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I had a slow drip at the drain plug of my filter so I removed it and put on a new oring, lubricated it, and put it all back together. Unfortunately, I still have a leak, but only when the pump is on. Did I just not tighten the drain plug enough or could there be something else? The filter does...

I live in an area without a pool store. I've been looking for a more concentrated bleach than the 6% at Walmart so I called around & found a pool supply store about 40 mins away who said the percentage of sodium hypochlorite is 20-22% - is that even possible (I've never heard such a high...

I think I goofed! I researched automatic cleaners, weighed the pros & cons, & decided I wanted a pressure side cleaner for the pool. So a couple of weeks ago I bought a Polaris 360 on Ebay. What I didn't consider was the fact that our pool has an Aqua Genie skimmer system & there's no way that...

HELP!!! We got back from vacation 2 weeks ago & I'm still struggling to get my pool back in shape. Before we left everything was fine. I went ahead and shocked the pool before we left & had my neighbor add bleach every other day. Apparantly that wasn't enough because we came home to a partially...

Tested CYA this morning & it's just below 30ppm - my test doesn't register any lower so I'm guessing it's somewhere in the 20's. The rest of my #'s are: FC - 1.0 CC - 0 pH - 7.7 TA - 80 CYA <30 Temp 76 What should I do next? I opened this year using BBB, but I still have plenty of chlor brite...

This is my first post on this forum & I'm so so thankful to be able to ask questions here! :D I uncovered a very green pool about 5 weeks ago & used the BBB method to kill all the bad stuff & clear it up. I THOUGHT I was all set for the season until I got in the pool for the first time...