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Yesterday, my 12-year old Waterway 60 sf DE filter drain plug was leaking pretty bad; with the filter off, I tightened it just a bit and must've cracked the housing for the drain plug; I've tried a hose clamp to provide some rigidity, but under pressure it's spurting water like a geyser. So...

Good morning. I've had the pool covered and running 5 hours per day for the last month. While I have been waiting for the water to drop below 60 degrees in order to close the FC level has been really consistent...was going down about 0.5 every 3-4 days while the water was warmer. During the...

The pool has been on the Clorox bleach only diet for about 5 weeks. It looked great. My CH was at 225 and I want to get it up to 300/350 range. Since I have several left over pounds of Calcium Hypochlorite 57.8% I thought I would just use that for a few days instead of Clorox to treat the...

I started a SLAM on 07/08 not because I could see algae but because I kept losing FC and couldn't see why. I have passed OCLT a few times only to fail it the next day when I tried to get 2 days in a row. This morning my drop was 0.5 as I tested at 20 FC last night (10 pm) and was at 19.5 (6...

Need suggestions please. I was taking apart 60sf DE filter and cleaning today...trying to finish a slam and trying to figure out why I am still losing FC. So I figured I'd backwash the filter and then take it apart to clean and remove any dead stuff that was in there that the backwash didn't...

Based upon what I've read thus far, it appears that the 9+ years of using chlorine sticks has built up a residual of CYA in my pool that is not allowing me to get to a chlorine level that I can measure....other than zero. I've ordered a new test kit (TF-100) but is there anything that can be...