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Got the Google Photos "1 year ago today" photo yesterday...opened it up and it was a picture of my wife and daughter in our new pool. How time flies! Just wanted to give a shout out to this website and all the great advice I've received since joining. Had a pool built last year and one...

Was swimming with my daughter on Monday and she said, "Dad, the plaster feels so smooth...kind of slippery" This immediately got my attention...she likes to help me inspect our plaster while swimming. She was referring to the plaster on one of the pool walls. I went over and felt it and it...

So I've been a member of this great site for almost a year now. I've decided that I'll be running my pool in two different modes...summer mode and winter mode. I had this idea this winter when I was pumping out 6 inches of water every few months to get my CYA down around 30 to start the new pool...

Hi all, So I went to the pool store today to get some muratic acid. Took my water in for them to sample so I could get $5 off my acid purchase. Surprisingly, their results were very close to mine. They gave me spill on "you have high phosphates and need something to lower that"...I just said...

My good friend lives around the corner and we had our pools built last year by same builder at the same time. I found this great site and do all the testing/water chemistry on my pool. He has a "pool guy". Out of curiosity, he brought over his water for me to test yesterday. I use the...

My friend around the block had his pool built at same time as I did this past summer in June. He has a "pool guy" coming every two weeks. I've tried to convince him on how easy it is to do yourself with just a little knowledge and proper testing kit...but....no go He told me he contacted his...

Cold front came through and wanted to test my water out of curiosity. What I found was my CSI was (-0.42)...much closer to the lower limit recommendation of (-0.6) than my water has ever been. My results are: FC 8 CC 0 PH 7.6 TA 60 CYA 60 CH 250 WATER TEMP 72F I've been letting my TA drift a...

Wanted to post this as a safety flash for all that have to add Muratic Acid. Recently, I had some eye irritation in my right eye...under my eyelid...was painful to close my eye lid which made sleeping very difficult. After 2 weeks, couldn't take it anymore and went to eye Dr. She said there...

My CH has been 200 since I got my new plaster pool going in early June. Was just rereading the recommended levels for CH for plaster pools and it's 250-350. What specifically will happen to my plaster if I stay at 200? I have some Cal Hypo shock i can use to bring that up....bought it when i...

So I'm on my 4th day of converting from Trichlor pucks to liquid chlorine. Was wondering if there is a recommendation on how long one should wait to enter the water after adding my daily dose of liquid chlorine. So far, I've been adding at 6am when I got off night shift so it hasn't been an...

Ok so it's been 3 days since I started making the switch from Triclor pucks in my inline chlorinator to 10% liquid chlorine. My goal was to try and reduce my inline chlorinator setting to 1.5 (0 is no flow and 5 is highest flow) to keep just a little stablizer going into the pool but to get...

My pool has been up and running now for almost a month. I have been using Triclor 3" tabs but before the tomato throwing begins, I started yesterday switching to liquid chlorine. I know the Triclor pucks are very acidic. My question is: After almost a month, I did notice a continued trend...

I work in the oil/gas industry and we always use some form of "anti-seize" on pipe threads. So I'm curious about the threads of the eyeballs on all my returns and the bubblers on the tanning shelf. Wondering if those threads need some kind of "anti-seize" on them. Pool is going on 10 days...

Looking for some help on the proper way to test my CYA with my T 2006. I've seen a few posts here about looking for the black dot while holding it at your waist level as you as standing up. I've literally been working everyday since opening my pool and have had no time to read the...

Hi all...one week member here....new plaster pool 7 days old Ok I need some facts as I'm very confused on this topic. I've been reading so much and I can't remember what is fact or not. I have two bubblers on a shallow sun tanning shelf that put the water about 1 foot in the air above the...

Hello all, new member here. I have the Taylor 2006 test kit and it has me put 2 scoops of that white powder in, then put the drops in etc etc My question is about the scoops...it seems like an inaccurate way of doing it....Ive been trying to make my scoops flat with the surface of the...

New member here...wondering how long it takes for my post to show up. I submitted it over an hour ago. Thanks

Hello all, I'm a new pool owner of about 1 week. Plaster pool with some blue flakes in it. 17,000 gallon pool. My question is about using Jacks Magic Metal Sequestering Agent as a preventative measure in addition to using Leslie's "Perfect Weekly" I read on here that you should not use a...