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I am not receiving e-mail notifications that there's activity on one of my posts or a thread I'm watching. I'm pretty sure that I've set all required parameters properly and I've checked my SPAM boxes. No e-mail from the Forum although I do receive occasional mail about the test kits. The e-mail...

There's a hole in my liner . . . The water drains about 2" per 24 hrs. It's now down below all fittings and is at about the level we put it when we winterize. We're hoping it stays because that would give us the opportunity to really examine the sides, see if there's a tear at that level. If we...

At the end of June I bought a Pool Blaster Max after doing some reading about their functionality here and elsewhere. I have an AGP which is used primarily as an exercise pool for our dogs. The dirt that doesn't filter out (because it doesn't stay in suspension) is silt, bracts, catkins, other...

The old one is dead. We took it apart as far as we could and found that the shaft won't turn. It's a seven-seasons-old AOS Century Flex 48 1.5 HP 2-speed, model 340206. We've decided to get a Pentair Dynamo 1HP Dual Speed 11.0/2.9A 115V - model 340204. The online vendor is PoolSupplyWorld.com...

My friend has an inground pool. When she vacuums, she removes the skimmer basket and inserts the hose directly into the hole. I find that very convenient, no fussing with seating the plate on the skimmer and putting the hose in and getting a good seal and all that. So I tried it just now on my...

Recently we had a discussion of grocery store bleach vs chlorinating liquid and the relative merits of each in view of concentration and degradation. I buy chlorinating liquid from the pool store in 5 gallon carboys for $14.75 plus tax. It is said to be 12.5% and I don't doubt that's true at...

I'm seeing more and more bamboo groves where I live and am becoming rather fascinated with the stuff. The trees? stalks? stay green all year round which is really nice of them in an area that's in shades of grey and white in winter. From what I've read bamboo sends out runners and spreads...

We opened the pool last weekend. Hooked up the plumbing, tested for leaks, started to add water. We're on a well so the adding will take some days. The drenching rains over the past couple of days have been much appreciated! Today I tested the water for the first time this season. The water...

We frequently get images which are so huge that you have to scroll right to left and up and down just to see the picture. When a large image is posted it skews the subsequent messages in the thread and makes the topic very difficult to read. Is there an option in the forum software which limits...

Can you guess which one is ours? Hint: we use BBB . . .

Since we have such a very large membership I thought I'd give this a try. I need to downsize my "stuff", most notably some family heirloom textiles which have been handed down for 5 or 6 generations. My daughters have no interest or use for them and I feel I have a duty to make them available...

Have you heard about these pools? Refurbished dumpsters in Brooklyn, NY. Check out this blog and this article in the NY Times. They clean up the dumpsters, line them with what appears to be a large tarpaulin, install AGP filtration systems and fill them with 18,000 gallons of water. They set...

I noticed this season three wrinkles in the liner along one wall of the pool. They're running parallel to each other and are fairly long, 3 or 4 feet. The liner appears to be seated firmly on top and the tile pattern hasn't changed. What I mean is, the pattern lines are still straight. This is...

There are two ball valves on the plumbing. One is between the skimmer and the pump and the other is between the return and the pump. Two days ago I needed to check the inline chlorinator, see if it needed to be refilled. I turned off both valves because if I don't, the chlorinator overflows...

On my monitor the images of the slide show on the portal page are located in the lower right quadrant of the blue area and are partially obscured by the "Welcome" bar. I use FireFox on a Mac. Testing with Safari all looks good. Is there a setting in FF that I might need to change to get the...

First, the numbers: FC maintained at 3 - 5 ppm CYA = 30 ph ranges from 7.6 - 7.8 TA dropped from 100 to 80 over the past 4 weeks The pool is being heavily aerated on a daily basis due to two German Shepherd dogs jumping in off the sides. They drag out large amounts of water and I refill...

We've had the solar cover on for about 4 weeks steady. Ours is cut into five sections to facilitate moving it on and off. During the day I remove one section, exposing 1/5 of the water surface to sun and air. Water chemistry has held steady during the cover-on phase and chlorine consumption has...

It isn't so much that I'm really angry - I am that. It's more that I walked out of both places depressed and disillusioned by unhelpful, unknowledgeable and just plain rude pool store employees. I use the TF-100 daily. My numbers are pH 7.5 (for the past 8 weeks), FC 5-6, CC 0, TA 80, CH 50...

This isn't about our pool but about our well. If the BBB Method isn't the right place to post this, please move it to a more appropriate sub-board. We have a 450' deep well with the water level at 260'. The well water contains hydrogen sulfide which makes the water smell really REALLY bad...

If I understand this correctly, we are to subtract 1/3 of the CYA reading in ppm from the TA reading to get 'actual' or 'functional' or adjusted TA. I had never heard of this rule but now it seems it's everywhere I look. That explains the "adjusted alkalinity" I've seen on water test printouts...

Not kidding. About an inch above the water line there are insect eggs, those thin rod-shaped waxy things, less than 1 mm long. White. BILLIONS of them! Ok, maybe not that many, I didn't count. I did, however, swish water at them and sure enough, they come off real easy and then float on the...

The spell check function has apparently disappeared with the recent upgrade. Although the forms window where we type in the message does still recognize misspellings, we no longer have the opportunity to run a spell checker before we post. MMQ suggested we use the spell checker in the Google...

One of our new members, wsettle, recently posted images of a swim harness he built in this thread. I had never heard of a swim harness but was immediately enamoured by the idea of being able to swim laps in my 33' pool without getting dizzy from the frequent turns. An Internet search produced a...

This is a heads up to check your timer every so often, if you have one. We have the Intermatic T101R, set with two screw-on tabs, one to turn it on, the other to turn it off. One of these tabs tends to work itself loose, probably from the physical vibration when the timer sets itself and the...

There's a very small leak in my pump pot, the occasional drop, maybe one every 90 seconds. It hasn't affected pump operation on low speed but on high speed, especially when I vacuum, there's some bubble action in the pot and tiny air bubbles coming out the return. My question is: is there a...

Maybe it's the shirt you're wearing? A couple of days ago I was testing FC and CC. At what I thought should be the titration endpoint I still had a very slight pink tint in the cylinder. Adding another drop of reagent didn't make it go away and neither did the second and third drop. I know just...

I had a recipe for cole slaw dressing some years ago that called for buttermilk as the base. Lost it :( Might anyone have one you'd be willing to share?

Probably you already know this but I thought I'd post it anyway. I use sodium percarbonate powder in my laundry and for certain cleaning chores around the house. Some people use it when converting a BaquaX pool. It's an excellent compound for cleaning grungy BBQ tools or removing burned on...

After several years of intensive research we at Ellerbach Pools are pleased to introduce a revolutionary product to assist you in aerating your pool water, mixing in chemicals, and stirring up that annoying precipitate on the bottom of your pool, too often confused with mustard algae but in...

For those members and visitors who may not know this, Jason's Pool Calculator works offline, too, meaning you don't need to be connected to your ISP to use it. This is very helpful when your ISP is once again down - like RCN is, more often than not. Open the Pool Calculator, then go to...