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I have used this forum and the BBB method for many years in my Plainfield Illinois home with never a problem. We moved to a Florida home with and IG pool in August of 2017. The 1-1/4HP pump went out during the first year and was replaced under the home warranty. They put in a 2.2HP pump. After...

We just moved from Ill-annoy to Florida and the house we bought has swg pool. All of our belongings were still in boxes so I took water sample to pinch-a-penny. chlorine was 0, salt was 2100, PH 7.8, cya 0, i forget what the hardness was but i added 8lbs of increaser and it brought it into...

My Chlorine level is at 5ppm using the tf100 test kit. I had 2 pucks in the inline feeder but they have been gone for 5 days now. I am using the Nature2 cartridge because it came with the pool but will switch to BBB next season. PH is 7.6 T/A is 150 and CYA is 40. The water is crystal clear but...

I opened my 15x30x54" pool last week. The water was clear and I let the pump run for 24hrs. Then I used my new TF-100 and here are the readings. On 5/4/09 FC-2 CC-0 TC-2 pH-7.8 T/A-310 CH-260 CYA-30 I added 2 Gal of bleach to shock it, FC 12ppm On 5/5/09 FC-5.5 CC-0 TC-5.5 pH-7.8 T/A-290 CYA-30...

Hello everyone. I have been reading the forums since Aug 08 and I am a little confused about how to best maintain our pool. I grew up with above and in ground pools and can only remember using Chlorine sticks and shock. I don't recall any problems although we never tested for CYA. We had an...