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A question for my fellow desert rats, what do you use for calcium chloride in a place where snow is a tad scarce in order to increase calcium hardness? I haven't seen something like dowflake which is mostly all calcium chloride, which seems to be preferred reading some old posts, at homedepot or...

I'm about 4 or so weeks into using a good test kit and my chlorine consumption seems higher then I would expect. The pool and spa have a bubble cover but we still use the attached spa once or twice a week. I'm testing every 3 days and over the course of a week the FC will fall from about 6.5 to...

I'm still in the first few months of owning and maintaining a pool. I just got the TFPRO kit and after about an hour of reading everything 3 times to double check, I am pretty confident in my results. The levels seem pretty healthy, the water clear; but I'm starting to see these deposits just...

So my inner Engineer couldn't not do some testing with my pump to determine flow and power usage based on speed. I plotted it and calculated the most cost effective speed to run based on energy costs to turn over the entire pool. Please see attached. Is there any reason to not run for 7-8 hours...

Hello there! I'm Patrick, we just finished building our first pool in October in Phoenix. It is 18k gallons with a spa. I've taken it on myself to learn everything I can to keep the pool clean and sparkling not only for the cost savings but it is honestly oddly fun. I have to get it right, my...