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Recently my spa wall fittings on my near 20 year old pool started falling apart. Two broke off when I was having some work done. They look like this and don't seem to have threads on them. This is what the socket looks like after the inserts have come out. They seem to be 1.5 inches in...

I specifically have Deuteranopia (red-green colorblindness) and it makes reading pH measurements painful. So instead of struggling with color matching, I thought of a good way to read pH with a color picking app. Any color app that reports colors in HSV (hue, saturation, value) space is ideal...

So today I tested my (perfectly clear) water and got: FC: 6.8 CC: < 0.5 pH: > 8.0 TA: 120 CH: 320 CYA: Just about 30* The pH was obviously concerning, so my further thoughts about it are as follows: For the whole last month my CH was consistently ~350 on my Taylor kit *and* at the pool store...

So, I did my first SLAM as discussed in this thread and I believe it was highly effective. Thanks to many this forum for their advice and guidance on many topics, such as my possible need for doing a SLAM, for getting an FAS/DPD test, and for advice on raising my CYA. I passed my OCLT (lost...

Hi all, after some issues communicating with my chem and basket guy over the last year and a half, I decided to do weekly pool maintenance. No disrespect to the people who have been doing this for years or decades, but I figured I could quickly get up to speed enough to do it myself and then...

Hi all, I spent the last three weeks reading up and devouring as much information as I can about the care of my 14,400 gallon salt water pool, from blogs, YouTube channels, a few books, and then also going back and forth with my own Taylor test kit as well as getting readings from Leslie's...