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Good news, everyone! I graduated my PB's pool school this morning. (I look forward to your graduation gifts.) Unfortunately, the course on pump run time was limited to "in the summer, I'd run it at 3000 rpm from about 10 to 6." I know that's not taking advantage of the variable-ness of my...

We finished filling our new pool this morning, the PB was just out to do his "startup" procedure. He got the pump going, dumped a bunch of muriatic acid (maybe 2 gallons?) in front of a return, and then proceeded to empty an ENTIRE 9 lb tub of stabilizer into the skimmer! Before I could run...

So after months of construction, we had plaster installed today, acid wash will be tomorrow, and then WE FILL! Going to use water from the hose so I thought I'd test our tap water with my brand new K2006. Here's what I got: pH: 8.0 CH: 125ppm TA: 175ppm I don't think I needed to test anything...

I posted this in my pool build thread but I think my questions got lost there -- sorry for the duplicate posts but I'd really appreciate anyone's thoughts on the following. ----------------- So I guess we were due for for a hiccup or two in what has so far been a problem-free install. Over the...

Hi TFPers, We broke ground on our IG pool in mid-June, so we're right in the middle of the "giant mess" phase. Completion date in contract is 8/30 but PB says we're moving along pretty quick and might be swimming before that, fingers crossed. Received bids from a few PBs ranging from large...