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I'm going to have to leave town for 4 days and don't have anyone to add chlorine to our pool while we are away. CYA is 30 since I just completed a SLAM. If I increased CYA to 40, would I still have chlorine remaining after 4 days if I got it up to SLAM level before leaving town and ran the...

After completing 3 days of a SLAM, I'm not seeing much progress. When we opened up the pool 6 days ago, the water was extremely green, but the green went away after running the pump for several days before starting the SLAM, even though I didn't add much chlorine during that time. When I...

I need some advice on the order to add the necessary chemicals to start a SLAM. Here are my latest test results, after running the pump for 24 hours. FC - 0 CC - .5 (how is this possible since water is green?) TA - 40-50 (turns kinda purple at 40, red at 50) PH - 8.3 (its a purple-pink color)...

It has rained several inches over the past few days so we desperately need to rain water out of the pool. When we had a crack fixed by a fiberglass pool professional several years ago, I was told to never drain the pool if there is ground water present because it can cause the fiberglass to...

We would like to do a lot of traveling this summer and were considering either getting an inline chlorinator installed to use when we are on vacations or convert to salt so we don't have to pay someone to add liquid chlorine to our pool while we are away. We'd like to put our solar cover over...

I did a soft close earlier this month and my pool is going to be winterized by a local pool guy on Monday so I don’t have to worry about any freeze damage when freezing overnight temperatures start occurring in a few days. We normally add polyquat at closing but I decided to close at SLAM...

We are getting ready to go on vacation for 4 days and need some advice on what to do with our pool while we are away since the trees that surround our pool are dropping leaves like crazy right now. Yesterday our pump lost prime because the skimmer got clogged with leaves while we were away for...

Can polyquat be added in front of a deep end return like liquid chlorine so it gets dispersed around the pool quickly? If so, do you need to dilute it in a bucket of water before pouring it in since it rather oily and do you need to brush it in after adding it? I normally pour the polyquat...

I’d like to start a SLAM tonight since my water was green at opening yesterday. I added some liquid CYA to increase the CYA to 30 awhile ago and need to know what else to add. I’m having trouble interpreting my TA and PH test results and could use some advice. When testing TA, sample turned...

We are closing early this year because our pool company is short on staff and the only opening they had was tomorrow (Oct 13). Due to a recent string of warm weather, water temperature has risen to 65-67 degrees so I plan on adding poly 60 at half shock level (8) tonight, after I vacuum the...

Our pool is surrounded by birch trees that are dumping seeds into the pool like crazy right now. I'm getting ready to start a SLAM and I'm wondering if I should use a skimmer sock to prevent the seeds from going into the pump and sand filter. I've used a skimmer sock in the past and the pump...

We have a Mineral Springs by Bioguard Saltwater Generator at our house that was probably installed in 2003. It was working fine until last summer when our 9-year-old Hayward T-Cell 15 stopped producing chlorine. We manually dosed with liquid chlorine last year which was very expensive and...

Does it complicate things for a pool service company if the mesh safety cover is already on the pool when they arrive to winterize it? Can they just peel back the cover near my two returns and skimmer to winterize them and could that potentially damage my old mesh cover? I'm having a hard time...

When adding polyquat to your pool at closing, can you just add it in front of a return without brushing afterwards like you do with liquid chlorine? If so, do I add the whole bottle in front of the deep end return or do I need to add some in front of the shallow end return too? A pool service...

I went to check my skimmer basket this morning and there was a frog in the mouth of the skimmer. When I pulled the basket out to remove some leaves, the frog must have went down one of the holes in the skimmer because I didn't see it anywhere inside or outside of the pool. I've kept the pump...

We just got back from a week-long vacation. Before we left, we got the pool up to shock level, put our old mesh safety cover on, and turned the pump off so we wouldn't have to worry about the pool while we were gone. Since the pump was off for 7 days, temperatures had been in the lower 90s, we...

We are getting ready to go on a week-long vacation soon and will not be able to run the pump while we are away because our pool is surrounded by trees, we have no timer, and our pool equipment is old and problematic. I need some advice on what we can do to prevent the pool from turning in to a...

Our salt water cell has died so we are using liquid chlorine to chlorinate our pool until we can afford to replace it. We recently completed a SLAM, passed the OCLT, and bumped up the CYA to 55 with liquid CYA. We are losing 4-5 ppm of chlorine a day which is more chlorine loss than I expected...

First time opening our pool today. We replaced the plugs to the pump, sand filter, and gas heater, turned the pump on and everything appeared to be fine until we noticed that water was dripping out the plug that we replaced in the heater. We took the plug out, wrapped some teflon tape around...

I’m getting ready to open our swampy pool by myself for the first time and need to know what I need to do to de-winterize our old Hayward H series gas pool heater which stopped working a few years ago for some unknown reason. We never used it so we never bothered fixing it or buying a new one...

Our inground pool was winterized by a local pool service this fall. We were planning on opening it up ourselves this year to save money. Before we attempt to do this, I have a few questions. 1) Is there anything we need to do to the gas heater to unwinterize it before we turn the pump on...

The pool professional who closes our pool wants to drill 6 new holes in our concrete deck because 6 of our loop loc cover anchors are stuck. Three of them have bolts that are stripped. Two appear to have been tightened too tightly so they won't budge. One bolt just spins when you try to loosen...

I have been maintaining my pool the TFP way for years and have slammed my pool numerous times. This is the first time that I remember opening to a CYA of 0 though, so I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly before I start the slam. PH is 8.0 so I know that I need to decrease it to...

We plan on selling our house in the next year or two and we are trying to decide if we should fix the problems with our 15-year-old fiberglass pool or remove it. The biggest issue with this pool is that it is over 2" off level. (The shallow end is approximately 2 inches lower than the deep...

Last year, our pool pro was unable to remove 6 anchors on our deck. Three of them have bolts that are stripped. The other three appear to have been tightened too tightly and they wouldn't budge when the pool pro tried to loosen them with his drill We just left those anchors unattached all...

I'm going to have to close this year with a water temperature of 66 degrees because my pool closing is already scheduled for this week and my PB can't do it at a later date. I plan on adding polyquat the night before closing since water temperature is above 60 and I have a mesh cover...

We had a thunderstorm with high winds a few days ago. We came home to a skimmer basket full of leaves and sticks. The pump lost prime and there was water and bubbles pulsating out of the return jets. After cleaning up the pool, I managed to get the pump working again, and it appears to be...

My pool is surrounded by trees that drop leaves and seeds into my pool constantly. I'm looking for an inexpensive cover to put over the pool when I go on vacation and during the fall and early spring when the leaves/seeds are dropping constantly and its too cold to swim. I've got a mesh...

I like to use a floating chlorinator while I'm on vacation since I don't know anyone that I can trust to add chlorine daily that lives nearby. I've noticed that the floating chlorinator tends to get stuck near the ladder, in a corner, in the skimmer opening, or near the steps in the shallow end...

I need to increase the calcium hardness in my pool and the only calcium that I can find in my local store is HTH Calcium Pods. According to the information on the container, these water-soluble pods are premeasured into 1 pound quantities and you are supposed to just toss them into the pool, let...