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We've had our pool since March and have been dutifully cleaning the filter every other week with the good spray nozzle. Once every couple of months, we put the whole filter in a garbage can filled with pool water and MA to get it nice and white again. Today, as we pulled out the filter from...

In the last week, my SWG has gone from reporting 3300 salt level to 0 from one day to the next. We went and got our water tested at the forbidden pool store, where they got 2700. I bought a salt strip tester and went home. Same result, 2700. Put 2 bags of salt in pool, waited 2 days. My...

Hi, I'm a new pool owner of a pool that was finished at the end of February in the Orlando area. I was doing well with balancing and keeping the little monster fed with MA and not much else every couple of days. So now it's summer, sunny on my pool for a good 8 hrs a day, typical daily rain...

I have 2 Pentair Magic Bowls in my new pool, and have noticed that in only one month, the inside is "faded" from the waterline down. When I try to wipe it, it does come off, but not completely, without some work, and not easily. Anyone know if this is the salt from the water, or what else...

We've had our IG pool for about 3 weeks now, and I feel like I can control at least the pH now, and I've been lucky enough that the rest of the chemistry in my pool has been gracious and not terribly out of normal range. My new problem: We bought a Bullfrog Hot Tub (separate stand-alone spa)...

We are getting the "keys" to the pool tomorrow, and we are so ready to start using FTP ways to keep our pool the shiniest in the neighborhood. We've been using the T-K2006C kit to check up on our new pool's progress. Mostly, it's just been pH issues which Kimkat has been able to help with, and...

Please forgive my new pool ignorance, but I have to ask this question of somebody who would care about my pool rather than the builder, who may deny anything wrong. So I’m asking all of you on this board ;) in the skimmer, when you pull out the basket, we have two holes (or drains, pipes...

It's been about two weeks now that I've eagerly read and poured over everyone else's pool stories and pictures here on TFP. I'm so glad to have found this place and have learned so much already, but I know I have only just hit the proverbial tip of the iceberg at this point with all the...

Hi! My husband and I are new to Florida and new to the pool world. We are planning to build in the next month or so, depending on HOA acceptance. Still interviewing and getting quotes from builders, so we aren't completely ready to build yet. But I'm so glad I have found this forum because I...