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Last season we battled metal staining in our pool. This year it’s the same thing. Vitamin C works to lift the stain and then I add sequestrant but a week later the staining starts to reoccur. I know we have high levels of phosphates from adding multiple bottles of sequestrants. The pool store...

We’ve struggled this summer with metals in our pool. We had to add water from our well until we found a leak. But now we have metal staining on our white fiberglass pool. I’ve used Ascorbic acid to clean it up and then Pro Team metal magic. It still reoccurs every few weeks and then I repeat the...

We’ve always had help closing our pool but this year I am feeling fairly confident in doing it ourselves. My one area of concern is the main drain/skimmer. We have one main drain and one skimmer and they are plumbed together so I only have one shut off valve. What steps should I follow to make...

I made a stupid mistake while backwashing and ended up with some DE on the bottom of the pool. Of course it’s the night before my daughters birthday pool party. 🤦‍♀️😩. Now the water is slightly cloudy. I’m running the automatic vacuum because it’s dark here now and I plan on manually vacuuming...

I’ll try to keep my pool season story brief but some back story is needed. We had some copper in our pool so the pool store gave us metal out which worked great for the copper but put our phosphates at 2,500. About mid summer we had a leak and until we got it fixed we had to add water from our...

I have a call in to a local pool company to come pressure test the lines but I’m about at my whits end trying to find a leak! We have a 17 year old fiberglass pool. We have done the bucket test. The bucket loses about 1/4” a day and our pool is losing 3/4” to 1” a day. So I’m fairly confident we...

we had a dip if FC which caused a bloom of algae. We have that taken care of and water rebalanced. My question is, when is it safe to put the solar cover back on the pool. It’s been on a reel for 24 hours. Should we clean it before putting it back on the pool? Will algae still live on the cover...

We went on vacation and after about 6 days away the person taking care of our pool called to say the water was below the skimmer. This would have been about 4-5 inches of water loss in 6 days. Conditions have been very hot and humid. When we got home I added enough water to bring it back above...