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I’ve been experimenting with my variable speed pump (just had a single speed previously and ran it 24hrs). I’m seeing that at lower speeds (less than 2k rpm) a rather large air bubble will form in the pump basket lid. It basically fills the dome of the lid. The bubble disappears when I...

I was at Leslie’s returning a giant bag of DE I didn’t need (turns out I just needed a small bag of patience). While the employee struggled to look up my account, I overheard the other employee explaining a customer’s test results. Evidently this person’s water was “still cloudy” after...

Ok, quick recap before I start… Opened early April to swamp. Cleared up using slam and passed the criteria within about 5 days. Was still dealing with cloudiness which I was certain was dirt due to new build. Used a 3/4 dose of clarifier and far improved (I know it’s a no no). Have had a...

I have some bags of shock from the pool company. I figured it can’t hurt to use them. I don’t want to sprinkle in front of the return and then have to frantically sweep if they reach the bottom. Can I dissolve them in a skimmer sock? I’ve only ever use liquid chlorine… except my first summer...

My neighbor has 4 trees that have started dropping helicopter seeds that blow directly into my new pool :cautious: Any idea what species of tree this is? How long they drop seeds for? Most importantly any tips for eradicating them from the pool skimmers? They float, so when I lift the basket (I...

Happy Spring! I’m a returning pool owner. I’ll try to make it short and sweet. I just want to make sure I’m on the right track because it’s been about 4 years. New build in ground pool finished build and closed right away before Thanksgiving. Before closing a put in enough cya to raise to 17...

Hello! Liner and water are going in my new vinyl liner inground today. I want to balance my chemicals best possible before closing asap as it is getting colder here. I haven’t set up water in a new pool in about a decade so can someone list out stepwise what is most important? I’m thibking 1...

Hello all! I used to have a partially in ground radiant pool. We moved a couple years ago and are currently building an in ground. I got home from work today and saw the plumbing all connected and this thing. No idea what this is. I tried looking at the website but don’t really understand. This...

Hello all! I’m back after moving and leaving my beloved pool behind 2.5 years ago. We’re looking at installing an inground this time. Can I ask, how long did you finance your inground pool? Thanks in advance!

Hello, I'm planning to put in a new pool this summer, however I'm hesitant due to the Spotted Lanternfly issue we have here in PA. Summer of '21 I saw about 5 lanterflies. Last summer ('22) there were tens of thousands in my yard and on my trees. I'm wandering how much worse it will be this...

Hello everyone, hope you're all healthy and well during this crazy time. I live in Southern PA and usually open around late April. For what it's worth I have a radiant pool, built into a hill, with a winter cover that works not unlike a tupperware container. Every year so far upon opening, the...

Hello all, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on something I've found/been finding in my pool. A couple days ago I found what I believed to be raccoon poop in my pool. You can read my previous post here: https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/raccoon-poop-really-scared.190888/ In short...

Hello everyone, Several years ago I found what I assumed to be a raccoon poop in the pool. I skimmed it out and shocked the pool and didn’t really worry about it. Just now I got in the pool and was walking around vacuuming with a pool blaster (battery operated vacuum with its own filter bag)...

Quick question - Can I perform an OCLT with the solar cover on? Thanks! Lauren

Hi everyone, I've been using the TFP method for about 4 or 5 years now and have not had an issue since converting. But now, I have a FC loss mystery and I suddenly feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. Going to give a little back story in case it somehow plays a part... About a month ago I...

Hi everyone! Starting over the last couple days, there are massive amounts of rather large sized bird poop all over the edge of my pool and getting into the water. I vacuumed just yesterday evening, and when I got home from work today there must be 30 more on the bottom I could count, not to...

Hi all - happy summer! We have very, very hard well water. Last summer, our second summer with the pool, I started noticing iron stains. At first I thought it was dirt that just would not vacuum up... and then I did the vitamin C test. It was like using a magic eraser! Turns out, the entire...

Hi all... The pool builder is here right this moment fixing an issue with my pool. I don't have time to explain in full detail because time is of the essence. Basically, the pool needed to be drained to roughly 6" so a crevice that formed under the liner could be repaired. Afterward, a water...

Hello all, The beginning of this season we noticed a crevice that had formed over winter under the liner on one side of the pool. It's about 3-4" deep, 2-3" wide and runs about 25 feet along the length of the pool. My pool builder came out early this season to look and said its either from...

Hi all- I'm about to leave my pool for 8 days for the first time since I've had it. My in-laws are stopping by every evening to care for my cats and parrots so I do have them to add bleach. Here is my plan - please advise if you think this is a good plan or if I need to change it. First, my...

Hello all, Starting this year (second summer with the new pool and new equipment), when turning the pump off (in order to switch to backwash, pump to waste, etc), the pump will not immediately come back on. When I flip the switch, it makes a humming noise. It is not until after I hear a...

I'm super clumsy... not gonna lie. Just about every time I've added bleach to my pool, I've bleached whatever clothes I'm wearing. A gallon of 12.5% liquid chlorine spilled in my trunk and just about ruined the car, as well as everything I was wearing and my skin. I got a medical grade...

This probably sounds ridiculous but I'm going to ask anyway... Do I HAVE to vacuum? The nearest leafed trees from my pool are about 600 feet away. I don't think there has ever been a leaf or a twig in the pool. Occasionally tiny clusters of dirt accumulate, but I have to look very hard for...

This is my second summer with my pool. My first year I was too afraid to try the TFPC method because I understood nothing about water chemistry and didn't know what I was doing. This year I took the plunge and purchased a Taylor test kit and followed the advice of everyone on this forum. I...

Hi all. I have an 18x32 Oval semi-inground pool (built into a hill... One side is level with the ground, other side is completely above). It was installe less than a year ago, so still under warranty. I few days ago we discovered a "channel" that has formed, presumably over winter, in the...

Can anyone help solve this enigma? Five days ago my chlorine results were FC 3 CC 1.5 I was instructed by the pool store to shock... so I did. Yesterday my results were FC 6.2 CC 1.4 I decided to use the TFP method and my new Taylor test kit to handle it myself. I did that math to bring my...

I was unfortunate enough to have an entire gallon of liquid chlorine spill in the trunk of my car. I have one of those plastic mats, which caught the majority of it, however some splashed up on the sides of the carpeting in trunk. I absorbed as much as I could with some old towels, then...

Hi all- I'm a newbie pool owner. This was my first summer and I guess I had some great beginners' luck because I had no problems all season...until now. One week before I'm scheduled to have the pool closed. I noticed yesterday that all white fixtures below the water were turning brown; the...

After four years of being told it wasn't possible to put a pool on my hill (not without TWO $8,000 retaining walls)... I finally discovered Radiant pools. There aren't many photos out there on the internet of pools being built into hills so I would like to share mine. It was just put in two...

I'm new to the pool thing. My 16x32' Radiant was just installed 2 weeks ago so there is much for me to learn. Our first week with the pool, we didn't have electricity to it, so the pump was off. During that time, a large accumulation of dirt settled on the bottom (as the pool is buried on one...