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    Wierd issue after Borate addition-now have algae??

    Good morning, I looked through borate posts and could not find someone with this problem, so wanted to pick any brains with ideas. A month back I added borates to my pool, using Natural Chemistry's "Foundation". I added until I got to a level of 50 ppm My pool was resurfaced last year...
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    Pool pump not turning on, NEW, wiring and voltage seem fine, any tips Raypak vsp

    My no name pool pump has been eating up capacitors the last 6 months, I had figured pump motor going out since it was a cheapo ebay one previous owners put in, so been saving for a VSP. Anyways few weeks back it just stopped all together. Tried new capacitor, nothing. NOt even a hum or click...
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    Urgent maybe...might have mixed chemicals too close...mueratic acid and phos free???

    I had to add quart of MA to my 20k pool tonight. I dikuted,poured in deep end, then took garbage out. Without thinking,on way back in, I added my Perfect Weekly prevetative. Now a sweet smell sort of in air. My spa jets were on open, so foamed dome, figured just smelling PW more due to...
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    5 Week old replaster with River Rok, weird phosphate numbers, advice?

    I have a roughly 20K inground River Rok pool. 60 sq ft DE, 2hp pump, big dinosaur of a heater. My water cleared fast after plastering. Alkalinity came down in a weeks time, I let it drift down on its own then the last day before a pool party brought it down to 120 with a short course of...
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    New pool surface, River Rok. Think my pool equipment is oversized

    Hello, learned alot from this site. We bought house last year, first time owning a pool. I thought I saw on this site somewhere a calculator to help you determine equipment size that is best for your situation?? I have a 20,000 gallon chlorine pool. Just had new River Rok, Lucayan Blue surface...