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I have a 16' above ground pool that year after year I've battled tons of pollen from a nearby tree. Keeping the water crystal clear becomes a full time job for the first half of every swimming season, and our swimming season is short because mid august the pool falls into the 50's in temp :(...

Looking for some advice. Using sand filter as shown in my signature. We have a pool that's unfortunately partially positioned under a big tree. We have also had iron problems in the past with the well water. About a week ago we finally passed the OCLT and I've kept the chlorine high all week...

Hi all. I struggled with a SLAM getting much of anything done last month with my crappy Intex paper filter so we recently switched to a sand filter and our pool is no longer cloudy and our overnight chlorine tests were dropping less than 1ppm overnight, so we stopped with 12 FC. But now every...

So I have an Intex 5,000 gal above ground pool that's vinyl and I think even the frame is partially plastic or PVC. The original pump was outdoor/didn't require bonding (according to the manual). My new pump has a bonding lead. It's on a GFCI circuit, and I've concluded that we will still turn...

So I'm not new to tfp and it's been a great few years with my hot tub and one year with the above ground pool. We opened the pool for the season, refilled the missing water. Rebalanced and SLAM'D while running water through a polyfill bucket to remove iron. The water slowly got more and more...

So I have this problem in the past but had retired my hot tub a few years ago and hadn't thought about it until I got a brand new hot tub which I'm using now. Got all the chemicals balanced, 7.4 pH, 8 free chlorine, 40 CYA, 60 TA Usually at night I'll add enough chlorine to bring it up to 10...

Hi All, Been loving our pool this summer since I had help with the Iron issue a month or two ago. Recently I've discovered that in the sunlight, i can see the bottom steps of our ladder appear just ever so slightly cloudy. Probably wouldn't even notice it without the ladder. FC 10 PH 7.5 CYA...

5000 Gal Chlorine Pool, very nice since we got rid of the iron! We're going on a vacation for a week. Currently CYA is at 50, and we use liquid chlorine. Should I consider Trichlor tabs in a floater for the week? If so, how many? Or should I just bring FC to 20 and hope that lasts a week...

I have some Dry Acid (which I know, I'll be switching to Muriatic when I can get my hands on some), and the bottle from walmart says pretty plainly, don't pre-mix, add directly to water. Well, I don't know if I didn't wait long enough after adding chlorine but the smell that came up off that was...

We got a 5,000 gallon pool, and we filled it via hose. I didn't know at the time that it was well water (setting it up at the grandparents and I thought they were on city water). As it was filling I started prepping the water for the chemicals it would eventually need. Added chlorine and some...