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Hello! I started SLAMMING my pool last week. It was pretty green and had some leaves in…I am still working blind to get the leaves out… I got the PH in range before I started to SLAM. I’ve kept the FC at 12 for my CYA which is at 25-30. I have yet to have to backwash. I have a sand filter but...

Hello - Been a rough year getting my pool open. Finally feel I’m on the right track but have been having issues with losing large amounts of chlorine every day despite slamming for almost a week and not seeing any algae in the water/in the pool (still can’t see everything though as water is...

I wasn't sure where to post this, so hope it is okay here. Starting my fourth year following TFP advice and loving it! Went to get everything together as I planned to open my pool this weekend and found that somehow my test tube for my chlorine is broken. Does anyone know where I can buy just...

Hello, Opened my pool last week to a swamp. I got it cleared up pretty well so far, still cloudy, but it's just patience at this point in terms of the filter picking everything up. One thing I am noticing though is that I have what looks like dead algae on the sides. I have scrubbed at it with...

Hi. So, I got sick and the hot tub was neglected for two days since I am the one who normally takes care of it. When I checked it today the FC was 0. I put in enough chlorine to raise it to shock level, but just want to check if there is anything else I need to do. Thanks!

Hi. So, we are trying to get our hot tub up and running for the winter and I decided to use the tfp way as I had a lot of success with it in the pool this summer. I am having some troubles. One of the main issues we always had with our tub while using the pool store chemicals (Baquaspa) is that...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to do the tfp way for my hot tub. I started using it in my pool this summer and it's been working great. So, I'd like to try it with the hot tub, but I must admit after reading the above sticky I was pretty confused. So, any suggestions would be...

Hi all, Found this forum last year but didn't transfer over to this way of treating a pool because my pool was fine. But, after the trouble we've had this year, I remembered this forum and am hoping you can help. So, we ended up with a green mess in early May when we decided to open our pool...

Hi! New here. edit...sorry, my title is wrong, that was supposed to say return NOT keeping pressure! We we opened our pool last week. The pool people actually came and did it for us, as this is our first year to open the pool and we wanted to see what we needed to do. Anyway, several hours...