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Brisbane floods have subsided, and cyclone Yasi has passed (though many in Queensland have lost everything, and Victoria is still copping damage). Yasi was similar in size and intensity to Katrina, but fortunately the areas it crossed were less populated and less vulnerable than with Katrina...

I suppose everyone heard about the devastating Brisbane Floods http://tinyurl.com/4dxfkk8. Fortunately where we live was not flooded, but many homes (let alone pools) in low lying areas were inundated with muddy water and will take a lot of work to recover. However, while we were free of...

Pool has had minimum attention over winter but summer is coming and I've had my first couple of swims. From now on it becomes increasingly important to maintain chemical balance to avoid runaway algae, staining etc. We recently had serious rain which seriously overflowed the pool so I tossed in...

Hi All, This is a follow-on from my previous posts about stains on the walls of my pool. After searching all over I decided that the only way I could get a bulk quantity of chlorine, unmixed with stabiliser, was to buy 25 litres of liquid chlorine from a local pool shop. They were unable to...

Hi All, My new test kit arrived from Palintest Australia this morning. Now that I can perform the required tests I have promoted myself from the Just Getting Started forum to this one. Results this morning's tests, with the new kit, are: pH- 7.6 (evaporation had dropped the water level...

Hi All, I've been lurking around this forum for a while and it seems a really helpful source of information. I thought I would start out by introducing myself. Firstly, I live Brisbane Australia (which means I use metric measurements). Brisbane has a sub-tropical climate with typical winter...