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We moved into this house three summers ago now, pool is now 5 years old, but even the first summer we were here we'd noted the pool liner was pulling out along the edges in a few areas (four different places). It's largely stable over the time we've been here but I never thought to consider if...

We have high iron content in our well water. Currently, when needing to add water to the pool, I run a hose from a sink in the garage that is post-reverse-osmosis system and filters out the rust but we're having irrigation installed and putting in a treatment system to remove the rust from the...

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...

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...

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...

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!