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Sooooo I had my TF Test Kit a year and a half and I knew it was needing replacement as the chlorine test powder was hard but we were still using it as we were likely moving. Long story short we ended up accidentally leaving our test kit out in the sun while we were away for two weeks and...

Thanks to TFP we have been able to keep our pool cleaner than ever and have done a much better job on our own than when we had hired people. However, I noticed when the leaves fell in over fall and spring despite us cleaning them out the stairs turned brown and the there is a bit of brown along...

When we purchased this house a the SWCG board was fried so we have yet to use our pool as a salt water pool. Since then my dogs chewed up the wires to the salt cell so we are finally ready to purchase a whole new system and put a fence around our equipment. I am also having our lines blown and...

Okay looking for anyone's advice that may have had the same issue when raising their pH levels? I added a 6 lb bag of pH up which is basically soda ash and one carton of baking soda which was another pound to get my pH up to the desired level based on the pool math calculations. Our pool...

Hey everyone I'm just wondering if anyone can help me understand the science behind why I would need to add acid to my pool if my pH level is still a little bit below where it should be? I assume that adding acid will lower the pH and then I will have to maybe add pH Up from Home Depot to get...

I didn't see it in the instructions but I was just curious how you guys dispose of the test agents after completing your pool tests? Do you dump it back in your pool, or down the toilet/sink? Or pour out somewhere in your yard? I don't know much about what chemicals are in the TF-100 kit so I...

Looking forward to continuing to learn more about how to manage a pool on my own so I can get away from the pool stores and pool maintenance companies. We bought a house with a pool in 2019 so we are very new to managing a pool and have used maintenance companies up until a month ago! We have...

Hi everyone, I am new to TFP and have recently started trying to maintain my own pool and have been struggling with something that is either heavy metals or mustard algae I presume? We have been dealing with multiple pool maintenance companies with some success but have always found debris in...