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I have really been struggling the last few days. I had gotten our water so clear and sparkly...but woke up the other morning to some slightly cloudy water. Afraid of a repeat of earlier this season, I started shocking. Raised the CL up to around 20 for a few days, no change in water. Raised it...

I am just hitting you guys right and left with the plumbing questions this week. :oops: I have a 1.5 hp pump with 200 lb. sand filter. My pump doesn't have trouble keeping prime and I haven't noticed anything unusual...well, anything that I think is unusual. I recently got a new psi gauge...

I was wondering if anyone was bored this afternoon and might be able to help me decipher my pool plumbing. I forgot to take a picture this morning, so I drew this pretty lame diagram...but you get the point. I think that the first valve controls my french drain that is installed. The second...

Give it to me straight. It's brown and puffs away when you touch it. It forms a perfect little ring all the way around our round pool. I won't have any in the morning and it will be there in the afternoon. I did go from swamp thing to swimming pool, but I tested my water last night and had FC7...

We are seriously considering adding a pool house or some type of changing area to our backyard this year! If anyone would be willing to share about their "pool house" I would greatly appreciate it. Maybe a picture and the details on what size it is, did you build it yourself, are there things...

After a true battle of the titans, it appears that I am finally beating back the algae beast that I allowed to grow in my backyard! While brushing this morning at 6 a.m. and admiring the increased clarity in my water, I started thinking. Pool Owner Patience isn't what I thought it was. As a...

I apologize on the front end if this is posted in the wrong place. I have a question about copper. I went to the pool store for testing today and my water tested 1.5ppm of copper!!!! :shock: I didn't have ANY trouble with copper last year that I know of. What are the usual causes for an...

Hi guys! :wave: Hope everyone is having a nice almost-Summer so far! I think I might have done something foolish. In my quest to get our pool opened as quickly as possible (think swamp), I tested my ph and then began adding hypochlor (48% from Walmart left over from last summer) as suggested...

I thought that what I had were mineral stains, because after placing a puck on them, they didn't budge. But now I'm starting to wonder because they have gotten a TAD lighter since I increased my chlorine level. The previous owners didn't cover the pool during the winter and it was a MESS this...

I'm a little embarrassed to be posting these considering some of the REALLY nice pools that I have seen here. Please break it to me slowly. :lol: When we bought our house this spring, there had been NOTHING really done with the landscaping in the backyard since the pool was installed. Just a...

This is so bad...but I had SUCH a good time yesterday at the pool store!!! The guy that runs the store where they built our pool is so snotty. I had been avoiding them for over a month (thanks to BBB) and had to go in to get a new psi gauge. He got this big smirk on his face and asked me how...

I'm not sure where to put this, since it's about equipment, but I am also just getting started. :lol: Our pump lost its prime, I'm not really sure how, but it did. When we reprimed it and turned it back on this morning....some really nasty cloudy water came out for about a minute and then...

Does anyone know if they make a removable "beach" step? I have a four year old that loves the pool, but is content with sitting on the pool steps the whole time blocking the exit/entrance for everyone else. A beach type step would be perfect for her, but we have a vinyl pool and I can't find...

Hi guys! We recently purchased a new home with a pool, so now I'm a newbie pool wrangler. We have a large buried Doughboy pool Intrigue....25,000+ with two pool lights and two skimmers. We are currently struggling with adding some landscaping and trying to find someone to install a security...

I got my TF-100 today (insanely fast shipping Dave!) This is my first test so I could have screwed up: ph: 7.3 FC: 3.5 CC= no color change, 0.0? TC= 3.5 TA= 160 CYA= 20 CH= 300 My water is a little cloudy and isn't as "sparkly" as it was before. I backwashed my filter and it looked pretty...

I have read for over 45 minutes this morning but can't find my exact answer. I got the following read from the pool store yesterday (no test kit yet): FC 0.0 TC 0.1 CC 0.1 pH 7.7 Alkalinity (w/stabilizer correction???) 80ppm Cyanuric Acid 35ppm I added the amount of chlorine, as indicated on...

Is there anyway to go ahead and use paypal to buy a lifetime membership now? With the quirky graphics going on right now, the link in the "Become a TFP Supporter" thread doesn't work right now. Thanks so much. Sorry to be a pain.

We just purchased a buried doughboy pool with the Baquacil system. Because the liner needs to be replaced, our pool is currently completely drained. I don't know too much about the pool yet, other than we have a huge sand filter for it (will try to include pictures of everything later from...