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The water in St. Louis County, Missouri ranges from 9.7 to 10 according to the water company, and it measures off the scale with my basic Taylor test kit. When I opened our pool just after Memorial Day, I found out that our heater was shot (bad sensors; repair cost too high and repair...

I've been having trouble keeping my chlorine up, and I treated with ascorbic acid earlier this week because of a stain on the liner (my liner is blue and it looked green; so I'm guessing iron, but I don't know where it comes from. I'm not on well water; I first got the stain last year...). My...

My CYA according to a water test at a pool store was 30; so I added to gallons of liquid CYA. This was because I was out of Reagent. The pool calculator said I needed about 180oz. I added 2 gallons. I bought some blue devil reagent off of Amazon. When I tested I got 30 again. Are there different...

A lot of rain and extenuating circumstances have caused me to just now be opening my pool. My salt is down to about 2000 with the dropper test kit. Chlorine is virtually nonexistent (nothing on either the quick test or the granule test). Should I just add salt and kick the SWG to its highest...

:confused:I have a 1 HP Challenger PAC-FAB motor. It came with the house; so it likely at least ten years old. There is a timer for the unit, but it didn't have any of the pegs to set for on and off; so I have always run it constantly during the swim season (we've been here for about eight...

I had a pool company open my pool this past Wednesday. They fished the leaves off of the cover, removed the cover, added some algacide and chlorine, and the following day hooked up my SWG and told me to add 4 bags of salt after the filter had run 24 hours and been backwashed. I did that and my...

My pool company closed our pool, lowered the water a bit below the skimmers, and I put an automatic pool pump on the cover. This is just a tarp type cover with water weights around the pool to hold it in place. It may just be me, but I think that the water level is lower than when the pool was...

I've been taking care of my pool this Summer thanks to this forum. I am going to have a pool company close the pool for me, though. My pool currently uses a tarp cover with water bags. I had a some questions for maintenance after the pool is closed: * I understand the need to keep water off...

My current readings are: FC: 4 TA: 50-60 (it starts turning red at 5 drops, but the 6th drop makes it dark) CYA 70 PH: somewhere between 7.9 and 8.1 as the test kit doesn't have any gradations between 7.8 and 8.2... SALT: 3460 (Pentair says 3400 is ideal...; so I'll be adding 40 lbs to get it...

Hello, My thanks to everyone that has helped me out so far. I had an unfortunate water loss last night. I had backwashed my filter and then put it back to run. Unbeknownst to me, the lever didn't quite settle in the notch to run. When I got up this morning, I was down at least a...

We received our TF-100 test kit yesterday, and did our first test today. Here are the results: FC: 10 CC: .5 TA: 80 CYA: 21 I have to say that the CYA is a bit subjective as it came to just under the 20 line on the vial. I have a SWCG pool with a vinyl liner. It is about 30,000...