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Hello, Last year I struggled a little bit with aeration. We have a 14000 gallon above ground pool at 24' round. With that being said there were times I needed to lower TA. I believe I read baking soda was a bad method as I think I remember people saying it can cause cloudy water. With that said...

So, a little background, we are here in Pueblo Colorado area. We have a 24' Intex pool at 52" tall. UV degradation here seems to happen faster than most places ive lived so we take care to protect things that will suffer like that (many plastics). With that being said, I know there are...

Hey guys, I started a new method last year that worked exceptionally well. I'm starting to stock this year and I'm having a hard time getting liquid chlorine just like I was last year. We started supplementing and slamming with liquid at 10% and it was amazing. Is there an alternative to...

Hey everyone! I was wondering what recommended items or methods you have for salt tests. I am using aqua check strips for the ease of reading but after finding massive variations in the charts between bottles even though the strips all measure the same, I'm not sure I can trust them as I am...

We are getting solar panels on our roof within the next month and I was wanting to separate out some of our outdoor devices from the house, the pool being one of those. Does anyone have any experience is doing an off grid system for pools where they could give advice or even materials that will...

I had a few questions for you guys. I read that aeration will help bring up PH if Using MA to drop it in regards to controlling alkalinity. So... I used a fireplace brick, cleaned it heavily, and tied an air chuck to it and ran the compressor to try to aerate the water to bring PH up. I've tried...

Moved from here. To be honest, ours has been nothing but a nightmare with the cells sometimes not even lasting a month with our water properly balanced. Weve even taken samples of our water to 3 different pool places to ensure our readings were accurate. our hard water is hard to get down into...

Hello all, I am new to this site and joined to learn some tips and tricks as here and there we struggle with our pool. We got ours about 3 years ago however, our liner only lasted a couple years. We would love to keep it up year round as it can be a hassle to pull down, etc.. We were wondering...