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    Increasing CYA

    Greetings All, Just finished a Pebble Tec remodel on the pool, and after the refill (city water) I'm looking at the following numbers: FC: 3 / PH 7.5 / TA: 90 / CYA: not registering. CYA before the remodel was always relatively high (80-90), so I'm in uncharted waters - pun intended - here. I...
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    Pool Upgrade

    Greetings and happy holidays to all! I am planning on getting my pool resurfaced /painted this winter, and was wondering if anyone knew of a good contractor (orthree) working in the Tampa, Florida area? Thanks in advance for the help!
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    What no one told me about slamming

    Started slamming my pool last Friday evening, and this morning - day eight - I had a 0 OCLT and a 0 CC. So, no one told me before I started that a sparkling clear pool would allow me to see every speck on the bottom of the pool...lol...and after taking it from cloudy and kind of green water to...
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    Pool surface

    I'm on day four of my first SLAM, and the water is slowly but surely clearing. Clear water always lets you see what you couldn't before, so... When I first bought this house (and pool) about three years ago, I asked the pool service guy whether I needed to think about replastering the pool -...
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    Adjusting suction...

    I recently decided that rather than continue to pay a poolguy to service my pool, I would take the time to read up on and understand whatwas actually going on in that mysterious container of green-blue water in mybackyard. Therefore, after reading quitea bit around the forum, I bought a test...
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    Newb questions on pool surfaces and circulation

    FYI...I split this post into two sections and reposted them to the more appropriate sub-forums. I recently decided that rather than continue to pay a poolguy to service my pool, I would take the time to read up on and understand whatwas actually going on in that mysterious container of...
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    System psi?

    Greetings all, Spent the last week replacing this and that on the pool and just received a new psi gauge to replace the old one - cracked and unreadable - on my Hayward Star Clear Plus C900 cartridge filter. After replacing the gauge, I restarted the pump, bled out the air, checked for leaks...
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    FC Testing Question

    Greetings all. So Idecided that I wanted to start taking care of my 10,000 gallon pool, and after acouple of weeks of reading (and some experimenting), I think I am starting tounderstand some of the basics. Thatsaid, my pool has relatively high CYA levels (90) - probably reflective of...