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    Help Balancing

    OK... i was doing great entering Labor Day Weekend. The pool was clearing up and I had planned to close a clear pool. I guess I wasnt paying attention and by he Thursday after Labor Day, my pool had turned green. I was going to just let it go green and deal with it next year, but I wont be able...
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    Pool won’t clear.

    Hey back again for some advice. What would you suggest for a cloudy pool? It never clears when the pump is on. But if I take off the pump for a couple days, the pool will clear with all the debris on the pool floor. I’ll vacuum but the some debris will rise and cloud the pool again. Is there...
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    Positioning Silde Plates

    Is there a particular position that the skimmer slide plates should be in? I ask because it seems like my water is dropping too quickly everyday. A couple weeks ago, it was at a stable level. But since the weekend, it seems to be dropping a quarter inch to a half inch everyday. Can this be...
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    Chlorine vs Free Chlorine

    What's the relationship between Chlorine and Free Chlorine? Are they one in the same. My Chlorine level is about a .5 right now. I want to raise it to about 3 or 4 ppm. I want my FC between 5 and 8. Is there a method to balancing Cl and FC independent of one another?
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    Intermatic Timer Rotating Backwards

    My pool timer is moving backwards. This has been occurring since the opening of my pool this summer. Last year, the timer worked fine. It took me a while to notice that that was the reason my pool pump would not automatically turn off and on. It would just get stuck by the on/off switch. Last...
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    First Day of School

    Hey guys... I am a new homeowner. The home came with a pool. I had no idea how much work went into keeping this thing clear. It seems like I'm spending $200 a month at the pool store. All they tell me is shock it. Keep shocking it till it gets clear. But it's "clear" that that does not work. I...