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When opening my pool this year I noticed that the water seems to be drying out my skin must faster than I remember. Just from putting my hands in to scrub the water line I've got to use lotion after. I want to add a little salt to soften things up but not sure how much. My CYA is super low...

I need some help with my Hayward Chlorinator for while I'm on vacation. I've never used it and have always only added bleach daily since I've owned the pool. The pump is set on a timer for twice daily for 2 hours. The chlorinator has a "setting" 1-2-3-4... how do I know what number to put it...

Pool is open and looking pretty good so far. This is my third year and I've done a SLAM at the start of each year. Of course I'm starting to question myself now on two things I do... 1 - For my CYA level I'm supposed to take the CL up to 10. But I've been taking it to 12 so that it never drops...

We've got these 3 stains on the bottom of our liner which look like a very large alan wrench was left in the pool for a while. This is our second summer in our new-to-us pool. We've only ever used the TFP method to take care of our sparkling oasis with never any problems. The previous owner...

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Thanks to you I am now a total pool snob. I love my clear water. We often have upwards of 10 kids in the pool at a time and on super sunny days the sunscreen seems to melt right off them and cloud up the water. Of course, nobody besides me notices this - they all say it is still clear and fine...

We have a Hayward H series pool heater. Our pool is new to us last year and we were told the heater was one year old last year (so now two years old). It didn't work at all last year, we kept getting a IF error. So my husband has been working on it, figured it was a blockage and cleared out...

Thank you everyone for all of the invaluable information on this site. Thanks to you I was able to e comfortable maintaining my new-to-me pool and am now trying to open it using this method for the first time ever. We are starting the year with a handful of small issues. The most puzzling to me...

This is our first time closing our new-to-us pool. My bad, I did not order the polyquat stuff online before now. And here we are with cold weather and I need to get the pool closed. I am going to stop by the pool store this afternoon for some polyquat but I already called and they only have...

Will be closing our in ground pool this week for the first time (while owned by us). This past spring we found the solar cover in the bushes, half buried in the dirt. I don't think that is a good storage option. We have a safety mesh cover but I was wondering if it would hurt anything if I...

First off, thank you so much for everything here! We made it through our very first season with no issues thanks to everyone here. But now for the dreaded closing... I've read and read the pool closing thread and just have a few questions. I've been following TFP all summer on our pool and...

This isn't about my pool so disregard my signature on this one... We used to live in a subdivision with a large, cement, inground pool. I'm pretty sure it was plaster. Through the years the bottom just kept getting more and more rough. To the point that the kids feet would bleed if they...

We figured out that our pool is probably about 14 years old. We have to assume the liner is original. There are no leaks or tears. However, there is some severe discoloration on the bottom of the pool. In one corner it looks like a plume with no pattern (and it feels different on your feet)...

I have a vinyl liner but have very high CYA. I don't have any issues with well water or water table. I've read and read that my option to lower CYA is to drain and refill. I don't think I can really drain 75% of my water because I think that's bad for the liner. So I've planned to do a 25% drain...

I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find the answer. Can you swim during a SLAM? My pool is clear but I am getting "stuff" on the bottom every morning. I highly suspect algae and not sand or dirt. After reading a bunch of other threads I know I need to get in there and scrub the...

Just wondering how you really are supposed to measure your water for testing. Not the amount of water in the pool, but the amount of water that will go in the tube in the test kit. I have been dipping the test kit in the pool, at least up to my elbow, and then dumping out any excess water...

We are in Michigan and it hasn't been terribly hot here. But the water temp is only hanging around 70. It seems if I have 3-4 days that are really sunny and I leave the cover on the pool I can get it up to 72. But if not it will drop to around 66-68. I want to go swimming! What can I do to...

Hi there, my name is Sandy and we just moved into a house with an in ground vinyl pool. (Hopefully my signature show the correct details.) Thank you you for everything I've read so far. I have a lot of question that have probably been asked before so bear with me please. Looking forward to...