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Not a newbie - lifetime member due to all the great advice here. So, long story short - major pool remodel and added a grotto, waterfall, and waterslide -it's awesome. Problem is that it has white stains all over - i'll attach a pic. Chemistry from TF-100 Day 1: FC: 4 CC: 0 PH: 7.6 TA: 90 CH...

So my pool is quite old (26 yr) and the pop-up system never worked well, we were always taking apart the clocking mechanism (round thing with balls and gears), and still had to vacuum all the time. So we got a hayward ultravac about 12 years ago and never looked back. There is no dedicated port...

Hello, so I have this Emerson ESQ1102 Square Flange Pool and Spa Motor 1 HP. its quite a few years old. I replaced the bearings on it about 4 years ago. It has been working fine since. nice and quiet. This morning, the water in the pool was barely moving, but the pump/motor was on and sounded...

I noticed the other day that my pump was still running a couple hours after the shut-off time. This is the second or third time this has happened over the last couple months (that I have noticed). I went out to inspect my settings and found that the dog had actually tripped the switch all the...

Hello, I have a 1hp emmerson motor that i installed about 2 years ago. It's getting loud and I know the bearings are about to go. I really think the motor should last alot longer than 2 years. Shouldn't it? the model i have is ESQ1102 (C55CXKLM-5003) from amazon: HP 1 SF 1.65 RPM 3450 Voltage...

Hello, My pool is well over 20 years old. I inherited it about 10 years ago and the water was never balanced properly. In fact, until I found this forum, the water was always out of whack. Being that it is a plaster pool, what looks like scaling and/or etching has occurred over time. I'd like to...

My numbers are all right where I want them, but the water is seriously warm. I have an aerator, but I don't want to lower my TA any more than it already is. What can I do? Thanks for any advice!!

I got my slide installed an we currently hook it up to the garden hose from the house. I'd like to install a hose bib in my pool plumbing so we can keep house pressure for the misting system and also so that we are using pool water on the slide. I'm thinking that it should go in-line with the...

Every time I pick up a reagent to put drops, I feel like shaking it. Is this necessary? Is this OK?

I got an older slide from the craiglist, it looks very much like the one in this thread: http://www.troublefreepool.com/post-pics-of-your-repo-rehab-t11800.html Its in pretty good shape except that the water delivery system fittings are cracked. I need to replace them and possibly the copper...

I was thinking about putting in a pool slide for the kids. Problem is, the ones i have seen that seem any good (need water delivery because of heat) run from $500 and up... some way way way up. For me, this is not acceptable, it is a pool slide, it should not be the price of a car! So I...

fc 7.0 ph 7.4 cya 50 ta 110 cc 0 :) from what i understand reading this site, it is a good idea to bump up my fc a couple right before people are going to be swimming if there are a good number of them or if there are a few kids. prevention instead of fixing, right? so my question is, i get a...

So after getting my pool sparkly ;) , I wanted to help out my brother in law. his pool is larger at 23000 gal and is salt water with C generator, pebble tech, and cartridge filters. We were there over the holiday and the pool seemed green to me (but then again i have been looking at my tfp -...

So i have 2 return jets in my pool. They are original to the pool (20 years), the eyeball is gone, and they are quite deteriorated (most likely due to lack of pool water care over the years but is fixed now because of me and tfp). If you touch them, plastic dust and chunks come off. So i went...

My pool has an old quick-clean system (pop-ups), but we don't use it for 2 reasons - 1. it never worked well, 2. we now have an ultra vac that works great. One of the nozzles is missing leaving a big hole in the bottom of the pool, and a couple more are loose and I'm sure they will wind up out...

First post! I have had this pool for 10 years, but am just now learning proper chemistry, so please bear with me :) so I guess I don't really get the fc, cya, shock relationship. According to the chart, my target fc is 6-7 based on my cya. shock level is listed at about 22. Currently, I have...