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    Blue water blues

    We are stumped. We're on our fifth year,I think, with our AGP and never had this problem. We live in the woods with a lot of trees around our 33' round AGP. The previous years we never covered the pool even tho I had bought a cover our first season. To avoid the massive clean-up in the...
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    do i need to raise my calcium

    Hello, I went to the pool store today and had them test my water just to compare to my test.They said I needed to add calcium.I thought tat if you had a vinyl liner you didn't have too.But the guy there told me if I didn't the water would leach it and cause wrinkles in our liner.What should I...
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    cloudy/algae?

    I raised the fc to 7 last night and it has held today at the same.the water is still cloudy.How long will it take for it to clear?I have cleaned the filter the past 2 days and it was vaccumed today.Also is it okay to keep the fc at 7all summer or when this clears up should we lower it back to 4...
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    Cloudy/Algae?

    I really think I have some type of algae.I brush the pool and it looks like a cloud,the filter looks a little green to me,and the water has turned cloudy,the is something on the bottom near the edge that gets there everyday in about the same spots.We did the overnite test but the levels didn't...
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    could it be algae

    Hello.Our pool has something on the bottom of it not a lot just a few spots here and there.I think it could be algae,my husband says he thinks its just dirt.The water is clear but when I brush the bottom of the pool and brush over this stuff it makes a small cloud.All of our numbers seem good...
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    TFTest Kit XL100 $10 discount

    Happy New Year! Thanks for all the help gettting our pool started last season. We decided not to close or cover our pool last winter and we have now been swimming for a couple of weeks in clean clear water. It really was a pain but I think it may have been easier than covering it. Thanks...
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    algae

    I'm not sure if it is algae or not.We are having a deck built and it could be saw dust.We haven,t been in the pool in a week but I test the water every day.FC has been 4.5 CC 0 PH 7.5.We have had alot rain .How can I tell if it is algae with out getting in?The water is crystal clear.THX
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    Brand new newbies and poolies.

    :-D Great site. In a couple more hours, we will finally be ready to turn our pump on and start filtering our first pool. We've been filling this thing slowly for two weeks now using our well. I've been very worried about filling with our well system but I believe it has done an outstanding...