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  1. Bender

    3 week vacation - can I use a puck or will it be a disaster?

    Been doing BBB for several years, zero problems, no SLAM since the first one when we bought the house. Never used a puck. CYA is a little below 30 right now. Family member comes over to check the pool when we go on vacation. We're going on a longer vacation than usual (3 weeks) and I'd like to...
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    Can't keep pH down, losing a lot of FC, bubbles from the return, so confused!

    Summary: new (to me) pool, then did a drain, refill, SLAM (with success), here's where we are now: 7/21 @ 19:56, ambient: 98°f; water: 86°f: pH: 7.5 (after adding ~32oz 14.5% MA an hour ago) FC: 4 CC: 0 TA: 120 CH: 275 CYA: 35 (!) My CYA has been holding at 50, I am shocked to see 35. I can't...
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    Did a drain/refill, now doing a SLAM, sanity check requested

    I posted a while ago when I was just getting started. I just performed a drain and refill, tweaked things a bit (added acid to lower pH, added CYA to get to an appropriate level) and here's where we were after that: 6/7 14:32 105°f FC 2 CC 0 PH 7.2 TA 130 CH 300 CYA 35 I started the SLAM...
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    Starting from scratch, need some advice

    Purchased a home in Phoenix constructed in 1985. This is my first pool and I don't know much about pools in general or the one at this house - math using the kurtzwater.com volume calculator and a tape measure has me thinking it's about 14,000 gallons. It's appears to have a Hayward Pro-Grid...