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  1. DocEric

    Advice for pool with air leak on the intake side

    Hi colleagues. Thank you for all of the wonderful advice in the forums. I’ve learned a lot in the 4 years since we’ve had a pool at our new house. I’m looking for advice here: The pool is an unground acrylic pool of about 13,000 gallons. It has the original cartridge filter which I’ve been told...
  2. DocEric

    Cloudy Water

    So I closed my pool myself (following TFP guidance!) last fall and opened it myself this spring. I used a standard closing kit in the fall and didn’t use any special chemicals this spring other than slamming it. it’s been hard this spring to get the water to clear. It’s been cloudy and I...
  3. DocEric

    Getting a stuck attachment out of a return pipe

    Hi all - dumb question here, but I’m at a loss and don’t want to break anything. I was trying to raise my pH after adding Muriatic acid and found a new fountain attachment that the previous owners had never used. I unscrewed the eyeball from one of my returns and screwed in this piece to connect...
  4. DocEric

    High alkalinity, low normal pH

    Hi all - TFP has been a godsend. I was visiting my local L pool store several time a week and they kept telling me my water was fine, or advising various chemicals to dump in it, so I was running quite a bill. Liquid chlorine is a bit of a pain, but the TFP plan has my pool clean and sparkling...