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    The CYA/chlorine chart link seems to have been lost?

    My apologies if this has been explained somewhere but it seems that the CYA/chlorine chart has been... misplaced... on TFP. There is an old post that embeds the chart in a response but when one searches the site and visits the links that say they are leading to the chart, it lands on "free...
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    Polyfill in skimmer - how do you get it out without losing all that captured iron?

    I've had good success using polyfill in the skimmer to grab some iron in my pool water (I'll spare you the saga). However, getting it out of the skimmer, I feel like I'm losing half of what's been captured in the poly when I pull it out. Anyone have any clever tricks to help with that? I've read...
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    Buckin' backwash hose

    I've tried searching some and not finding an answer (and maybe I don't know how to search correctly so take it easy on me). When I backwash, my hose (a thin blue rubber flexible type) flies around like a bucking Bronco spraying water everywhere. I've tried to pin it down some with paving...
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    Hey there! From NE Indiana

    Just bought a house with existing IG pool and learning how to do things right! Glad to have found TFP - just my kind of thing. Teach me the "why" and I can run with it!