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Last season was first winter with a Mayco mesh cover. In addition to letting in a LOT of dirt, there was a considerable amount of leaves in the pool. Apparently the cover will lift a little when the wind is blowing hard here in Oklahoma (last couple of days getting near 40 mph gusts) and the...

I want to join in on this thread, as I too am battling similar staining in addition to almost the entirety of bottom of pool has brown “spider webby” stains that I attributed to my green algae bloom (see my post “Don’t Buy a Meyco Cover…..”over in other Everything Else) I’m perplexed because a...

I live in Tulsa, ok area and for 20 years have used cheap 30x50 tarp and water tubes to close pool. However, we decided to try a mesh cover this year because well, you know, “the tarp is so ugly and the tubes and the……..” So we paid $6000 to have a Meyco Rugged Mesh safety cover installed. I...

Moved from HERE I think I may have same issue. I have air bubbles in my strainer pot and only have a skim line for circulation. (I paid a company to find the leak in the drain side, but they couldn’t find one.) I replaced my skimmer pot because it was cracked at the bottom and put a new lid...

Hello all, Opened the pool today. Very obvious low return flow in the three discharge ports accompanied by a lot of air bubbles that range in size from big at what I assume to be discharge port closest to pump (see attached photo) to very small bubbles at the other two. Using my hand to gauge...

Started manually vacuuming after removing pool cover and opening pool for season. I noticed that vacuum head was not picking up much dirt/leaf debris from bottom as usual. I started investigating why. I discovered when I connect the vacuum hose to the port in skimmer, a fist sized air...

Opened pool and started to vacuum with my manual vacuum and it seems to be not as effective. Also, when the vacuum hose is installed, I get air in top of pump basket lid. If I disconnect the hose at skimmer, the air in pump basket dissipates. However, I am getting small stream of bubbles from...

After studying the internet last night, i think this orientation they (specifically Inyo) was directing me to. That doesn’t look right and I’m pretty sure that’s not what order I took them out. it may me doubt whether I had the old one correctly installed. In the second picture, is the...

Finally opened my pool. My readings this morning after SLAM chlorination and adding acid to lower PH to 7.0 and aerating overnight: FC 18 Ph 7.4 TA 100 CH 240 CYA 50 The TA was 100 when I started this process. i.e., I haven’t been able to lower by TA. I am continuing to aerate to raise my Ph...

Hello, I have a “cheap” tarp secured around the perimeter with water tubes for winterization. (I also ordered a leaf net, and should have been doing this all along) This season, my tarp is leaking as evidenced by the amount of water that collects over night after I pump the water off. However...

Howdy, For starters, my plaster is 15 years old. I didn’t discover TFP till about 4 years ago, and based on my experience here, there was no way my pool was chemically balanced by the pool “service” I paid. I think my bad water chemistry ate my outter layer of plaster. I may be making that up...

Two days ago I tested water and Ph was 7.0, TA 90, CH 260 CYA 0 I followed the guidance provided by PoolMath (add 215 oz of Borax) The Ph is very high now. I don’t know exactly how high it really is, as test kit stops at 8. Water sample is very red after adding test droplets. I am attempting...

Got this going on. Does the pool need to be drained to repair this? Do you reuse the old tile or find a suitable replacement? I'm getting close to a replaster, as current plaster is 14 years old, and it suffered from years of poor chemistry (until I got smart with TFP:thumleft:) Should I just...

Regarding the Ph section of PoolMath: One of the solutions to lowering Ph is to add dry acid. My understanding is that dry acid is granular form of a chemical solid. The options are to "add xxx by weight or xxx by volume of dry acid." I have interpreted the guidance given here and in other...

I tested my CH after nearly nine inches of rain recently and it was 220. PoolMath recommends 260, and said to add 207 oz by weight or 160 oz. by volume of calcium chloride. I had a 8 lb. bag of Pool Mate brand Calcium Increaser (active ingredient calcium chloride compound) According to the bag...

When I enter the results of testing of my water, the Taylor supplied Watergram whiz wheel gives a different answer that the results obtained on PoolMath. Today's readings: TA: 110 CH: 220 Ph: 7.6 Temp: 88 Watergram: .15 PoolMath: .04 The Watergram is educational because it demonstrates how...

Howdy, This is an ongoing issue, which I think is getting worse, but my wife disagrees. She does most of the vacuuming. There are several areas around the pool where this occurs, mostly in the deep end. This are brownish stains. This is the second year of TFP. I replaced about half of the...

Howdy, I have a kidney shaped pool of approximately 25k gallons. I have a 1 HP AO Smith Century Centurion 230v motor with a Pentair Challenger pump. The filter is a Triton II TR-100 (sand filter) I only have one return line, that being the skimmer. The main drain line has a leak somewhere and...