiting for the black dot to be indiscernible? If I can make it out at all, then I keep adding liquid. I've tried twice now, and...

I knew absolutely nothing about pools before I bought a home with one this past June. I got up to speed pretty quickly on cleaning the pool and filter, but I was intimidated by the chemistry aspect and put it off for about a month. I went to the local pool store which has always done the...