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Hi all. I opened my pool at the end of April and it was milky/cloudy so I started a SLAM and have been doing so for what feels like 3 weeks. I know sand filters are hard to clear, but in the last week my water has been crystal clear. I've been brushing daily or at least every other day and I...

My IC40 died last fall so this spring I ordered a new one and sadly it came defective. A crack in it sent a plume of water spurting out the top behind the gray cap that sits under the flow cover. Anyway, I'm attempting to get this resolved with Amazon presently but I was tossing around the idea...

Hi all. I believe my SWG has died. 1. I've cleaned the cell with the water and muratic acid mix this week. It tried to produce chlorine I think, that night, but then has dropped off since. I've added liquid chlorine to keep my pool water nice. I've been running my SWG at 100% with the cover...

So, being new to having a pool...is this normal and is simply washing it away with water acceptable? I've read that using muratic acid and water will decrease the life of the SWG and I don't want to do that.

Hi Pool peeps. I can't find one thread that covers it all to ask the questions so here I go. How does one deal with mustard algae attempting to grow behind a submerged pool light beyond brushing it out every 5 days? I don't use algacide now. I maintain FC of 7-10 (which seems to keep the...

So I've read: Borates - Why and How I read the pros and cons and it seems to me that some here are very PRO borates and some seem very anti borates. So now I'm wanting to discuss that here with you guys/gals to see if I should bother with this or not. My TA and pH are a constant battle to...

Hi all. So this is my second test of the "season". Up to this point, my first test upon pool opening wasn't bad. It was actually warm that day. Then it dropped off into the 50's until today. Crazy year, crazy weather. Anyway, I had turned my SWG up a bit to get the FC a little higher for a...

I know air temp is chilly now but the water temp is being kept at 70 so why would my SWG suddenly say my salt is low when its been at 3000ppm practically all summer? Today's water chem: FC 6 pH 7.4 TA 100 CH 274 CYA 80 Salt 3000 water temp 71

I read that adding borates helps with this and I will likely look at going with borates in the spring. My question is how do I get softer water? My SWG is always getting that build up on the plates and I hate the idea of constantly using muratic acid to clean them. So I hit them monthly with...

I know my title is a bit confusing but here's what I'm trying to ask. When I run my SWG at 20% my FC drops to 4-5 and stays there, which I understand is on the lower side. If I run it at the next setting, 40% then FC jumps to 6.5-7 which is then a little high. I wish there was a 30% setting...

So a Merlin Vinyl liner rep told me that vinyl liners don't tolerate FC above 5 for prolonged time and that the vinyl can become almost sponge like thereby allowing water to get behind the liner. Seriously? FC of 5? For a SWG pool the range (non SLAM) is 4-6, per TFP. Why do I ask this...

Hi all. So I've been reading where algicides aren't necessary as long as one keeps their pool chemistry dead on (FC, pH, CYA, etc) and I'm now on top of that, having purchased the kit. I've read about the chemicals to use and not to use but I don't see anything on stain/rust/scale inhibitors...

I'm in the process of SLAM and I just got the test kit. I'm trying to understand what I'm doing as I'm new to having a pool and I'm not a chemist or mathematician. So I think I did the FC, CC and TC correctly. My CYA is a bit low perhaps, but I felt I did this one correctly too. Its the...

Hi all, I'm new here so please forgive my ignorance. Also I'm a first time pool owner. I was given Ultima T.K.O for shocking my pool due to a small mustard algae bloom and before I jumped headlong into dumping the requisite amount into my pool, I wanted to see if using such a chemical to shock...