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Hey all! I’ve been reading through various other threads and I have a theory but want some input before moving on. My friends have an inground, vinyl lined pool. They don’t know exact volume but the estimate is 40,000 gallons. (It’s a little bigger than mine which is 35,500). Anyway they’ve...

I posted a week or two ago about some staining upon opening of the pool. Did a SLAM, got the pool gorgeously clean, lowered chlorine, added polyquat, did a big AA treatment and followed up with Jacks Blue Magic. It was awesome to watch it get clearer literally by the minute. Things looked...

I posted the other day about which to do first - SLAM/balance or treat metals through the AA process. Got advice to balance first so I got out my test kit to see where things stand. 1. Let me start by saying I KNOW I MESSED UP. We did not cover our pool this winter - kept it open and pumps...

We need to balance the pool for the season (just opened it) and also have metal stains on the steps. I know how to SLAM and I've read the AA treatment. I know that raising the chlorine will just make the staining worse - so do I treat the stains and then slowly slam (is that even possible?) or...

Okay - I feel like I know the answer to this but I just had to ask - should I be testing calcium hardness for my vinyl liner pool? I have an inground, 35K gallon, grecian shape, vinyl pool....live in central Arkansas. Our current liner is probably 10-12 years old....it is getting quite faded...

This is probably going to be long but I don't know how to tell a short story. :oops: Backstory - we have a BBB pool. It's fantastic. Our friends have a pool too. They got fed up with terrible pool service and asked us to help them take control this year. It was incredibly rewarding to see...

So my friends got to enjoy their sparkly pool for approximately 10 seconds before things got ugly. At the end of my last post (see "Converted friend to BBB - now fighting metal stains") I posted a picture of some sludge that was in the pool the day after adding sequestrant. My first thought...

We have been very happy with our BBB treated pool. Our friends have been "pool stored" over and over again over the years. :rant: This year, they finally got fed up and fired the pool store and asked us to help them with the pool. I wish I had pictures to show but in less than a week we...

Need advice... Second summer as a pool owner. We found out about the BBB method about halfway thru last summer and by that point the CYA was already in the 90s. Using the pool calculator and a complete test kit we had the pool sparkling all summer...even with the high chlorine demand...