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My PB closed my pool for me. We blew out the lines and filled with antifreeze. He put plugs in the skimmers and I then installed gizmos. This was 2 weeks ago. I just opened both skimmers and now we have about an inch or so of water in each skimmer. It hasn’t rained a bit so I’m guessing the...

i had a San Juan fiberglass pool installed this year. I’ve been testing and maintaining myself. I had a pool 25 years ago and remember the horrors of the pool store. I plan on never going into the pool store. My concern is that if there is ever an issue with my shell or other equipment, will the...

So I started my first SLAM today. I also have have two cases of cal Hypo “shock” that my PB left me. My calcium is currently only about 200 ppm. Any issue with me alternating the cal hypo shock with liquid chlorine? I really just want to get rid of the cal hypo safely. I’m not a big fan of it...

I have a question about this comment on scrub the skimmer. We opened our pool on 6/9 after construction was done. There have been times when I’ve thought we’ve had algae, but we always pass the OCLT and our water is crystal clear. Except my skimmers are filthy. I tried to shop vac them out and...

We have an Aquamatic Pool cover. How far should the pool be opened? I generally like the guide bar to stop right on top of the fiberglass. Someone told me that I should open it all the way into the vault. Doesn’t anyone here have any thoughts?

So I’ve been trying to have my kids learn how to test the pool. We got a little water in my the Fas-dpd powder and it kind of bricked up on us. We can kind of scrape it off, but now we always test around 2.5 chlorine instead of usual 5.0. Comparator block is deep yellow like a max 5.0. This...

I opened my new pool on 6/10 and gradually added enough CYA to get to 60 ppm via pool math. I tested and it looked pretty good to me to being at sixty. I tested today and I could swear it’s closer to 40 than it is 50. Admittedly, I have a hard time with this test more than the others. Do I trust...

Every morning I test my pool and I’m at a 4.5-5.0 ppm FC. My nephews’s aged 3 and 12 come over and with my kids aged 12 and 14. When I test after I’m at 2.5. I always test neathive for chloramines but in the evening the water burns my eyes. In the mornings it’s fine, but in the evenings it’s...

I have a 15k gallon fiberglass pool with two skimmers and two returns. How should I optimize the water flow? The returns are directly under the skimmers. I currently have then pointed downward. I also have two drains in the side wall below the skimmers (wasn’t my idea) that are in between the...

So I have two goals for my Pool. One is to never open up my manual vacuum out of its original packaging. The next is to never go into the pool store. My fiberglass pool has a calcium level of about 100. Where is the best place outside of a pool store to buy calcium chloride?

My CYA is about 50 and I’m gradually raising it up. We had people over yesterday afternoon and now my FC has dropped to 2.5. The pool math app is telling me to run my swg at 2% and run it for 100 hours to get back to 3.5 ppm. The app has my swg correct as a Jandy aquapure 1400 and my Pool size...

My FG SWG pool has an auto cover and my current CYA level is about 50 ppm. Should I still shoot for 70 CYA with a cover and mostly shade after 4:00 pm? Pool is mostly covered except for when we are swimming. I e been gradually raising CYA over the last few weeks, but I now I’m thinking of...

If I run my pump at 1300 rpm’s my swg runs and my heater works. I can even run it at 1200 and it all works, but I just kicked it up 100 rpm’s to be sure. At that speed my cartridge barely reads 5 psi and that might be generous. Is there a minimum psi on the filter I should be shooting for? It’s...

So today was supposed to be the day. We did the final hookup on electrical and flipped the switch for the lights and the bubblers came on and the nicheless wall lights nada. Pool builder says easy to fix. Does anybody know how you do this? Any resources? Will we have to lower the water? I have...

We are installing a Aquamatic auto cover and the flex on the lid worries me a little. Does anyone has one, have any issues walking on it?

I really wish I had spent more time here at the start of my build rather than when we were in the middle of it. Anyways, I have a 15,000 gallon fiberglass pool going in. We’re going to hook up the equipment this week. We are going with a Jandy 340 sq foot cartilage filter rated to up to 45,000...

So if everything holds up weather wise, we’ll finish our fiberglass install next week. Most likely though I think, we will finish by the 10th. The shell has had water in it for about a month. So it’s full of pollen and I think now it’s a full blown algae bloom. How long do you think it would...

Pool builder has finished backfilling pool and the one side is line straight but the other side is off by about a half inch in the middle. I They admitted when they lifted it it, they didn’t have the right sized bracing in it at first and then raced to fix it. PB owner is like yeah we need to...

Our pool is fiberglass pool is 16x42 and we’re planning on having ten feet of brushed concrete around the deck coping except the deep end side which will be 5 feet. My wife is now starting to think that’s too much and it’s going to be a concrete jungle. Too her point we are also putting in a...

I live just below the high point on a mountain. We have an incredible amount of ground water and run off. The fiberglass pool is in the ground and we have a dewatering system but haven’t put the French drains in yet that will go around the pool area. Even with all the drains I’m worried about...

Our fiberglass shell was set and backfilled earlier this week. Coping should be done next week and electric hopefully the week after. The water is already green from pollen. Anyone think I should shock it and throw a submersible pump in there to move the water around and try to keep it a bit...

My builder tells me that we can have just one main drain if we have two skimmers. Is this correct?