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Hi everyone. My SWG is three years old. I take the SWG inside for the winter. This year when I hooked it back up it was totally dark. No power or lights on at all. Inside the power box it looks fine, green light is on near the small fuse. I changed to fuse to be safe, still nothing. I bought a...

Hi Everyone, Just opened my pool in NC, initial water a little cloudy and insane amounts of worms. I filled with my well water, which is high in iron, fixed one leaking pipe and broke pressure gauge, running the Melvin the robot vacumn every chance I get. After filling and pump running initial...

Thanks in advance everyone. You guys are great. As above, new vinyl liner, new water, first time SWG. I’ve added baking soda, chlorine, CYA. Tonights numbers: FC 0.5. (FC 0 yesterday added a gallon to get to 3 ppm, 0.5 tonight so added 2 gallons) CYA still 0 (Started in sock in skimmer...

Hi everyone! Just had my new vinyl liner and SWG installed and I’m confused on how to start to balance. FC 0 PH very low. It was yellow in color Salt 0 TA 30 CYA 0 Temp is 61 degrees and water almost full enough to start pump and start to balance. What goes first? Thanks for help you guys...

I bought my new house with the pool 15 months ago. Had a great season with the help of TFP all year. I closed the pool a month ago and in recent days the pool water has begun to drain away under the tarp cover. I have no idea how old the vinyl liner is but it’s old, it’s stretched and pulled...

Hi Everyone, thanks for help. New pool owner here. I started with half empty swamp pool in March. I refilled pool and CYA level was 80. With this website and forum I SLAMed the pool and it went great. Loving my pool which is clean and clear. Two questions. 1) 4-6 weeks ago we had a lot of...

Hi And thanks in advance for help. My pool is new to me and I’ve taken over this year from a pool service. Opened the pool with a SLAM and your help and all going fantastic. After drain and refill of half the pool CYA levels were at 80 to start and I planned to do another drain and refill again...

New pool owner just taking over from once a week pool service. Started with a swamp as winter cover had blown in. Have been vacuuming and backwashing sand filter as needed. Pool appearance is much better BUT..... I’m worried it’s still cloudy. Last nights numbers FC 32 CC 0 CYA 80 This...

I bought a house last fall with a pool that was maintained with a once a week pool service. They closed but I intend to take over. Over the winter the cover blew in so I started this year with a swamp. In ground pool. I'm guessing 25,000 gallons by calculations. Sand filter, there is a...