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I know there are several other posts about this but after reading them all I still just can’t tell if what I have is mustard algae or simply pollen or dirt/sand. Here’s my current test results: TC: CC: PH: TA: CYA CH: (been told that for my vinyl liner that this doesn’t matter) The water is...

So a couple weeks ago I had some algae so I SLAMmed the pool. Yesterday I saw a water boatman and I know they feed on algae so I was very concerned. I decided to do another OCLT...chlorine went down by 1ppm (I know it’s a touch low right now and am about to add chlorine). My CC is .5 and the...

I am in the process of slamming my pool due to algae. Should I add the bleach in front of the returns like usual or should I disperse it all around the entire pool?

I’ve read on here how these weir doors are so important but my pool doesn’t have them. We bought this house 2 years ago and there weren’t any weir doors on the in-wall skimmers. Should all pools have them or do some not need them?

My husband is installing a heater for our pool tomorrow. I’ve heard that certain things like hardness need to be right in order to not damage the heater. It’s a stainless steel heat exchanger so my husband feels that because it’s stainless it won’t get affected by the water but I’m not so sure...

Hi. I have some stains on my vinyl pool liner that have already responded to ascorbic acid treatment 2 years ago but the spots only got lighter, they didn't completely go away and I just stopped trying. I want to try and get rid of them completely and so I was reading the article about ascorbic...

Hi. I have a lot of trees surrounding my property and recently I noticed that they have these spots on them and almost appear to be dead already so I googled it and learned that some trees end up getting fungus on their leaves. Have you ever heard of this? So my question is do you think that...