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Trying to shock my 30,000 gallon pool. FC was 13 yesterday and CYA is 50, I put 4 121 oz bottles of 10% chlorinating liquid in yesterday, today the level is 12. My TFT-100 is less than a year old. Is it possible my test kit is bad or perhaps I got a bad batch of chlorine? I just can't see my...

This is my 1st pool and I've been maintaining it myself, this summer will be my 3rd season of maintaining the pool. 1st year no issues, 2nd year turned green and couldn't get rid of it until I learned about this site and determined that 150 stabilizer level was my culprit. After a couple 50%...

My CH reading was only 50, the laminated instruction sheet on the test kit says 250-400 is normal. Considering I have no masonry directly touching the pool at any point, is this something I need to worry about or can I leave the water nice and soft? As I mentioned the walls and bottom of the...

Is pool liner replacement something I can do myself, with no experience? I've had my sand filter and a couple pumps die this year and I've been shocked at the prices the pool company quoted to repair each of these items. I ended up doing the filter myself and am in the process of replacing my...

I have a 1.5 HP main pump which was replaced 19 months ago and it is already failing. The pump is labeled for 1 phase power but there are two switches on the breaker panel to control the pump. Is it possible I have 2p power and they installed a 1p motor, or would that have fried instantly and...

My main pool pump motor started getting louder about a month ago and I didn't think much of it. It has progressively been getting worse and tonight it sounds so bad it made me think it might explode so I had to turn it off. Well, of course this is the coldest night of the year and temps are...

The pool is a 30k gallon vinyl lined chlorine cleaned pool with a sand filter. We've been getting a LOT of rain over the past month and the pool has went from crystal clear to dark green over the past 2 weeks. We've shocked 3 times and used a Leslie's product called Green to Clean in the pool...