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    Highest chlorine level safe to swim?

    We were out of town for a week and had someone add chlorine to the pool based on our best guess and not testing. The good news - the pool isn't green. However, the FC is high at 12, CC 0, CYA is 40. We are supposed to have people over to swim today. The FC is below slam level, so is it safe...
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    SLAM with broken pipe/can't run filter - how to add CYA

    We are new pool owners. We were starting the SLAM process to our unmaintained pool when the return pipe from our filter started leaking. We've had to turn the filter off until we get it repaired. I'm not sure how long that will take since we will need to remove concrete from the deck to fix it...
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    New to us pool full of algae

    Hi. We just purchased a home with a pool that was not maintained and is currently very green. We put some type of chemicals (a trichlor and something before that) from Leslie's for the last 2 days after we took a sample there, but then my friend told me about TFP. I've read the SLAM article...