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Realized a source of the iron I had in my water last year! Seems like something maybe wasn't sealed properly when the liner was replaced a few years ago (prior to me owning the house). I'm guessing that supposedly, I could just remove the screws surrounding the skimmer frame. However, I'm...

Seems the preference around here is to start a new thread rather than bump old ones. Our furnace is ancient and acting wonky, so I think we're putting HVAC at our house on the short list. I have told my wife previously that whenever we replaced it, I wanted to look into this heat recovery unit...

My closing plan involves doing the Ascorbic Acid treatment, then as soon as the iron staining has lifted, dump the water to winter level, theoretically taking like half the iron with it and hopefully diluting it enough in the spring, that I won't have to maintain sequestrant dosages in the...

Can running the chlorine levels at the high end of recommendation risk fading things? Per TFP recommendations, I've kept the chlorine at 8-9 ppm most of the time. My CYA had gotten a touch low (tested at 50 a couple days ago, have added 3.5 lbs so far since then, need to retest) Yesterday I...

I've got what I believe are rust stains in the pool. Last year, there was some noticeable around the skimmer housing, but that was about it and I didn't really worry about it. This year, I put a protective mat under the removable steps and seat I installed, and when I pull them up to clean...

I have one of these: Splash Economical In-Ground Suction Cleaner for Sale and it works(ed) ok enough most of the time. But I noticed that instead of it's usual little "jerks" that cause it to move all over the pool, it is barely juddering and therefore barely moving. I did suck up a towel that...

I'll change the title when I'm able to start the project and will take some build pics... but for now, a teaser pic. This is for a belated (with wife's blessing) Mothers Day present. It'll be used by the pool a bunch.

My 14 year old told me to post this: Is it weird to lick the coping? For the purpose of tasting the salt. What say ye? Lolol

The other day I got curious. I know there are three houses with pools right in a row up the street from me. So I started looking around google earth satellite views to see whose pools were good (couple I can see the main drain) and whose were cloudy and green! I could tell the images were...

Last summer we were given these steps by neighbors who were redoing their liner and pool. The lady said that the chemistry had damaged the paint on the railing, and they'd tossed the other one altogether. (I bet they maintain the pool just how the store recommends, lol.) Anyway, the paint is...

Last night my wife sorta complained that I'd taken on all the pool stuff and she doesn't get to do any of it. One thing she wanted me to try to figure out is if there is some way for both of us to have the Pool Math account on our phones, so she could do the testing sometimes and log it, and...

PH was low which annoyed me (overshot a little with acid) so I turned a return up to make it splash a little. Came home to find this! Worst part is all the leaves and junk that was on the cover, is now in the pool! Oh well.

Was updating things on my profile and my CircuPool SWG model isn't available. They currently have three Universal Models: UL25, UL40, and UL55. UL40 is the only option currently; I went from a UL40 that wore out to a UL55 last fall. This shows up similarly in the Pool Math app.

I keep seeing how we cannot reliably trust the PH drop test when chlorine is over 10 ppm. But, that is close to where I kept my chlorine most of last year due to CYA levels (I slightly overshot it at the beginning of the season). So, the question is, does CYA not affect this number? And/or...

Our pool doesn't have any type of bench, but last year I decided I wanted one! What I used last year was some older plastic shelving that had tabs intended to lock two sets of shelves together. I set them up so that the shelves were only one shelf high, and interlocked 3 or 4 of those in a...

Edit 2: I'm got the filter, and am now working on installing it along with fixing up some of the wonky plumbing choices made by previous owners of the house. That mostly starts here Edit1 : I've decided I don't want to do the variable speed pump right now, but do want to update the...

Seems like this is under "Everything Else" because it is pool related. Feel free to move if necessary. Last year, our son took the Infant Swimming Resource class. Give your child the competence, confidence and skills of aquatic safety with Infant Swimming Resource's Self-Rescue program Due to...

Question based on some comments in the Swimming Reddit forum. I had said that well-maintained water shouldn't ever need to be changed. One person said that trichloramines forming was the reason the water did need to be changed periodically. That there was no other way to get rid of them. I...

When I finally get around to closing the pool for my first time, I have a heavy duty tarp style winter cover to put on it, along with the water tubes and ropes to help keep it from sinking. To that point, I am curious about a couple thoughts on sink-prevention. I have a round tube that was...

I've been planning on following the TFP recommendation to not close the pool until the water gets to below 60 degrees. I think this morning it was right around 68-70 (I failed to log that and don't recall the exact temp.) I was anticipating that I'd probably do it in a couple weeks. I saw...

Our SWG cell finally quit over the weekend, so I stocked up on LC. (All 12.5% labeled.) On Sunday morning, I tested 5.5 of FC and added a gallon (that gallon I had bought in late April. All the rest were produced mid-July). Sunday afternoon and evening I tested 9. By Monday evening, it...

I guess this is somewhat theoretical. But now that I have a new, larger capacity SWG Cell headed my way I wonder... For the purposes of the question, I'm making numbers up. Lets say that I could run the pump for 6 hours with the SWG set at 100% to maintain my chlorine needs. (That's about...

Circupool Universal 40 SWG It is reporting 2300 PPM on the screen, and flashing the low salt light, or even leaving the light continuous which means it thinks that there is too little salt to generate, along with the check cell light and "Slo" on the display which I think means "Salt low." I...

We had a Christmas in July (in August) party today! The idea originally came when, back in early April as we were taking the cover off the pool, my kid randomly started singing Wham's Last Christmas. Things have been really difficult in our family this summer so we didn't plan as much as we'd...

Silas had fun helping add baking soda this morning!

I've thought about this before when taking about things I've learned here, thought about it again while thinking about issues addressed here, but sometimes when I'm talking about how pool store water testing can't be trusted and how they just want to sell you potions, and then more potions to...

Because we have a pool, we've been having my 2.5 year old doing Infant Self Rescue swim lessons. This is the 4th week. The instructor emailed tonight to cancel for everyone tomorrow, because she went to urgent care because she has some kind of itchy bumpy rash. Wife told me that last week she...

I have the TF Pro Salt Kit. The instructions say to run most of the test weekly, but as I was doing this yesterday morning, I started thinking about the frequency. Obviously, things like the Chlorine/Combined Chlorine levels, PH and even Total Alkalinity can change fairly quickly to...

Bought house in December, still figuring out all the pool stuff. One thing that has/had vexed me is this electrical box. Is fed by the circuit panel. I even had a guy out and he couldn't tell me for sure what it was doing. (He was doing a quote for replacing my old stab-lok style panel. As...

Our pool area has a wood fence. Currently, the gate is latched with a spring-loaded latch, and locked with a simple padlock. I'm interested in some kind of push-button combination lock. I think this would be more convenient than the padlock and then I may be less tempted to leave the padlock...