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    Ideal PH and TA before starting a SLAM

    What is the ideal PH and TA when starting a SLAM when you intend on adding Dichlor to the pool to increase the CYA until it gets to 30? CYA appears to be 0, PH appears to be 7.2 and TA appears to be 50-60. I thought I would use Dichlor in the beginning until I’ve added enough to increase CYA...
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    Preparing to close pool surrounded by trees

    Our pool is surrounded by trees that are dropping leaves into the pool like crazy right now. I need some advice on what I need to do to keep our pool clean and balanced until I close my pool next week so I don’t end up with an algae bloom soon after closing. I plan on closing with polyquat 60...
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    What to do with unused pool all summer

    We aren’t going to have time to swim in our pool thIs summer for various reasons so we are trying to decide what we need to do to prevent it from turning into a stinky swamp over the summer. It was winterized last fall and is now covered by a mesh cover. I peeked under the cover and the water...
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    Concerns about closing my older fiberglass pool at shock level

    I’ve got a 20-year old fiberglass pool with a mesh cover. Water temperature is now 60 degrees so I thought I’d skip the polyquat this year since it doesn’t seem to help and just close at shock level. I’m concerned, however, about the effect the high chlorine level will have on old our mesh...