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We are just looking at opening our pool this year - because my GF has been out of work since last August (anyone need a Senior Software Engineer?) we had been planning on not opening in order to reduce the expense, but the extended family wants us to.... Last year, I was seeing symptoms that...

From pool school I have gotten the following recommended values - FCC - 4-6, shock 24 pH - 7.5-7.8 TA - 60 - 80 (SWG man says 100-120) CH - 250-350 CYA - 70-80 Borates 50 Salt 3000 - 3500 CSI should be between -/+ 0.6 Other than the big difference in TA suggestions between here and the manual...

As in my sig, pool is ~16.5Kgal, concrete / plaster (not sure how to tell the difference, or if it matters...) Sand filter, SWG, both of which are fairly new, and I'm still learning my way around them... Swimmer load is fairly low (Me a few times a week) but I get a lot of plant debris, and an...

Yet another step in my efforts to make our pool as handicapped friendly to maintain as well as "Trouble Free".... Last year I tried to make our pool easier to care for from my wheelchair by upgrading a lot of the equipment - mostly this was very successful, with one noteworthy exception... I...

I have a problem - self induced, sort of, but I finally finished building a replacement pool control box (which I'll post more about eslwhere) and was able to start opening the pool today... Last fall, when closing down, I couldn't find the stopper for the line that went into the line that...

Last night I heard louder than normal noises coming from the pool area, and when I investigated this afternoon, I found that the Polaris booster pump is seriously ill... :cry: With the booster pump off, and the main pump on, I get a drip out the bottom of the pump in the area between the pump...

As I was looking for advice on parts selection in a previous thread, I thought I'd do an update... I ended up getting a Pentair TR60 Clear-Pro tech filter, and a Compupool CPSC 48 SWG from Pool Supply World, which offered the best price of any of the vendors I looked at... I'm quite happy with...

Not sure if this is exactly the right place - parts would also work in the SWG area, and others would be better in the Pumping station, but overall it's a plumbing renovation... Should I split up the question? As I have mentioned in the past, I'm a paraplegic due to a spinal cord injury about...

I posted a few days back about how I'd just done a total rebuild on our Polaris 380, and that it seemed to be working great. Turned out that I'm still having a problem that is leaving me a bit puzzled. :? Frequently when I go out to check the pool, the Polaris seems to be stuck and not moving...

We have a Polaris cleaner in our pool, not sure of the exact model. I thought it was a 360, but it has a booster pump, and it does not have that extra little drive wheel that I see on the pictures of the 280. It doesn't quite match the picture of 380 on the Polaris website, but that may be...

I was quite active here a couple years back, but have had some major life changes that resulted in my not even opening the pool last year. I had a serious accident while taking down a tree, that led to my having a ruptured aorta. The emergency surgery to fix that resulted in the blood supply...

Split off of this topic. JasonLion I agree, I wrote in my own values, not to mention having them automatically figured for me every time by the pool calculator... On another subject, which I'm sure needs to be moved to a different location, but I need some additional advice on rather...

I have a question that comes from my other life as a Mod over on Hearth.com, where we have a lot of folks that want to use their wood boilers to heat their hot tubs, as an alternative to feeding the Overpriced Electric Co... In the hydronic world these days, people use a lot of PEX...

I have noticed that over the month or two that I've been using my TF100 test kit that I'm developing a ring around the Cl Only plastic vial that is used for the FAS / DPD test. It is a cloudiness or frosted look from about the 10ml line, up to around the 20 - 30ml line, where it slowly fades...

Due to all the rain we have had this summer in New England, our in-ground gunnite pool is at or above it's maximum normal water level. Since I don't know what the weather will do in the future however, I'm reluctant to pump any water out of the pool. I don't know of any serious problems that...

Strangeness - I got a notification of a message in a thread that I was following, and when I went to look at it, I get an error message "You are not authorized to read this forum" I tried logging out and back in, same problem.. Actually I think I may have just figured it out - is this the...

I'm a mod on the Hearth.com forums, and I just discovered a new and different form of "link spam" that people had been running on us for a while, thought I'd spread the word on it in case it is being done here as well... For non-experts, "Link Spam" is an effort by the spammers to raise a sites...

I've been doing BBB for a month or so now, and am happy as heck with it... Most all of my numbers have been pretty good, and I'm keeping the CL sort of reasonable (It tends to get down to 1-2 FC before I bump it back up to 4, but I'm staying nice and clear thanks to the Borax...) However...

Not sure if this is the right place, but nothing else seemed to fit, Mod's feel free to move if need be... I am currently using 12% bleach solution in the 5 gallon plastic jugs from the local pool store. I don't mind hauling the jugs around that much, but I am finding it difficult to deal with...

I started up the pool yesterday after sitting all winter - Not sure what the numbers were when I closed, but the test strips I was using seemed to say things were mostly OK. I used an "In-The-Swim" winterizing kit when I closed, except that I have never been able to see much sense in putting...

In the interest of making better plans for my future work with our pool, I'd like to get confirmation of the size of the pool... I had thought it was 16K gallons, but looking at some of our old pool store chemistry reports (from one of those dreaded computer programs) they were saying 17K. I...

Is there any sort of a "primer" on this whole SWG subject - I keep seeing references to them, but am not really clear on what they are / how they work / what they do and so forth... Obviously they make chlorine, but...:?: :? :?: :? :?: :? It might even be worth a sticky? Some of the...

Hello, new user with my first post... Was sent to The PoolForum by another user on Hearth.com (where I'm a moderator) couldn't register :cry: but found the link to this forum there... We have an in-ground gunnite pool, free form, estimated about 16K gallons, using a DE filter. I'm not sure...